AWS Cloud Engineer

Job ID: 2506053

Location: REMOTE WORK, VA, US

Date Posted: 2025-05-23

Category: Information Technology

Subcategory: Cloud Comp Engr

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time

Minimum Clearance Required: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust

Potential for Remote Work: Yes

Description

SAIC is seeking a AWS Cloud Engineer supporting a growing federal financial program. This individual will have to have experience in a multi-cloud environment.

Responsibilities Include:

• Develop and design cloud solutions (within AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform and OCI) and Design/build solutions, and processes to deploy, operate, and maintain resilient secure Cloud environments to enable development teams to deliver features in the most efficient way possible.
• Operate and maintain cloud environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and SRE principles.
• Maintenance and ongoing development of automation and continuous build/integration/deployment infrastructure for multiple environments; write, build and deploy scripts.
• Enable observability and resilience throughout multi-cloud landing zones and Dev/Test/Prod environments.
• Support implementation of security policies, standards, guidelines, and governance.
• Continuously assess, onboard, and enable new FedRAMP cloud services using security best practices for IAM and networking.
• Optimize cloud performance, security, and cost-efficiency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align cloud strategies with business objectives.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's and five years or more of related experience. Master's and three or more years of related experience.(4 years experience in lieu of degree)
• Proven background working in cloud environments with experience and knowledge in 4 or more of the following areas:
  • Project Management methodologies including Scrum or Agile
  • Agile collaboration tools such as Atlassian Jira, Confluence
  • CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, Bitbucket, Artifactory)
  • CSPs including Azure, AWS, OCI, or Google Cloud Platform
  • Containerization and container management with Kubernetes and Helm
  • Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation
  • Git, branching strategies, GitFlow and/or GitHub Flow
  • Cloud high availability and scalability best practices and architectures
  • Disaster Recovery planning and implementation in cloud environments
  • Experience designing and implementing landing zone architectures in cloud environments, including multi-account strategies, network segmentation, and security controls.

Desired:

• Professional cloud certifications from multiple cloud service providers (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect)
• Experience with multi-cloud and hybrid cloud architectures.
• Familiarity with federal government compliance standards and frameworks (e.g., FISMA, FedRAMP, NIST, Cloud Smart Strategy, etc.)
• Experience with Zero Trust architecture principles and implementation in cloud environments.
• Experience with Identity Principles and Access Management at large/enterprise scale.
• Understanding of Cloud Network principles

Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.