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Cloud Engineer Principal

Washington, DC, US • Posted 3 hours ago • Updated 3 hours ago

Full Time

On-site

USD $160,001.00 - 200,000.00 per year

SAIC

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Skills

Security Clearance
Data Migration
IaaS
Oracle Cloud
OCI
Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud
Writing
Regulatory Compliance
Finance
High Availability
Amazon RDS
Remote Desktop Services
Sprint
DevOps
FedRAMP
Management
Agile Management
User Stories
Use Cases
Strategic Management
Cloud Computing
Microsoft Azure
Virtual Machines
Billing
Security Controls
Amazon Web Services
Network
Configuration Management
WAF
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon Route 53
Information Technology
Systems Engineering
FOCUS

Security Clearance
Data Migration
IaaS
Oracle Cloud
OCI
Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud
Writing
Regulatory Compliance
Finance
High Availability
Amazon RDS
Remote Desktop Services
Sprint
DevOps
FedRAMP
Management
Agile Management
User Stories
Use Cases
Strategic Management
Cloud Computing
Microsoft Azure
Virtual Machines
Billing
Security Controls
Amazon Web Services
Network
Configuration Management
WAF
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon Route 53
Information Technology
Systems Engineering
FOCUS

Summary

Job ID: 2614650

Location: Washington, DC, US

Date Posted: 2026-07-16

Category: Information Technology

Subcategory: Cloud Comp Engr

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: No

Minimum Clearance Required: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE

Description

Job Summary

SAIC is looking to hire a Principal Cloud Engineer to support our government customer. This resource will be responsible for managing cloud environments, possessing extensive skills and knowledge in cloud service provider selection, implementation techniques, application data migration techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements.

In addition to the duties required of a Cloud Engineer, a Cloud Engineer SME will provides technical, managerial, and administrative direction for problem definition, analysis, requirements development and implementation for complex to extremely complex systems within cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications, Skills, Experience or Certifications:

12+ years experience in information technology WITH 8+ years of focused, HANDS-ON experience deploying/configuring workloads within EITHER AWS or Azure - preferred experience is DevOps focused
Hands-on experience installing, configuring, upgrading FinOps tools like Kion in AWS environments.
Experience in setting up Kion organizational units and account schemes, projects, linking Kion with Cloud Service Providers such as AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Google Cloud Provider (Google Cloud Platform)
Hands-on expertise writing CloudFormation Infrastructure as Code templates for infrastructure deployment.
Hands-on experience with AWS Billing Conductor and Cost Explorer
Proven track record of identifying AWS resource waste.
Experience authoring Account, Subscriptions etc., Kion compliance scores and financial guardrails.
Experience with Kion for tracking cost allocation for resources such as container, ALB, RDS
Experience managing and scaling applications inside AWS ECS clusters.
Proficient in configuring Application Load Balancers for high availability.
Experience scaling, patching, and optimizing RDS instances.
Experience participation in daily scrums, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
Proven ability to work cross-functionally with DevOps and Cloud teams
Good understanding of FedRAMP services and best practices for their consumption
Experience managing AWS Public and GovCloud across regions
Demonstrated understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices across cloud service providers
Knowledge of Agile Project Management methodologies
Experience documenting requirements, user stories, and use cases
Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and team environment
Professional Architect Certification within EITHER AWS or Azure

Job Role Specific Requirements:

Producing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or Configuration as Code (CaC), delivering solutions with a code first approach with sufficient comments and structure
Collaborating with engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions
Diagnosing and resolving complex performance, security, and/or technical challenges
Supporting all tiers of applications deployed in the cloud, configuring network, cloud native services, infrastructure, and privileges for development teams
Identifying opportunities for optimizing cloud consumption by the agency and providing strategic direction for addressing those opportunities
Creating/updating cloud environment configurations within Kion to establish/support application workloads, including
- Azure Focused: Configuration of Subscriptions, Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, load balancers, App Services, Azure Batch, Virtual Machines, resource tagging, billing, policy implementation, and security controls
- AWS Focused: Configuration of AWS Accounts, IAM Users and Roles, VPCs, subnets, load balancers, Network routes, Transit Gateway, Control Tower, Systems Manager, Config Manager, stack sets, WAF, CloudFront, and Route53

Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.

Dice Id: 10111346
Position Id: 2614650
Posted 3 hours ago

Company Info

About SAIC

SAIC® is a premier mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, intelligence, and civilian markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services, and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

We are approximately 23,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.3 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.

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