Overview
On Site
USD 80,001.00 - 120,000.00 per year
Full Time
Skills
Security Clearance
Software Development
DevOps
Virtual Machines
Billing
Security Controls
Configuration Management
WAF
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon Route 53
Shell Scripting
Command-line Interface
Scripting
Leadership
Reporting
Solution Architecture
Customization
Emerging Technologies
Network
Storage
Cloud Computing
Continuous Delivery
Management
IaaS
Terraform
Windows PowerShell
Python
Orchestration
Hardening
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
Information Technology
Systems Engineering
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Job Details
Job ID: 2510397
Location: WASHINGTON, DC, US
Date Posted: 2025-10-03
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: No
Description
As a Cloud engineer, you'll use your experience to architect, build, and design solutions that integrate public Cloud services. You will incorporate techniques like Infrastructure as Code to ensure repeatable deployment of resources. You'll provide expertise in the use of Cloud reference architectures and solutions to support software development in a DevOps environment. You should have excellent troubleshooting skills, stay current with industry trends, and should be a team player.
This is a fully ONSITE role in Washington, DC
Job Role Specific Requirements:
Qualifications
Top Qualifications, Skills, Experience or Certifications:
Preferred skills and qualifications:
Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
Location: WASHINGTON, DC, US
Date Posted: 2025-10-03
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: No
Description
As a Cloud engineer, you'll use your experience to architect, build, and design solutions that integrate public Cloud services. You will incorporate techniques like Infrastructure as Code to ensure repeatable deployment of resources. You'll provide expertise in the use of Cloud reference architectures and solutions to support software development in a DevOps environment. You should have excellent troubleshooting skills, stay current with industry trends, and should be a team player.
This is a fully ONSITE role in Washington, DC
Job Role Specific Requirements:
- Creating/updating cloud environment configurations 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 control.
- 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.
- Understanding of shell scripting and executing commands via the command line.
- Designing and building out automation platforms utilizing Infrastructure as Code methodologies - preferred skills are CloudFormation and/or Terraform, scripting capabilities with PowerShell and Python.
- Supporting and completing requests for operational support to include communicating level of effort and status to cloud leadership team.
- Supporting data calls for resources provisioned within the cloud environment and reporting out status of resources.
- Identifying and communicating opportunities for improving agency security posture within cloud environments.
- Collaborating with external development teams to understand cloud workload solution architecture within agency AWS/Azure environment.
Qualifications
Top Qualifications, Skills, Experience or Certifications:
- 5 years experience deploying/configuring application workloads within Microsoft Azure Commercial Cloud or AWS Cloud.
- Demonstrated understanding of principals supporting infrastructure components including compute, network, and storage, with 7 years total hands-on experience in technology.
- Demonstrated understanding of principals configurating and supporting application workloads within the Azure or AWS Cloud.
Preferred skills and qualifications:
- Strong understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices across cloud service providers.
- Experience assessing, customizing, troubleshooting, optimizing, and maintaining current and emerging technologies, platforms, and applications to help ensure greater security and efficiencies, covering network, compute and storage principals.
- Experience with cloud orchestration tools and continuous delivery processes to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure for customers to consume.
- Demonstrated proficiency in automating processes with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Packer, PowerShell, or Python, including use of remote APIs.
- Experience working with containers and container orchestration systems and hardening practices.
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate and/or Azure Administrator Associate certifications or higher.
Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
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