Cloud Engineer - SME
About the role
The Cloud Engineer - SME will design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud architectures using AWS services. They will also design and develop databases, configure CI/CD pipelines, and perform ongoing maintenance.
Responsibilities
- design a scalable, secure, and highly available cloud architecture using AWS services.
- use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform to create and manage infrastructure.
- set up a development, test, and production environments, including AWS accounts, CI/CD pipelines, and version control systems.
- design and develop databases, including schema design, data modeling, and data migration.
- configure CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment and testing.
- develop the application.
- deploy the application to the production environment.
- set up monitoring and logging tools to track application performance and identify issues.
- perform ongoing maintenance, including bug fixes, security patches, and performance optimizations.
- maintain documentation and perform knowledge transfer to ensure a smooth handover.
Requirements
- Clearance Level: Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph
- Subject Matter Expert Skill Level
- AWS Cloud Expertise and familiarity with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB.
- Solution Architecture in designing scalable, secure, and highly available cloud architectures.
- Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or AWS CodePipeline.
- Programming skills in Java, Python, Node.js, C#, or Go.
- Database design, development of database tables, views, queries, and management, including complex relational databases, SQL databases in RDS, and NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB, MongoDB).
- Front-end Development skills, with expertise in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue.js.
- Experience working in an Agile environment.
Qualifications
The Candidate shall possess and provide the following required skills and demonstrated experience:
- Clearance Level: Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph
- Subject Matter Expert Skill Level
Skills
- Clearance Level: Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph
- Subject Matter Expert Skill Level
- AWS Cloud Expertise and be familiar with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lamda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB as examples.
- Solution Architecture in designing scalable, secure and highly available cloud architectures.
- Solution Architecture in designing scalable, secure and highly available cloud architectures.
- Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or AWS CodePipeline.
- programming skills in Java, Python, Node.js, C#, or Go.
- database design, development of database tables, views, queries, and management, including complex relational databases, SQL databases in RDS, (e.g., PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB, MongoDB).
- Front-end Development skills, with expertise in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue.js.
- experience working in an Agile environment.
Benefits
- 5 weeks of Paid Leave
- Health Insurance: Medical, Dental, & Vision
- Generous Training Budget
- Employee Referral Bonus
- Business Development / Growth Incentives
- Opportunities for Paid Training/Certifications and Education
Pay
TBD
Schedule
Full Time
Why Pendulum
At Pendulum, we set an industry standard of doing right by our people so we can do right by our clients. We generously offer:
- 5 weeks of Paid Leave
- Health Insurance: Medical, Dental, & Vision
- Generous Training Budget
- Employee Referral Bonus
- Business Development / Growth Incentives
- Opportunities for Paid Training/Certifications and Education
Application Deadline
August 20, 2025
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Equal Opportunity Employer
Pendulum is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Pendulum is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws.
Drug-Free Workplace
Pendulum maintains a drug-free workplace and may perform pre-employment substance abuse testing, where required by contract and permitted by law.