Senior Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities

• Designing, deploying, and maintaining secure hybrid-cloud architectures and IL6 cloud environments (e.g., AWS GovCloud or Azure Government).
• Developing and maintaining modern Infrastructure as Code (IaC) pipelines to programmatically spin up secure, isolated network environments.
• Utilizing pre-accredited containers (e.g., Platform One’s Iron Bank) to build, deploy, and manage hardware-agnostic microservices and containerized applications.
• Architecting and maintaining automated multi-modal Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) pipelines using tools like Apache Kafka to process high-volume datasets.
• Implementing and managing automated DevSecOps Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to support rapid, iterative software delivery.
• Designing data ingestion architectures utilizing log forwarders (e.g., Elastic or Fluentd) and integrating high-performance visualization tools (e.g., Grafana or Kibana).
• Allocating heavy, non-real-time workloads to the cloud while optimizing edge nodes for latency-sensitive tactical processing.
• Documenting cloud architectures, automated deployment playbooks, and system configurations clearly and concisely.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Information Technology, or a similar technical field from an ABET-accredited program, or 10 + years of relevant experience.
• Proven experience with enterprise cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure.
• Hands-on experience with DevSecOps methodologies, containerization technologies, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and automation scripting.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience with DoD cloud security requirements, specifically Impact Level 6 (IL6) environments and the Risk Management Framework (RMF).
• Experience working with Platform One's Iron Bank or similar DoW-approved software building blocks.
• Familiarity with high-volume data streaming and pipeline tools such as Apache Kafka.
• Experience in the defense industry, specifically supporting complex simulation, Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) environments, or tactical networks.

Pay

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Benefits

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