Cloud Engineer – Mid-Level

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design and establish essential DevSecOps CI/CD pipeline architecture utilizing GitHub Actions for automating tenant onboarding.

• Automate tenant workspace setup and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) onboarding workflows with Terraform and Databricks Asset Bundles.

• Enforce standards for code quality, dependency scanning, policy-as-code, approval gates, and comprehensive audit trails.

• Facilitate secure environment transitions through the development, testing, and production stages.

• Provide 24x7 monitoring and remediation support for the CI/CD pipeline.

• Maintain the Platform Operations Runbook and IaC Baselines.

• Ensure provisioning pipelines adhere to a 10-business-day SLA to enhance tenant satisfaction.

• Oversee AWS cloud environments, including EKS, Lambda, S3, IAM, and VPC networking.

• Manage CI/CD pipelines to enhance platform performance and reduce costs.

• Ensure high availability, scalability, security, and continuous operations for mission-critical federal platforms.

• Implement blue/green and canary deployment methodologies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of practical experience in AWS cloud engineering.

• Active Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) is required; candidates currently undergoing this process are not eligible.

• U.S. Citizenship is a necessity.

• Must fulfill eligibility criteria for classified information access and be capable of obtaining a government-issued security clearance.

• Expertise in Terraform for automated IaC provisioning and management.

• Experience in designing DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions with SAST/DAST/secrets scanning.

• Familiarity with Databricks Asset Bundles for automating workspace deployments.

• Strong skills in EKS, Lambda, S3, IAM, and VPC networking.

• Experience with blue/green and canary deployment techniques.

• Willingness to provide 24x7 on-call support, including during off-hours deployment times.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.

• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code tools: Terraform, CloudFormation, and ARM/Bicep.

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps.

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

• Solid understanding of networking principles: TCP/IP, DNS, and VPNs.

• Current or recent experience with IRS contracts is strongly preferred.

• Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, or GCP) are advantageous.

• Experience with monitoring solutions such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana.

• Knowledge of microservices architecture.

• Background in automated testing and deployment strategies.

• Subject to background checks, including criminal history, employment and education verification, drug testing, and credit assessment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Military Veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.

• 24x7 on-call support, including during off-hours deployment windows.

• Opportunity to work on mission-critical federal platforms.

• AWS DevOps Engineer Professional or AWS Certified Developer certification is preferred.

• Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, or GCP) are advantageous.

• Employment is contingent upon contract award and funding.