Cloud/System Engineering Lead – Senior

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

📋 Description

• Oversee engineering support for cloud operations, enterprise systems, and hybrid-cloud services.

• Design secure, high-availability, and fault-tolerant cloud solutions that meet USMEPCOM mission objectives.

• Set up, monitor, and resolve issues related to VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, and secure connectivity across cloud, on-premises, DISA-hosted, continuity, and remote setups.

• Develop cloud DNS services, elastic load balancers, API gateways and integrations, as well as manage digital certificates.

• Track cloud availability, performance, capacity, cost, and operational risks.

• Troubleshoot cloud, network, API, DNS, certificate, compute, and storage problems.

• Provide high-level technical support during outages and coordinate diagnosis, mitigation, restoration, and validation efforts.

• Direct installations, upgrades, migrations, component refreshes, and deployments, including planning for implementation, testing, and rollback.

• Maintain records for assets, configurations, lifecycle, architecture, certificates, APIs, and SOPs.

• Create automation and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, or similar tools.

• Integrate cloud functionalities with VMware, software-defined data centers, COOP, and on-premises settings.

• Design capabilities for backup, disaster recovery, and continuity.

• Assess requirements, estimate costs, and draft operational concepts, architecture documents, engineering designs, and service design packages.

• Adhere to DISA STIGs, DoD security protocols, IAVAs, CND Directives, and RMF requirements.

• Manage escalation processes with AWS, DISA, and vendors.

• Coach cloud engineers, systems engineers, and administrators.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• At least eight (8) years of pertinent experience in cloud engineering, systems engineering, systems architecture, infrastructure engineering, or enterprise IT.

• Valid AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer certification is mandatory.

• Active Secret clearance or higher is required.

• Proven experience leading cloud or systems engineering initiatives in a federal or DoD context, including AWS GovCloud or other government-approved clouds.

• Advanced proficiency with Amazon VPC, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, API Gateway, AWS Certificate Manager, and AWS monitoring and security services.

• Experience in planning cloud migrations, infrastructure refreshes, and modernization, as well as developing resilient hybrid architectures.

• Familiarity with Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Python, PowerShell, or Bash, and VMware vSphere, vSAN, NSX, SRM, or VMware Cloud Foundation.

• Knowledge of DISA STIGs, DoD RMF, NIST controls, IAVA requirements, CND Directives, and ATO support.

• Strong skills in technical leadership, architecture, vendor management, and stakeholder communication.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote working opportunity.

• Availability for after-hours support may be necessary during outages, maintenance windows, deployments, migrations, and infrastructure refresh activities.

• Chance to provide engineering leadership and mentorship.

• Reasonable accommodations available for individuals with disabilities.

• Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer.