Cloud Engineer – Mid-Level
Job Description:
- Design and implement foundational DevSecOps CI/CD pipeline architecture using GitHub Actions for tenant onboarding automation
- Automate tenant workspace provisioning and IaC-based onboarding workflows using Terraform and Databricks Asset Bundles
- Enforce code quality, dependency scanning, policy-as-code, approval gates, and full audit trails
- Implement secure environment promotion through development, testing, and production
- Support 24x7 CI/CD pipeline monitoring and failure remediation
- Maintain the Platform Operations Runbook and IaC Baselines
- Ensure provisioning pipelines meet the 10-business-day SLA to support tenant satisfaction
- Manage AWS cloud environments, including EKS, Lambda, S3, IAM, and VPC networking
- Maintain CI/CD pipelines and optimize platform performance and costs
- Support high availability, scalability, security, and 24x7 operations for mission-critical federal platforms
- Apply blue/green and canary deployment strategies
Requirements:
- 7+ years of hands-on AWS cloud engineering
- Active Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) is mandatory; candidates in process do not qualify
- U.S. Citizenship required
- Must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and be able to obtain a government-granted security clearance
- Expert-level Terraform for automated IaC provisioning and management
- DevSecOps CI/CD pipeline design using GitHub Actions with SAST/DAST/secrets scanning
- Experience with Databricks Asset Bundles for workspace deployment automation
- Strong proficiency with EKS, Lambda, S3, IAM, and VPC networking
- Experience with blue/green and canary deployment strategies
- Willingness to support 24x7 on-call, including off-hours deployment windows
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools: Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs
- Current or recent IRS contract experience strongly preferred
- Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, or GCP) nice to have
- Experience with monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana
- Knowledge of microservices architecture
- Experience with automated testing and deployment strategies
- Subject to background investigation, including criminal history, employment and education verification, drug testing, and creditworthiness
Benefits:
- Military Veterans are highly encouraged to apply
- 24x7 on-call support including off-hours deployment windows
- Opportunity to support mission-critical federal platforms
- AWS DevOps Engineer Professional or AWS Certified Developer preferred
- Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, or GCP) nice to have
- Employment contingent upon contract award and funding