[Remote] Lead Cloud Platform Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DecisionPoint seeks a Lead Cloud Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain an IL5-compliant cloud platform foundation supporting a large federal and DoD-aligned mission environment. The role provides technical leadership for cloud landing zones, shared services, Infrastructure-as-Code templates, secure enterprise environments, DevSecOps integrations, and scalable deployment patterns while ensuring compliance with federal cloud security requirements.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain IL5-compliant cloud landing zones and enterprise cloud environments
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) templates using Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent
- Manage shared cloud services including networking, IAM, encryption, monitoring, logging, and DevSecOps integrations
- Establish reusable deployment patterns used by all application development teams
- Engineer secure VPC designs, cross-account architecture, segmentation, and network policy enforcement
- Ensure compliance with IL5 requirements, RMF controls, Zero Trust principles, and DoD cloud security standards
- Oversee platform performance, reliability, and scalability, implementing improvements as required
- Support DevSecOps pipelines with cloud-ready configurations and automated deployment integration
- Troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructure issues across networking, compute, storage, and identity layers
- Optimize platform resource utilization, cost models, and scaling strategies
- Produce architecture diagrams, IaC documentation, platform standards, and operational best practices
- Mentor cloud engineers and support cross-team collaboration on cloud modernization and engineering efforts
Skills
- Must hold an active Top Secret clearance, supported by a Tier 5 background investigation
- Bachelor's degree in Cloud Computing, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- Minimum 10 years of experience designing and engineering cloud infrastructure solutions
- Experience building and maintaining IL5 or other secure federal cloud environments
- Extensive experience developing Infrastructure-as-Code templates and reusable deployment patterns
- Experience leading cloud modernization or platform engineering initiatives for enterprise systems
- Deep expertise with AWS GovCloud services and IL5 cloud architecture patterns
- Strong proficiency with Terraform, CloudFormation, or other IaC tools
- Knowledge of secure networking, VPC architecture, segmentation, and cross-account access
- Strong understanding of RMF, STIGs, Zero Trust cloud requirements, and federal security controls
- Experience with monitoring, observability, and cloud logging platforms
- CompTIA Security+
- Strong leadership and architectural decision-making ability
- Excellent communication skills for collaboration across engineering, cybersecurity, and product teams
- High attention to detail and strong documentation discipline
- Ability to troubleshoot complex, multi-layer cloud issues in secure environments
- Ability to design and maintain reusable, scalable, and secure cloud platform components
- Experience with Kubernetes (EKS), container runtimes, or modern application hosting patterns
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps tooling
- Experience integrating cloud platforms with SIEM and enterprise monitoring systems
- AWS Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional
- ITIL v4 Foundation
- Advanced cloud or cybersecurity certifications
Benefits
- This position is fully remote.
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