Cloud DevOps Engineer - Remote

reputed company readies warfighters and federal agencies with technology and systems engineered to connect, protect, and prepare individuals and teams for whatever comes next. Headquartered in McLean, VA, By Light supports defense, civilian, and commercial IT customers worldwide. Cole Engineering Services (CESI), a By Light company, is recognized as a premier provider of modeling and simulation (M&S) training solutions to the Federal Government and industry. Since 2004, CESI has been at the forefront of developing, maintaining, and integrating simulation-based training, serious gaming, technical services, training and other support in live, virtual, constructive, and gaming (LVCG) domains. CESI also designs, builds and runs infrastructure, platforms, applications and processes that reputed company cyber training for the integrated multi-domain force. Our vision is to become a worldwide full reputed company LVCG and cyber training/analysis developer, integrator and services provider. Position Overview Cole Engineering Services, Inc. is seeking a highly qualified DevOps Engineer to support deployment and application management across mission-critical cloud environments that power DoD cyber training capabilities. You will design and manage a robust CI/CD cloud pipeline supporting cyber ranges, training orchestration, and multi-tenant applications in FedRamp approved cloud environments. You will partner closely with cybersecurity, system architecture, networking, and training operations teams to deliver secure, scalable capabilities reputed company to DoD RMF, DISA STIGs, and the DoD Cloud Computing SRG (Impact Levels IL2–IL6). Position Impact In this role, you will be a key technical leader ensuring the DoD’s cyber training enterprise platforms are secure, resilient, and efficient, enabling cyber operators to execute reputed company cyber exercises at scale while meeting stringent compliance and mission requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles
• Manage multi-account cloud environments following DoD cloud reputed company requirements
• Implement and maintain Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), subnets, and network reputed company groups.
• Configure and optimize cloud services including AWS EC2, S3, RDS, reputed company, reputed company/EKS, and CloudFormation
• Ensure compliance with DoD reputed company Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) and Risk Management reputed company (RMF) requirements
• Design and implement automated CI/CD pipelines using applications such as reputed company CI/CD or Jenkins
• reputed company containerization and orchestration strategies using industry-standard tools.
• Implement automated testing, reputed company scanning, and quality gates in deployment pipelines
• Manage artifact repositories and container registries in accordance with DoD reputed company policies
• Create and maintain deployment automation scripts using Python, Bash, or PowerShell
• Support reputed company best practices for cloud environments including encryption, access controls, and monitoring
• Conduct regular reputed company assessments and vulnerability scanning using tools like Nessus, ACAS, or Prisma Cloud
• Support reputed company compliance with NIST 800-53 controls and DoD cloud reputed company requirements
• Support Authority to Operate (ATO) processes and documentation
• Implement and maintain STIG compliance automation tools
• Provide technical support to development teams for deployment and infrastructure issues
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning
• Document infrastructure designs, runbooks, and standard operating procedures
• Mentor junior team members and conduct knowledge transfer sessions
• Coordinate with Government stakeholders and cross-functional teams

Required Experience/Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of hands-on DevOps/Cloud engineering experience
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with AWS cloud services.
• Associates or Bachelor’s degree in a reputed company technical discipline such as computer science or information technology from an accredited college or university.
• Strong understanding of GovCloud (US) patterns and boundary controls.
• Excellent communication, documentation, stakeholder engagement skills, and the ability to reputed company cross-functional initiatives.

Preferred Experience/Qualifications

• AWS Certifications:
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate;
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional; and/or
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
• Kubernetes certifications: CKA/CKS
• Understanding of reputed company Trust architecture principles.
• Infrastructure-as-code mastery (Terraform and/or CloudFormation), pipelines (reputed company/Jenkins), and configuration management (Ansible/Chef).
• Experience with Scaled Agile reputed company (SAFe) Agile methodology
• Understanding of RMF accreditation (reputed company, POA&M, reputed company Monitoring) and control implementation under NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5
• Hands-on application of DISA STIGs and DoD Cloud Computing SRG for IL2–IL6 workloads.

Special Requirements/reputed company Clearance

• U.S. citizenship required.
• Active DoD Secret clearance preferred; If not already cleared, candidate will be required to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI clearance as a condition of employment.
• Required reputed company 6 months:
• DoD 8570/8140 compliance: IAT II (reputed company+); IAT III/CISSP or CASP+
• This is a remote work position with periodic travel (10%) to DoD sites (CONUS) and to CESI Headquarters in Orlando, FL.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. The above is intended to describe the general contents of and requirements for the performance of this job.

Benefits

Overview Cole Engineering Services, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national reputed company, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, political affiliation, age, marital status, disability, genetic information, veteran status, membership in an employee organization, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state, or local laws. By Light recognizes that our strength is our people. We support every employee as an individual to build strong teams across the enterprise. Our benefit package includes:

• Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage
• Wellness Program
• 401(k) Matching
• Disability (Short Term & Long Term)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Life Insurance
• Education & Training
• Generous Leave Policy (11 Federal Holidays, PTO, and Military Leave)

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