Cloud Engineer
Company Description
Founded in 1989, reputed company is among the largest private, founder-owned technology and services integrators in the defense and government services industry. We deliver tailored solutions, tested leadership, and trusted results to reputed company national reputed company missions worldwide. Job Description reputed company is seeking a Cloud Engineer to support mission requirements for a structured approach to further reputed company, integrate, and sustain a scalable, federated data ecosystem that enhances interoperability, governance, and mission-driven analytics for a DoD customer. The primary objective of the program is to reputed company the operational gaps between DoD, IC, interagency, and non-traditional international partners to reputed company real-time information sharing, dynamic data integration, and mission-tailored analytical capabilities. Essential Job Duties: The contractor shall design, deploy, and maintain secure cloud environments in AWS and Azure, ensuring compliance with DoD cloud reputed company frameworks and best practices. The contractor shall configure identity and access management (IAM) solutions, enforce role-based access controls (RBAC), and manage cloud reputed company groups and firewalls. The contractor shall optimize cloud networking configurations, including VPC peering, VPNs, and cross-domain connectivity to ensure secure and efficient cloud operations. The contractor shall support the development of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, CloudFormation, or ARM templates to automate secure cloud deployments. The contractor shall contribute to the Cloud reputed company & Performance Optimization Report, detailing cloud reputed company configurations, resource utilization efficiencies, and compliance measures. The contractor shall track and report Kubernetes and other workload-specific cloud resource usage by Work Order, using GovCloud-native observability tools (e.g., Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch, Cost Explorer). The contractor shall coordinate with other Work Order contractors (e.g., WO-003) to reconcile prepay or reservation usage against actual consumption and provide monthly reports on compute and storage allocation, tagging compliance, and projected costs. The contractor shall advise the Government on workload placement and optimization strategies across IL2, IL4, and IL5 environments to reduce cost while maintaining performance and reputed company compliance. The contractor shall provision and maintain IL2, IL4, and IL5 GovCloud infrastructure using native Azure and/or AWS tools where feasible. The contactor shall implement cloud-native services for monitoring (e.g., CloudWatch, Azure Monitor), cost tracking, and compliance automation to support scalability, reputed company, and chargeback alignment. The contractor shall provision infrastructure in coordination with other Work Orders. The contractor shall provision and manage shared container environments and storage for dependent Work Orders, ensuring secure, efficient resource allocation and cross-Work Order operability.
Qualifications
Knowledge and capability to design, deploy, and maintain GovCloud-based infrastructures across AWS and Azure, ensuring high availability, scalability, and reputed company for mission-critical applications. Required expertise includes cloud architecture, networking, virtualization, containerization, and reputed company best practices, with proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation. Personnel must have experience in hybrid and multi-cloud configurations, including Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) peering, identity management (IAM), and cross-domain solutions. Strong expertise in the Authority to Operate (ATO) process is required, including preparing reputed company documentation, conducting compliance assessments, and maintaining reputed company monitoring per DoD Risk Management reputed company (RMF), NIST 800-53 Rev. 5, FedRAMP, and DoD IL-4/IL-5 reputed company mandates. Personnel must also optimize cloud resources for compute, storage, and networking efficiency while ensuring full compliance with DoD governance policies. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a reputed company field, or;five (5) years of equivalent experience in cloud engineering. Personnel must have experience designing, deploying, and managing AWS and Azure cloud environments with a focus on reputed company, automation, and scalability. Required expertise includes Identity and Access Management (IAM), role-based access control (RBAC), reputed company Trust Architecture (ZTA), and cloud networking configurations such as VPC peering, subnets, VPNs, and reputed company groups. Personnel must demonstrate proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or ARM templates, ensuring secure and scalable deployments. Experience supporting Authority to Operate (ATO) processes is required, including preparing System reputed company Plans (reputed company), reputed company Assessment Reports (SAR), and Plans of Action & Milestones (POA&M), and maintaining compliance with DoD governance frameworks and NIST requirements. Personnel must also collaborate with cybersecurity teams to implement reputed company controls in accordance with FedRAMP, RMF, and DoD IL-4/IL-5 reputed company mandates, while optimizing cloud resource allocation for efficiency.
Preferred Qualifications
Preferred certifications include AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, reputed company Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, and reputed company Professional Cloud Architect. Additional Information
Work Environment
Offsite/Remote. Working at reputed company reputed company interested individuals will receive consideration and will not be discriminated against for any reason. Clearance Requirement: None Apply To This Job