Job Description
The Swift Group is a privately held, mission-driven and employee-focused services and solutions company headquartered in Reston, VA. Our capabilities include Software Development, Engineering & IT, Data Science, Cyber Enablement, Logistics, and Training. Founded in 2019, Swift supports Civilian, Defense, and Intelligence Community customers across the country and around the globe.
We are looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join our high-performing technical team in Reston, VA. In this role, you will architect, design, and implement innovative cloud solutions that harness the full potential of modern cloud technologies. You will build secure, scalable cloud infrastructures and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration, optimized performance, and the efficient delivery of mission-aligned capabilities.
Responsibilities:
- Analyze and decompose requirements to deliver scalable, reliable, and secure cloud architectures aligned with mission objectives
- Lead the design and implementation of advanced cloud solutions with a strong emphasis on resilience, performance, and industry-standard security practices
- Evaluate and adopt emerging cloud technologies, tools, and methodologies to improve system capabilities and enhance performance
- Develop and enforce cloud governance strategies ensuring compliance with applicable standards, regulatory requirements, and security frameworks
- Oversee automation of deployment, monitoring, and operational workflows to reduce manual effort and increase system efficiency
- Create, manage, and secure cloud-based operating system images across multiple classification domains using AWS AMIs
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional engineering teams to support integration, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and lifecycle maintenance
- Promote collaboration, mentorship, and continuous knowledge sharing across technical teams
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- US citizenship with active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph required
- 5+ years of experience designing, deploying, and maintaining advanced cloud solutions
- Demonstrated expertise in AWS environments supporting multiple classification domains (e.g., IL5 to IL6+)
- Proficiency with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, and EBS
- Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible
- Proficiency managing and securing Linux and Windows Server systems in production environments
- Hands-on scripting experience using Python and Bash for cloud automation
- Strong understanding of cloud security best practices and implementation of advanced security controls
- Experience supporting operational environments, managing ticket queues, and leveraging knowledge bases for issue resolution
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical topics to diverse audiences
- Active CompTIA Security+ or equivalent 8140/8570 certification (valid for at least one year)
- Relevant AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect Associate/Professional or SysOps Administrator) preferred
Please note: we are not working with staffing agencies to fill these positions and are not accepting any unsolicited resumes from agencies.
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The Swift Group and Subsidiaries are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.
Pay Range: $49,996.80 - $290,004.00
Pay ranges are a general guideline and not intended as a guaranteed and/or implied final compensation or salary for this job opening. Determination of official compensation or salary relies on several different factors including, but not limited to: level of position, complexity of job responsibilities, geographic location, work experience, education, certifications, Federal Government contract labor categories, and contract wage rates.
At The Swift Group and Subsidiaries, you will receive comprehensive benefits including but not limited to: healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, education, and time off benefits.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Reston, Virginia |
| Industry | Financial Services |
| Company Size | 1,500 to 1,999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1973 |
About Company
SWIFT is a member-owned cooperative that provides the communications platform, products and services to connect more than 10,800 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers in over 200 countries and territories. SWIFT enables its users to exchange automated, standardized financial information securely and reliably, thereby lowering costs, reducing operational risk and eliminating operational inefficiencies. SWIFT also brings the financial community together to work collaboratively to shape market practice, define standards and debate issues of mutual interest. SWIFT is headquartered in Belgium and has over 24 offices worldwide. In 2014 SWIFT processed more than 5.6 billion FIN messages.
Skills
- AWS Lambdaunmatched
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)unmatched
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)unmatched
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
- Ansibleunmatched
- Automationunmatched
- Bash Scriptingunmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Cloud Architectureunmatched
- Cloud Computingunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- CompTIA Security+unmatched
- Computer Scienceunmatched
- Computer Serversunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Data Scienceunmatched
- Defense Intelligenceunmatched
- Emerging Technologyunmatched
- Federal Contractsunmatched
- Federal Governmentunmatched
- Government Contractsunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Industry Standardsunmatched
- Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
- Intelligence Communityunmatched
- Knowledge Baseunmatched
- Linux Operating Systemunmatched
- Logisticsunmatched
- Maintain Complianceunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Microsoft Windows Operating Systemunmatched
- Microsoft Windows Serverunmatched
- Operating Systemsunmatched
- Operational Supportunmatched
- Performance Tuning/Optimizationunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Production Systemsunmatched
- Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
- Recruiting/Staffing Agencyunmatched
- Regulatory Complianceunmatched
- Regulatory Requirementsunmatched
- Requirements Managementunmatched
- Scalable System Developmentunmatched
- Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
- Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI)unmatched
- Software Developmentunmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- System Operationsunmatched
- Top Secret Clearanceunmatched
- United States Citizenunmatched
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