Senior Cloud Engineer

Analysis Solutions Business Area (ASBA) is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer in Reston, Virginia. The successful candidate will work as a member of a government contractor team managing and securing mission critical infrastructure.   You will work in a hybrid environment, bridging the gap between unclassified and classified enclaves, while ensuring compliance with federal mandates.  You will act as a key technical resource, driving automation, cloud-native modernization, and secure operations across isolated cloud boundaries.  Work will be performed in a fast-paced, high-energy environment inside a government facility.

Primary Responsibility

Cloud Architecture & Engineering:

• Architect, design, and deploy secure, scalable, and highly available AWS solutions tailored for unclassified and classified environments.
• Ensure seamless hybrid connectivity and secure data replication between unclassified and classified networks/enclaves.
• Provision and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.

Security & Compliance:

• Implement strict security controls to align with DoD RMF, NIST SP 800-53, and CIS/STIG hardening guidelines across all AWS instances.
• Manage Identity and Access Management (IAM), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and secure key management utilizing AWS KMS.
• Audit and validate air-gapped or classified cloud environments to ensure they strictly adhere to federal data-at-rest and data-in-transit encryption standards.

Operations & Deployment:

• Maintain CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab, GitHub Actions) for smooth, automated, and audited deployments.
• Monitor cloud system performance, availability, and reliability, proactively resolving infrastructure defects and bottlenecks.
• Troubleshoot complex, interconnected cloud stacks, performing root-cause analysis when operational issues occur.

Qualifications

• TS/SCI Clearance w/Polygraph is required to be considered
• Must be a US Citizen
• Requires an in-depth understanding of technical principles, theories, concepts and their application across range of programs.  Typically requires BS degree and 12 – 15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10 – 13 years of prior relevant experience.  A with a minimum of 3+ years of hands-on, production-level AWS cloud engineering experience.
• Demonstrated ability designing or operating within AWS GovCloud (US) regions.
• Experience with AWS Core services (EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, Route53, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS.)
• Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience in OS and Scripting with Python.
• Understanding of DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (SRG), RMF, and NIST frameworks

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or DoD 8570/8140 compliance (e.g., CompTIA Security+).

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