AWS Cloud Engineer

SAIC; Ashburn (VA); Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer to support a federal financial program. The role involves developing and maintaining cloud solutions across multiple platforms while ensuring security and efficiency. Candidates should have a strong background in cloud environments and project management methodologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and five years of related experience.
• Must be a US Citizen with ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.
• Proven background in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and design cloud solutions across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.
• Operate and maintain cloud environments using Infrastructure as Code.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align cloud strategies.

Skills

Project Management methodologies

Agile collaboration tools

CI/CD tools

Containerization

Terraform

Cloud high availability

Disaster Recovery planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Job description

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Job ID: 2506053

Location: REMOTE WORK, VA, US

Date Posted: 2025-05-23

Category: Information Technology

Subcategory: Cloud Comp Engr

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time

Minimum Clearance Required: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust

Potential for Remote Work: Yes

Description

SAIC is seeking a AWS Cloud Engineer supporting a growing federal financial program. This individual will have to have experience in a multi-cloud environment.

Responsibilities Include:

• Develop and design cloud solutions (within AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI) and Design/build solutions, and processes to deploy, operate, and maintain resilient secure Cloud environments to enable development teams to deliver features in the most efficient way possible.
• Operate and maintain cloud environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and SRE principles.
• Maintenance and ongoing development of automation and continuous build/integration/deployment infrastructure for multiple environments; write, build and deploy scripts.
• Enable observability and resilience throughout multi-cloud landing zones and Dev/Test/Prod environments.
• Support implementation of security policies, standards, guidelines, and governance.
• Continuously assess, onboard, and enable new FedRAMP cloud services using security best practices for IAM and networking.
• Optimize cloud performance, security, and cost-efficiency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align cloud strategies with business objectives.
  
  

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s and five years or more of related experience. Master’s and three or more years of related experience.(4 years experience in lieu of degree)
• Must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
• Proven background working in cloud environments with experience and knowledge in 4 or more of the following areas:
• Project Management methodologies including Scrum or Agile
• Agile collaboration tools such as Atlassian Jira, Confluence
• CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, Bitbucket, Artifactory)
• CSPs including Azure, AWS, OCI, or GCP
• Containerization and container management with Kubernetes and Helm
• Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation
• Git, branching strategies, GitFlow and/or GitHub Flow
• Cloud high availability and scalability best practices and architectures
• Disaster Recovery planning and implementation in cloud environments
• Experience designing and implementing landing zone architectures in cloud environments, including multi-account strategies, network segmentation, and security controls.
  

Desired:

• Professional cloud certifications from multiple cloud service providers (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect)
• Experience with multi-cloud and hybrid cloud architectures.
• Familiarity with federal government compliance standards and frameworks (e.g., FISMA, FedRAMP, NIST, Cloud Smart Strategy, etc.)
• Experience with Zero Trust architecture principles and implementation in cloud environments.
• Experience with Identity Principles and Access Management at large/enterprise scale.
• Understanding of Cloud Network principles
  
  

Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Defense and Space Manufacturing

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