AWS Cloud Engineer

Jobs via Dice; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer to support a federal financial program. This role involves developing cloud solutions, maintaining cloud environments, and implementing security policies. Candidates should have a strong background in cloud technologies and relevant experience. The position offers a competitive salary and the potential for remote work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's and five years or more of related experience.
• Proven background working in cloud environments.
• Experience in project management methodologies and CI/CD tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop and design cloud solutions within AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform.
• 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

CSPs

Containerization

Terraform

Git

Cloud high availability

Disaster Recovery planning

Landing zone architectures

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Atlassian Jira

Confluence

Jenkins

GitLab

Bitbucket

Artifactory

Kubernetes

Helm

Ansible

CloudFormation

Job description

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, Google Cloud Platform 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)
• 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 Google Cloud Platform
  • 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.

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