AWS Cloud Engineer: Enterprise Modernization and Automation

Fidelis Technologies; Maryland; On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Fidelis Technologies in Maryland is seeking a senior cloud engineer to design, deploy, and optimize secure, scalable AWS-based infrastructure. You will migrate legacy systems, implement containerized services, and ensure compliance with mission requirements.

Collaborate with software and infrastructure teams, monitor performance, automate provisioning, and help maintain robust disaster recovery. A TS/SCI clearance is required for the program.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Six years of software development or engineering experience on programs or contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
• At least four years of experience developing software for systems using cloud-related technologies.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, cloud migration, cloud integration, distributed systems, or large-scale data processing environments.
• Familiarity with Agile development processes and the ability to collaborate effectively on a software development team.
• Ability to interface directly with development teams, system stakeholders, and end users.
• Experience testing infrastructure components, validating design requirements, and documenting results.
• Active TS/SCI clearance and Full Scope Polygraph is required for the program.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and support cloud-based applications and infrastructure using Amazon EC2 and related AWS compute services.
• Support migration and modernization of legacy systems into AWS environments, including refactoring applications to run efficiently on EC2, containerized platforms, and managed services.
• Build and maintain secure, scalable cloud environments using AWS services such as Amazon S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Systems Manager, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, Lambda, RDS, and Amazon EBS.
• Integrate applications, data pipelines, and mission systems across AWS services while ensuring availability, reliability, performance, and security.
• Develop and support automation for provisioning, configuration, monitoring, patching, and operational maintenance of AWS infrastructure.
• Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve issues across development, test, and production cloud environments, including EC2 instances, networking, storage, access controls, and application services.
• Conduct scalability and performance assessments of cloud-hosted applications to identify bottlenecks and recommend improvements using AWS-native monitoring and optimization tools.
• Support cloud data management and distributed processing environments and AWS-aligned storage or analytics services.
• Collaborate with software engineers, infrastructure teams, system owners, and end users to evaluate requirements, validate designs, test components, and document implementation results.
• Contribute to system design decisions involving cloud architecture, networking, security, cost optimization, high availability, disaster recovery, COTS/GOTS integration, and reuse of existing capabilities.

Skills

Cloud computing

AWS services

Kubernetes

Linux

System monitoring

Software development

Cloud migration

Agile development

Stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

4+ years substitution allowed for degree

Tools

AWS EC2

AWS S3

AWS IAM

AWS VPC

CloudWatch

Systems Manager

Elastic Load Balancing

Auto Scaling

Lambda

RDS

EBS

Job description

Fidelis Technologies in Maryland is seeking a senior cloud engineer to design, deploy, and optimize secure, scalable AWS-based infrastructure. You will migrate legacy systems, implement containerized services, and ensure compliance with mission requirements.

Collaborate with software and infrastructure teams, monitor performance, automate provisioning, and help maintain robust disaster recovery. A TS/SCI clearance is required for the program.