AWS Cloud Engineer – Federal Gov, IaC & CI/CD

Cherokee Federal

Almont (CO)

On-site

USD 100,000 - 140,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Cherokee Federal is seeking an AWS Engineer to design, deploy, and support secure, scalable AWS cloud solutions for a federal client. This role emphasizes infrastructure, IaC, CI/CD, cloud security, and DevOps in a regulated environment.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of AWS experience and possess strong cloud engineering skills with federal or public sector exposure. Salesforce/MuleSoft experience is a bonus and U.S. citizenship is required.

Qualifications

5+ years of AWS experience in design, deployment, and support of cloud infrastructure.
Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining AWS infrastructure for federal or public sector clients.
Hands-on with core AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, ECS/EKS).
Experience with infrastructure as code (CloudFormation, Terraform, or AWS CDK).
Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines and DevOps automation.
Strong understanding of cloud security, networking, and IAM in a regulated environment.
Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting on AWS.
Experience with FedRAMP, ATO, or NIST 800-53 preferred.
AWS certification (Solutions Architect, SysOps, DevOps) preferred.
Salesforce/Mulesoft experience a bonus.
Strong written and verbal communication; able to brief senior stakeholders.
Ability to obtain government-required background investigation or security clearance.
U.S. Citizenship required.

Responsibilities

Design, deploy, and maintain secure, scalable AWS infrastructure for government missions.
Collaborate with government leads to define requirements and release timing.
Architect and implement AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, ECS/EKS, API Gateway.
Build and manage IaC with CloudFormation, Terraform, or AWS CDK.
Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate builds and deployments.
Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for visibility and health.
Ensure security, governance, and compliance (FedRAMP, NIST 800-53).
Configure networking, security groups, encryption, and IAM controls.
Support integrations between AWS systems and external platforms.
Troubleshoot issues; document root causes and remediation.
Present briefs to government managers; produce executive-level summaries.