AWS Cloud Engineer - Federal Government

CGS Federal; Rockville (MD); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life Insurance

401k

Flexible Spending Account

Paid Time Off

Job summary

CGS Federal is seeking a Cloud Engineer (AWS) to support documentation, engineering, security, and operations for a large federal agency. The role emphasizes cloud design, migration, and secure, scalable solutions.

The ideal candidate has 4+ years of distributed-app experience, hands-on AWS, and a strong grasp of SaaS/PaaS/IaaS fundamentals, plus a track record of delivering production-ready systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
• 4–7 years of IT experience supporting federal agencies.
• 4+ years designing, implementing or supporting distributed apps with strong architecture.
• Hands-on AWS experience required; cloud design experience preferred.
• Experience delivering large-scale solutions and production-grade deployments.
• Broad cloud knowledge across SaaS, PaaS, IaaS; cloud migration experience.

Responsibilities

• Design flexible, scalable cloud solutions meeting security controls.
• Help develop documentation supporting engineering, security, and operations.
• Conduct business/technical analyses to aid customer decisions.
• Facilitate transition of solutions to operations and ongoing reliability.

Skills

Cloud design

Documentation

Solution analysis

Operations handoff

Cloud fundamentals

AWS

Large-scale design

Cloud design planning

Lift-and-shift

Cloud networking

AWS Certification

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other Engineering or Technical discipline or equivalent relevant experience

Job description

CGS Federal is seeking a Cloud Engineer (AWS) to support documentation, engineering, security, and operations for a large federal agency. The role emphasizes cloud design, migration, and secure, scalable solutions.

The ideal candidate has 4+ years of distributed-app experience, hands-on AWS, and a strong grasp of SaaS/PaaS/IaaS fundamentals, plus a track record of delivering production-ready systems.