AWS Cloud Engineer — Federal Solutions

CGS Federal (Contact Government Services); Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, and Vision

Life Insurance

401k

Flexible Spending Account

PTO and Holidays

Job summary

CGS Federal, a government-focused technology provider, seeks a Cloud Engineer (AWS) to support documentation, security, and operational processes for a large federal agency. The role emphasizes cloud SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS fundamentals and production-grade design.

The successful candidate will implement scalable, secure cloud solutions, contribute to migration strategies, and collaborate with teams to ensure production readiness and ongoing reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years supporting federal government IT
• Experience designing/delivering large-scale production solutions
• Hands-on AWS experience and architectural design
• Familiar with lift-and-shift migrations and cloud migration methods

Responsibilities

• Design solutions for flexibility, scalability and security controls.
• Support documentation development for engineering, security, and operations.
• Conduct business and technical analyses to aid customer decisions.
• Facilitate smooth transition of solutions to operations and ongoing operations.

Skills

Cloud solution design

Documentation for engineering/security

Technical/Business analysis

Solution transition to operations

AWS fundamentals + design/implement

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

AWS

Job description

CGS Federal, a government-focused technology provider, seeks a Cloud Engineer (AWS) to support documentation, security, and operational processes for a large federal agency. The role emphasizes cloud SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS fundamentals and production-grade design.

The successful candidate will implement scalable, secure cloud solutions, contribute to migration strategies, and collaborate with teams to ensure production readiness and ongoing reliability.