AWS DevOps Engineer - DoD Security Clearance

Atlas-Technologies,-Inc.; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlas Tech is seeking a skilled AWS DevOps Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize mission-critical AWS infrastructure for DoD customers. You will implement CI/CD pipelines, automate provisioning with Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible, and ensure STIG-hardening and ongoing security compliance across environments.

Travel up to 10% and collaboration with security and operations teams will be essential as you monitor performance, control costs, and support disaster recovery and incident

Qualifications

• DoD Secret clearance required or ability to obtain
• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or equivalent experience
• Experience as AWS DevOps Engineer with Oracle-backed systems
• Proficient in Python and Bash scripting
• Practical knowledge of DoD STIGs and AWS hardening

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using AWS services
• Automate infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible
• Maintain STIG-hardened environments and perform security posture reviews
• Patch management, baselines, and monitoring to meet DoD cyber requirements
• Collaborate with security and operations to enforce governance, encryption, logging
• Optimize performance and cost through monitoring and tuning AWS resources
• Develop automation scripts in Python, Bash, or PowerShell for build, deploy, monitoring, security hardening
• Support disaster recovery planning and test recovery scenarios

Skills

DoD clearance

Security+ CE

Python scripting

CI/CD concepts

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

AWS

PowerShell

Job description

Atlas Tech is seeking a skilled AWS DevOps Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize mission-critical AWS infrastructure for DoD customers. You will implement CI/CD pipelines, automate provisioning with Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible, and ensure STIG-hardening and ongoing security compliance across environments.

Travel up to 10% and collaboration with security and operations teams will be essential as you monitor performance, control costs, and support disaster recovery and incident