AWS GovCloud Cloud Engineer — Design, FinOps & Security

Apptad; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Apptad seeks a hands-on Cloud Engineer to design and operate cloud solutions in AWS GovCloud, coordinating with a central landing zone team. You will document architecture, develop cost estimates, and guide platform tradeoffs from OpenShift to AWS managed services while ensuring security and FinOps discipline.

The role requires leading CI/CD migrations, adapting pipelines between GitLab and Jenkins, and migrating data services to managed AWS offerings.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cloud engineering with AWS design/implementation.

Responsibilities

• Design and document the architecture of each AWS GovCloud account provisioning by the central landing zone team.
• Lead tradeoff analysis across container platforms: OpenShift, ROSA, EKS, ECS and implement the chosen solution.
• Evaluate and migrate CI/CD pipelines between GitLab and Jenkins and support the chosen direction.
• Migrate data and messaging services (OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Kafka, PostgreSQL) to managed cloud equivalents.
• Own monitoring/observability across the environment, including maintenance tasks, capacity scaling, and health checks.
• Own FinOps monitoring and long-term spend forecasting for cloud resources.
• Document and demonstrate compliance with FISMA and NIST 800-53 controls with artifacts for authorization and monitoring.
• Design and maintain infrastructure as code using Helm, CloudFormation, and Ansible.
• Support software supply chain security with Nexus Repository and Nexus Firewall.
• Collaborate with client stakeholders and Deloitte teams to define cloud direction, priorities, and cost tradeoffs.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Public trust

Stakeholder engagement

Documentation

Tools

OpenShift

ROSA

EKS

ECS

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Nexus Repository

Nexus Firewall

CloudFormation

Ansible

Helm

OpenSearch

Kafka

PostgreSQL

AWS GovCloud

Job description

Apptad seeks a hands-on Cloud Engineer to design and operate cloud solutions in AWS GovCloud, coordinating with a central landing zone team. You will document architecture, develop cost estimates, and guide platform tradeoffs from OpenShift to AWS managed services while ensuring security and FinOps discipline.

The role requires leading CI/CD migrations, adapting pipelines between GitLab and Jenkins, and migrating data services to managed AWS offerings.