Cloud Developer - AWS, IaC, Kubernetes & High Availability

Amentum; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 245,000 - 285,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Educational reimbursement

Parental leave

Stock purchase plan

Job summary

Amentum is seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, migrate, and modernize cloud environments. You will build IaC modules with Terraform and Helm, implement secure, scalable architectures, and drive high-availability strategies.

The role requires deep experience with AWS, containers, monitoring, cost optimization, and incident response. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, compliant cloud solutions and maintain runbooks and operational procedures.

Qualifications

• Experience provisioning, configuring, and managing cloud infrastructure and services (compute, storage, networking, IAM).
• Experience designing and implementing secure, scalable cloud architectures.
• Experience developing and maintaining IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, etc.
• Knowledge of containers and platform workloads (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS/AKS/GKE).
• Development experience with Java and React.
• Experience configuring monitoring, logging, and alerting (CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch) and incident response.
• Experience backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability strategies.
• Experience secrets management (KMS/KeyVault/Secret Manager) and rotation policies.
• Experience cost optimization (tagging, budgets, rightsizing, autoscaling) and usage reporting.
• Experience troubleshooting cloud infra across networking, security, and service limits.
• Experience documenting architectures, runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Experience with Linux OS.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure with modernization, migration, and roadmaps.
• Build reusable modules (e.g., Helm Charts, Terraform) and enforce IaC development standards.
• Monitor health and performance using logging/alerting; identify issues and improve efficiency.
• Provide strategies for failure/recovery, cost optimization, and cloud service benefits.
• Participate in continuous improvement to enhance system capabilities.
• Contribute to architectures, runbooks, and operational procedures; transfer knowledge to teams.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and propose enhancements.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Docker

Kubernetes

Java

React

Monitoring/Logging

HA/DR

Cost optimization

Secrets management

Linux

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline

4 years SWE substitution for degree

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm Charts

ActiveMQ

Kafka

Job description

Amentum is seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, migrate, and modernize cloud environments. You will build IaC modules with Terraform and Helm, implement secure, scalable architectures, and drive high-availability strategies.

The role requires deep experience with AWS, containers, monitoring, cost optimization, and incident response. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, compliant cloud solutions and maintain runbooks and operational procedures.