Cloud Developer: IaC, Kubernetes & Java/React

3M HEALTHCARE; Hanover (MD); On-site; USD 245,000 - 285,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off and holidays

401(k) matching

Educational reimbursement

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Tax-saving options

Disability and life insurance

Pet insurance

Job summary

Amentum is seeking a senior SWE to design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure in a security-cleared environment. You will develop IaC modules, build scalable architectures, and ensure high availability while optimizing costs.

The role requires experience with Docker/Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK, plus monitoring and incident response. Collaboration across teams and ongoing tech modernization are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience provisioning, configuring, and managing cloud infrastructure and services (compute, storage, networking, IAM).
• Experience designing secure, scalable cloud architectures.
• Experience developing and maintaining IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, etc.
• Knowledge of containers and platform workloads (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience configuring monitoring, logging, and alerting (CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch).
• Experience implementing backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability strategies.
• Experience managing secrets and keys (KMS/KeyVault/Secret Manager).
• Experience optimizing cloud cost and performance (tagging, budgets, autoscaling).
• Experience troubleshooting networking, security, and service limits.
• Experience documenting architectures, runbooks, and procedures.
• Experience with Linux OS.
• Clearance TS/SCI w/FSP.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure with governance and best practices.
• Build reusable IaC modules (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.).
• Develop applications using Java and React.
• Monitor health and performance; implement improvements.
• Plan backup, high availability, and cost-optimization strategies.
• Contribute to runbooks, architectures, and operational procedures.
• Provide knowledge transfer to internal teams and stay updated on emerging tech.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure design

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Containers & Kubernetes

Monitoring & logging

Backup, DR & High Availability

Secrets management

Cloud cost optimization

Networking & security

Documentation

Linux OS

TS/SCI clearance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Docker

Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE)

CloudWatch

Prometheus/Grafana

ELK/OpenSearch

KMS/KeyVault/Secret Manager

Job description

Amentum is seeking a senior SWE to design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure in a security-cleared environment. You will develop IaC modules, build scalable architectures, and ensure high availability while optimizing costs.

The role requires experience with Docker/Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK, plus monitoring and incident response. Collaboration across teams and ongoing tech modernization are essential.