Cloud Developer/Integrator
Amentum
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Job summary
Amentum is seeking a Senior Cloud Software Engineer in Annapolis, MD to design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure and IaC pipelines using Terraform, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK. The role emphasizes secure, scalable architectures, cost optimization, and proactive monitoring.
You will work with Java and React, container platforms, and open source tools to deliver resilient cloud services with high availability, disaster recovery, and logging strategies for national security programs.
Qualifications
- Experience provisioning, configuring, and managing cloud infrastructure and services (compute, storage, networking, IAM).
- Experience designing secure, scalable cloud architectures and IaC pipelines.
- Experience with IaC tools: Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, etc.
- Knowledge of containers and platforms (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS/AKS/GKE).
- Experience monitoring, logging, alerting with CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch and incident response.
- Experience backup, DR, high-availability strategies.
- Secrets management with KMS/KeyVault/Secret Manager, rotation policies.
- Experience optimizing cloud cost and performance and producing usage/cost reports.
- Experience troubleshooting networking, security, and service limits in cloud infra.
- Experience documenting architectures, runbooks, and procedures.
- Experience with Linux OS.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure with best practices and governance.
- Build reusable modules (Helm Charts, Terraform) and enforce IaC standards.
- Develop with Java and React.
- Monitor health and performance, implement solutions for efficiency.
- Plan for failure/recovery, cost optimization, and cloud service analysis.
- Contribute to runbooks and procedures; share knowledge with teams.
- Stay current with emerging technologies and recommend system enhancements.
- Provide architectures, performance metrics, and knowledge transfer.
Skills
Education
Tools
Job description
This team is focused on providing cloud-based geolocation solutions in near-real-time directly to decision makers and warfighters around the world. They define requirements and determine and solutions to enhance capabilities and integrate applications and data formats. With this team, you’ll have the opportunity to exercise your skills in all facets of the systems engineering life cycle including requirements gathering, system design, testing, artifact development, and deployment in cloud environments.
M-F, 8 hours/5 days per week; after-hours call-in may be required
- Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure (e.g., modernization, migration, roadmaps, etc.), ensuring that systems are designed and maintained following best practices and governance requirements.
- Build reusable modules (e.g., Helm Charts, Terraform, etc.) and enforce development standards for creation and maintenance of Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Development experience with Java and React
- Continuously monitor the health and performance of the infrastructure and systems using logging and alerting, identify issues and implement solutions for improved efficiency.
- Provide strategies for failure/recovery (e.g., backup, high availability, etc.), cost optimization (e.g., tagging, budgets, rightsizing, autoscaling, etc.) and benefit analysis of cloud services.
- Participate in continuous improvement initiatives to enhance system capabilities and efficiency.
- Contribute to deliverables (e.g., architectures, runbooks, and operational procedures) and performance metrics, where applicable, and provide knowledge transfer to internal teams.
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies and recommend enhancements to current systems.
Proven progressive responsibility and experience, collectively, with the following:
- Experience provisioning, configuring, and managing cloud infrastructure and services (e.g., compute, storage, networking, IAM)
- Experience designing and implementing secure, scalable cloud architectures
- Experience developing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, etc.
- Knowledge of containers and platform workloads (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes/EKS/AKS/GKE).
- Experience configuring monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, etc. and responding to incidents.
- Experience implementing and testing backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability strategies
- Experience managing secrets and key management with tools such as KMS/KeyVault/Secret Manager, certificates, and rotation policies
- Experience optimizing cloud cost and performance (e.g., tagging, budgets, rightsizing, autoscaling) and producing usage/cost reports
- Experience troubleshooting cloud infrastructure issues across networking (DNS, routing, VPN), security, and service limits
- Experience documenting architectures, runbooks, and operational procedures
- Experience with Linux OS
- TS/SCI w/ poly
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
- Four (4) years of additional experience in software development/engineering on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
- Five (5) years’ experience in software development/engineering in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
- Within the last five (5) years, a minimum of three (3) years of experience programming with at least two (2) of the following languages: Java, C, and/or C++.
- Within the last five (5) years, a minimum of three (3) years of experience with open source (NoSQL) products that support highly-distributed, massively parallel computation needs such as HBase, CloudBase/Accumulo, and/or Big Table.
- Hadoop/Cloud Developer Certification
$270,000 - $300,000
Amentum enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe work environment. As appropriate, each employee is responsible for completing all training requirements and fulfilling all self-aid/buddy aid responsibilities, participating in emergency response tasks and serving on safety committees and teams.
Quality is the foundation for the management of our business and the keystone to our goal of customer satisfaction. It is our policy to consistently provide services that meet customer expectations. Accordingly, each employee must conform to the Amentum Quality Policy and carry out job activities in compliance with applicable Amentum Quality System documents and customer contracts. Each employee must read and understand his/her Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction responsibilities.
Each employee must read, understand and implement the general and specific operational, safety, quality and environmental requirements of all plans, procedures and policies pertaining to his/her job. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.
$270,000 - $300,000
The compensation range or hourly rate listed for this position is provided as a good‑faith estimate of what the company intends to offer for this role at the time this posting was issued. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as job responsibilities, education, experience, skills, internal equity, market data, applicable collective bargaining agreements, and relevant laws.
Our health and welfare benefits are designed to support you and your priorities. Offerings include:
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid time off and holidays
- Retirement benefits (including 401(k) matching)
- Educational reimbursement
- Parental leave
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Tax-saving options
- Disability and life insurance
- Pet insurance
Note: Benefits may vary based on employment type, location, and applicable agreements. Positions governed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act (SCA), or other employment contracts may include different provisions/benefits.
07/17/2026 - Until Filled
Amentum anticipates this job requisition will remain open for at least three days, with a closing date no earlier than three days after the original posting. This timeline may change based on business needs.
Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), age, ancestry, United States military or veteran status, color, religion, creed, marital or domestic partner status, medical condition, genetic information, national origin, citizenship status, low-income status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law. Learn more about your rights under Federal laws and supplemental language at Labor Laws Posters.
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