Cloud Developer/Integrator

Amentum; 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

Retirement benefits (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 scalable cloud infrastructure for real-time geolocation solutions used by decision makers and warfighters worldwide.

You will contribute across the full systems engineering lifecycle—requirements, design, testing, deployment in cloud environments—producing runbooks, architectures, and operational procedures while advancing security, reliability, and cost efficiency.

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 Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, etc.
• Knowledge of containers and platform workloads (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

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure and governance-compliant systems.
• Build reusable modules (e.g., Helm charts) and enforce IaC standards.
• Develop Java and React-based applications and services.
• Monitor health and performance; address incidents and optimize efficiency.
• Plan for failure/recovery, cost optimization, and cloud service benefits.
• Participate in continuous improvement; deliver architectures and runbooks.
• Provide knowledge transfer to internal teams and stakeholders.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and enhancements.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Cloud architecture

Infrastructure as Code

Containers

Cloud monitoring

Backup and DR

Secrets management

Cost optimization

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Linux

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

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.

Work Schedule: M-F, 8 hours/5 days per week

Essential Responsibilities

• 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.

Minimum Requirements (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

• 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 (laC) 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

Clearance Required

TS/SCI w/FSP

Minimum Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

Minimum Years of Experience

Twenty (20) years’ experience as a SWE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.

Salary Range

$245,000 - $285,000

Safety

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

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.

Procedure Compliance

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.

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Compensation Details

$245,000 - $285,000

Benefits Overview

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.