Cloud Engineer

Saic; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to join a National Intelligence program, guiding Government IT teams on multi-cloud design and migration aligned to mission requirements. You will help shape future technology and architectural strategy across cloud providers, ensuring scalable, cost-conscious solutions.

The role emphasizes cloud-agnostic advisory, data modeling, and policy-aligned architecture with emphasis on AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM, and OCI platforms. TS/SCI with polygraph is required.

Qualifications

• US citizen required.
• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph required.
• Bachelor’s degree with 9+ years, Master’s with 7+ years, or PhD/JD with 4+ years of experience.
• 5+ years in cloud or hybrid environments (4 years in lieu of degree).
• 5+ years in IaaS/PaaS/SaaS, multi-cloud design/deployment, and large-scale data arch; data governance and metadata management.

Responsibilities

• Advise senior personnel on robust, scalable cloud architectures that meet mission requirements.
• Act as cloud-agnostic advocate and educate Government customers on suitable cloud services.
• Provide advisory services to evolve multi-cloud architectures and optimize cost, consumption, and performance across CSPs.
• Develop baseline multi-cloud architecture methodology for the C2E ecosystem.
• Support data models, dictionaries, maps, and other architecture artifacts across the enterprise.
• Design cloud solutions aligned with applicable policies, standards, and practices.
• Offer creative architectural solutions to ill-defined requirements.
• Assess impact of scope changes on future architectures.

Skills

US Citizenship

TS/SCI with Poly

Cloud experience

Cross-cloud architecture

Customer collaboration

Communication

Education

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Cloud related Certifications

Tools

AWS/Azure/GCP/IBM/OCI

Job description

Description

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Cloud Engineer to join our multi-million dollar National Intelligence program supporting the Cloud Investment Multi-Cloud Management (CIMM) team. As a contributor to the Intelligence Community’s first multi-cloud initiative, you will be at the epicenter of emergent cloud computing technologies, establishing a foundation that will evolve to include all agencies within the IC. As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will advise Government IT teams on the design and build of single- or multi-cloud computing architecture solutions that meet mission requirements, and develop future technology and architectural advancements to support the Government’s architectural strategy, cloud migration, and continued evolution.

Your responsibilities will include the following:

• Advising senior business and technical personnel to aid in the delivery of robust, scalable cloud architectures that meet or exceed mission requirements
• Serving as a cloud agnostic advocate and helping to educate the Government customer on cloud services appropriate to meet mission requirements
• Providing advisory services to maintain and evolve the future-state service provider-authorized, multi-cloud architecture, and knowledge database based on ever-changing IC mission needs and ensuring optimization of cost, consumption, and performance of services are achieved across all Cloud Service Providers (CSPs)
• Developing a baseline multi-cloud architecture methodology and framework for implementation within the C2E multi-cloud ecosystem
• Supporting the development and maintenance of data models, data dictionaries, data maps, and other architecture artifacts across the enterprise
• Designing all cloud solutions in alignment with applicable policies, standards, and practices
• Providing creative and innovative architectural solutions to ill-defined requirements
• Reviewing and accessing impact of proposed scope changes to future architectures
• May be required to provide cloud agnostic technical guidance in the formulation of customer multi-cloud work statements

Qualifications

Required:

• Must be a US Citizen
• Must have an active TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience ; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience
• Five (5) or more years of experience in a cloud and/or hybrid environment (additional 4 years of experience in lieu of degree)
• Five (5) or more years of demonstrated experience in one or more of the following activities:
  • IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services (e.g., compute, storage, network, security, administration, automation, application services, and databases)
  • Designing and deploying cloud solutions to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), IBM Cloud, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
  • Large-scale data architecture, data modeling, database design, and information systems implementation
• Demonstrated knowledge and expertise in enterprise data strategy, data governance practices, data stewardship principles, data standards, and metadata management best practices
• Ability to translate requirements into end-to-end designs for systems that involve multiple interfaces and support data repositories
• Strong customer service skills, teaming skills, and the ability to collaborate within a cross-functional team, as well as the CSPs (AWS, Azure, Google, IBM, and Oracle)
• Certification(s):
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • Cloud related (e.g., DevOps, Security, and/or ML)

Desired:

• Certifications in any of the following CSPs:
  • Azure
  • OCI
  • GCP
  • IBM
• Experience as a cloud agnostic architect
• Strong analysis and quality assessment skills
• Experience with successful full life cycle cloud development projects
• Experience with various Linux and Microsoft Windows OSs distributions
• Experience with Structured Query Language (SQL) and databases
• Experience migrating both custom built and enterprise apps to and from on-prem to cloud
• Experience debugging performance and technical issues
• Experience building and deploying systems in the cloud using continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) frameworks and infrastructure automation
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Ability to work well independently and within a team environment
• Ability to explain technical issues clearly and accurately to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Demonstrated ability to adjust to change priorities

Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.