Cloud Engineer

Bespoketechnologies; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Bespoketechnologies in Chantilly, VA, is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design and secure mission-critical cloud solutions. The role requires operating in AWS environments with strong automation using Python/Java/JavaScript, and to communicate complex concepts to diverse stakeholders.

You will identify risks, perform trade studies, ensure compliance, and maintain cloud solutions per SLA while following sponsor frameworks and agile practices. On-site only with Poly clearance required.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years with BS/BA including at least 2 years Sponsor experience.
• Minimum 6 years with MS/MA including at least 2 years Sponsor experience.
• Minimum 3 years with PhD including at least 2 years Sponsor experience; 4 extra years may substitute for degree.
• Demonstrated experience managing AWS services including C2S, S3, EC2, Load balancers, ECR, subnets, autoscaling groups and users/groups, Lambda, MSK, SageMaker, Docker, Kafka, KMS.

Responsibilities

• Identify technical, CI, and operational risks, vulnerabilities, and single points of failure, and mitigate.
• Study capability feasibility and vulnerability, gap analyses, and evaluate new tech.
• Analyze compliance with requirements; integrate, test, verify, and validate end-to-end systems.
• Create system engineering diagrams, flow charts, and documentation to facilitate cross‑org collaboration.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions; apply an agile approach to development.
• Maintain cloud solutions according to SLA or requirements.

Skills

Cloud engineering

AWS services

Python/Java/JavaScript

Unix/Linux

Security controls RBAC/ABAC

CI/CD automation

Education

BS/BA degree

MS/MA degree

PhD (optional)

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kafka

KMS

SageMaker

Job description

BT-497 – Cloud Engineer

Skill Level: Senior

Location: Chantilly, VA (fully on-site, no remote option available)

Please do NOT apply if you do not have an active Poly clearance. Those without a Poly will not be considered.

Overview We are seeking a highly skilled Systems Engineering with strong Cloud Engineering experience to design, secure, and optimize mission-critical cloud solutions. This role blends system engineering, secure cloud architecture, virtualization technologies, and modern development practices. The ideal candidate has experience operating in classified AWS environments, automating with Python/Java/JavaScript, and communicating complex concepts effectively to diverse stakeholders.

Identify technical, CI, and operational risks, vulnerabilities, and single points of failure, and recommend mitigations

Study the feasibility and vulnerability of new technical capabilities and analyze gaps

Assess emerging and commercial off the shelf technologies in support of operational requirements and applications and perform technical trade studies to determine recommendation

Evaluate, validate, and analyze technical development compliance with stated requirements; Integrate, test, verify, and validate end-to-end systems

Develop diagrams, flow charts, and other system engineering-related documentation to problem-solve, identify improvements, create standards, and facilitate cross-organizational collaboration

Translate business requirements into technical solutions

Study capability feasibility and vulnerability studies and gap analyses

Apply an agile approach to software development consistent with the Sponsor's project management and software development frameworks

Maintain the cloud solutions according to SLA or requirement specifications

Required Skills:

• Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA including at least 2 years of Sponsor experience;
• Minimum of 6 years with MS/MA including at least 2 years of Sponsor experience;
• Minimum of 3 years with PhD including at least 2 years of Sponsor experience; an additional four years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
• Demonstrated experience managing AWS services including C2S, S3, EC2, Load balancers, ECR, subnets, autoscaling groups and users/groups, Lambda, MSK, SageMaker, Docker, Kafka, KMS
• Demonstrated experience with Security controls including managing security groups, network ACLs (Role Based Access Control (RBAC) / Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC))
• Demonstrated proficiency operating in Unix/ Linux-based OS
• Experience writing and testing Python, Java, Typescript
• Experience implementing and operating systems with Auditing tools, Enterprise Application Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) solution (OAuth), role-based access controls (RBAC)

Desired Skills:

• Agile JAVA
• PHP apps in Windows HTML and Bash Scripting
• Cypher query language or Neo4j Database administration
• Terraform
• Stand up and maintain stand-alone server for LLM training