Cloud Engineer

Taurean Corp; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Taurean is seeking a Cloud Engineer to support DISA testing and evaluations at Fort Meade, MD. You will design, deploy, maintain and secure cloud infrastructure with minimal oversight, building repeatable environments using Terraform and Ansible across AWS, Azure, GCP.

Mission-driven role requiring DoD-related experience and active clearance considerations. Onsite with potential government-approved telework and travel as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related field plus 3+ years' general experience.
• DoD or comparable environment experience is required.
• Ability to design, deploy, and secure cloud infrastructure with minimal oversight.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, manage, optimize and operate systems and services across the cloud providers used for testing and evaluations.
• Build repeatable deployment templates and infrastructure as code; deploy and scale applications, virtual machines, networks and supporting services.
• Configure cloud accounts, access controls and security policies; monitor health and performance and perform routine patches and updates.
• Deploy, configure, secure and manage cloud-native container orchestration and services across authorized cloud environments.
• Troubleshoot availability, configuration and performance issues and coordinate with cloud service providers and Government stakeholders.
• Maintain cloud architecture diagrams, ports/protocols records, configurations and operating procedures.
• Track license and warranty expiration information and contribute lab/cloud status and service-level reporting.
• Support engineering tests, evaluations and pilot environments as assigned within the exercised task, using approved configuration and change procedures.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure deployment

Virtual machines management

Containers via IaC

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Job description

Taurean is a mission-driven defensive cyber operations firm delivering security engineering, risk management, and compliance execution for federal and regulated environments. Our teams protect operational systems, sensitive data, and high-assurance environments through disciplined engineering, structured compliance frameworks, and operational rigor.

Guided by our vision — Find Relevant Work. Create Meaningful Jobs. Transform Lives — for the Glory of God! — we build teams grounded in accountability, professional growth, and purposeful contribution. Our culture emphasizes strong leadership, family-first principles, and continuous development within a collaborative, performance-focused environment.

About the Role

You will serve as our key Cloud Engineer supporting DISA technology testing and evaluations. You will design, deploy, maintain and secure cloud infrastructure with minimal oversight and build repeatable, maintainable environments. This prospective position is contingent on contract award, funding and exercise of optional Cloud Support. You must be ready for onboarding when the associated task is exercised.

Key Responsibilities

• Deploy, manage, optimize and operate systems and services across the cloud providers used for assigned testing and evaluations.
• Build repeatable deployment templates and infrastructure as code; deploy and scale applications, virtual machines, networks and supporting services.
• Configure cloud accounts, access controls and security policies; monitor health and performance and perform routine patches and updates.
• Deploy, configure, secure and manage cloud-native container orchestration and services across authorized cloud environments.
• Troubleshoot availability, configuration and performance issues and coordinate with cloud service providers and Government stakeholders.
• Maintain cloud architecture diagrams, ports/protocols records, configurations and operating procedures.
• Track license and warranty expiration information and contribute lab/cloud status and service-level reporting.
• Support engineering tests, evaluations and pilot environments as assigned within the exercised task, using approved configuration and change procedures.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field, plus at least three (3) years of general experience; OR, in lieu of the degree, at least six (6) years of total experience, comprising the three-year experience minimum plus three (3) additional years of directly related experience. Either pathway must also include at least two (2) years of relevant professional experience in DoD, commercial or comparable environments. The relevant experience may be included within the total experience.
• Ability to design, deploy, maintain and secure cloud infrastructure independently or with minimal oversight.
• Ability to administer virtual machines, cloud networks, accounts, access policies, scaling, maintenance, monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Ability to deploy and manage cloud-native containers using infrastructure as code.
• Complete required on-the-job training and demonstrate the ability to perform your duties in the assigned Government environment.

Certifications

• Obtain the required DoD 8140 work-role certification within 90 days of contract award or exercise of the associated optional Cloud Support task. You must meet applicable qualification requirements and obtain Government authorization before performing privileged activities.
• Meet one of these certification requirements within the stated timeframe: a current CompTIA A+, EC-Council CND, CompTIA Network+ or CompTIA Security+ certification PLUS an industry cloud certification; OR a current CompTIA Cloud+, GIAC GICSP, GIAC GSEC or ISC2 SSCP certification.
• Maintain current certifications. Under the Basic qualification pathway, complete at least 20 hours of continuous professional development annually, or the hours required to maintain your certification, whichever is greater. Under the Intermediate pathway (Cloud+, GICSP, GSEC or SSCP), complete the annual professional development required by the Government component and maintain your certification.
• Meet the applicable certification requirements and obtain Government authorization before performing privileged activities.

Technical Environment

Cloud environments include Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud. Cloud-native services may include AWS EKS/ECS, Azure AKS, Google GKE and Oracle OKE/Container Instances. Infrastructure-as-code tools include Terraform and Ansible.

Schedule & Location

Primary duty location: Fort Meade, Maryland. Support Monday-Friday operations during core hours of 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Eastern Time. TAC support requires daily onsite coverage during core hours; individual attendance is scheduled to maintain that coverage. Any telework is subject to Government approval and mission needs. Federal holidays are normally excluded unless otherwise directed. Local and other domestic travel may be required.

Eligibility & Clearance

U.S. citizenship, an active final Secret clearance and a favorably adjudicated Tier 3 investigation are required before beginning the assigned onsite work. Obtain Government facility/network approvals and credentials before access. Complete required security training and nondisclosure agreements, and follow controlled-information handling requirements.

Taurean is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to an inclusive environment for all employees.