Cloud Engineer

SAIC; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC is seeking a Cloud Engineer to support an IT Service Management effort for USTRANSCOM at Scott AFB, IL. The role focuses on owning the foundational AWS ecosystem where web pages live, not building frontend/backend apps.

Responsibilities include designing GovCloud hosting with ECS/EKS, enhancing security/compliance, migrating to containers, and implementing CI/CD with GitLab/Terraform. DoD documentation governance is required.

Qualifications

• BS/BA plus 10+ years of experience.
• Active DoD Secret Clearance required.
• AWS Cloud Engineer Certification with AWS Cloud Engineer experience.
• At least one IAT Level II certification (Security+, CECCNA-Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, CND, SSCP).
• CE certification or certificate for Cloud/virtualization (Azure, AWS, Oracle, IBM) with preference for Azure.
• Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8/9 command line administration.
• Experience designing, building, and managing cloud-based apps/services in AWS.
• Proficient knowledge of ECS, EKS, and ECR.
• Experience with DoD-aligned documentation and governance.
• Basic CMS administration (permissions, configs, patches, backups) in cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement AWS GovCloud hosting environments using ECS Fargate/EKS/containers.
• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure website infrastructure in AWS GovCloud.
• Emphasize cloud security, compliance, and resiliency.
• Migrate and refactor web infrastructure into containers.
• Manage static and dynamic hosting architectures.
• Proven CI/CD experience with GitLab and Terraform.
• Experience with blue/green deployment methodologies.
• Collaborate with senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives.
• Make decisions on administrative or project work and ensure objectives are met.
• Provide DoD-aligned documentation and governance.
• Proven experience with CMS administration in cloud platforms.

Skills

AWS GovCloud

ECS/Fargate

EKS

CI/CD

Terraform

GitLab

Blue/Green

CMS Admin

Red Hat Linux

Security Clearance

IAT II

Education

BS/BA

Tools

Terraform

GitLab CI

RHEL 8/9

ECS

EKS

ECR

Job description

SAIC is seeking a Cloud Engineer to support an IT Service Management effort for USTRANSCOM located at Scott Air Force Base (AFB) in Illinois. The USTC Managed Information Technology Services (MITS) contract is intended to provide strategic, technical, and program management guidance and support services to facilitate the operations and modernization of the combatant command’s infrastructure, systems, and applications. This support will be provided to the USTC Command, Control, Communications & Cyber Systems Directorate (TCJ6).

The successful candidate initiates, supervises, and/or develops requirements from a project’s inception to conclusion for complex to extremely complex programs; Provides strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to program and project staff; Provides detailed analysis, evaluation and recommendations for improvements, optimization development, and/or maintenance efforts for client-specific or mission critical challenges/issues; Consults with client to define needs or problems, supervises studies and leads surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions. In this role the candidate will not be writing frontend or backend web applications; instead, will own the foundational AWS ecosystem where the web pages live.

Responsibilities:

• - Architecture and implement AWS GovCloud and maintain resilient hosting environments for web assets using ECS Fargate/EKS/containers
• - The AWS Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining scalable and secure website infrastructure in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud Region.
• - Emphasize Cloud security, compliance, and resiliency
• - Migrate and refactor web infrastructure into containers
• - Manage static and dynamic hosting architectures
• - Proven experience with CI/CD engineering (GitLab, Terraform)
• - Experience with and understanding of blue/green deployment methodology
• - Participate with senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives
• - Recommend and make decisions on administrative or project work matters and ensures effective achievement of program, project, or organizational objectives
• - Provide DoD-aligned documentation and governance
• - Proven experience with Limited Content Management System platform administration

This position is for Monday through Friday, normal business hours. However, employee may be required to provide after-hours and weekend support during planned or emergency events.

Required Qualifications:

• - BS/BA + Ten (10) years or more experience
• - Active DoD Secret Clearance
• - AWS Cloud Engineer Certification with experience as AWS Cloud Engineer
• - Must have at least one of these IAT Level II certifications: Security+, CECCNA-Security, CySA+ **, GICSP, GSEC, CND, SSCP.
• - Computing Environment (CE) certification or certificate for the technical area of responsibility for Cloud or virtualization (e.g., Azure, AWS, oracle, IBM, etc.) with a preference in Azure.
• - Experience with Redhat Enterprise Linux 8/9 command line administration.
• - Experience designing, building, and managing cloud-based applications and services using Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• - Proficient knowledge of Redhat Enterprise Linux operating system and command line administration.
• - In-depth understanding of Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR).
• - Experience preparing technical documentation.
• - Configuration and change management experience working directly with/for a government customer.
• - Basic proficiency in a major content management system with experience in admin functions such as permissions, configurations, patches/upgrades, and backups in cloud-based platforms.

Desired Qualifications:

• - MA/MS
• - 15 or more years of experience
• - Experience with Terraform
• - Experience with Javascript/Node.js
• - Experience with ECS Fargate
• - Experience with Gitlab pipelines, Gitlab CI
• - Experience with AWS RDS Postgres Database
• - Experience with AWS monitoring and alerting tools, CloudTrail, and CloudWatch
• - Demonstrated knowledge in creating and executing CI/CD pipelines
• - Basic experience with a major CMS
• - Experience with React/Next.js
• - Proficiency in web technologies such as HTML and CSS
• - Redhat Enterprise Linux 8/9 administration