Cloud Engineer

Judge Group, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 90,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

The Judge Group, Inc. seeks a Cloud Engineer to support a large federal agency in Washington, DC. This on-site role requires hands-on cloud engineering, IaaS/PaaS management, and governance alignment with enterprise standards.

Qualifications include 5 years of cloud engineering, AWS Commercial and GovCloud expertise, and strong collaboration with cloud architects. The position emphasizes automation, CI/CD, and FinOps practices to optimize costs and performance.

Qualifications

• 5 years of cloud engineering operations, management, and governance experience.
• Degree in Computer Science/Information Management Systems or equivalent.
• Expertise with AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud platforms.
• Strong IT engineering knowledge across infrastructure, security, and networking.
• Experience on enterprise IT projects and clear written/oral communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering and operational support for IaaS/PaaS and cloud migrations.
• Develop infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployment.
• Guide cloud governance, guardrails, and cost optimization strategies.
• Implement IAM, security controls, spend management, and observability.
• Collaborate with cloud architects to align deployments to enterprise standards.
• Support FinOps with financial alerting and cloud project controls.

Skills

Cloud engineering

AWS

Governance

FinOps

Communication

Education

Degree in Computer Science/Information Management Systems

Tools

DevSecOps tools

AWS GovCloud

Job description

Location: Washington, DC Salary: $65.00 USD Hourly – $75.00 USD Hourly Description: The Judge Group is currently seeking a Cloud Engineer to support a large federal agency in Washington, DC. This position is onsite five days/week.

Duties:

• Provide engineering and operational support related to IaaS/PaaS services (e.g.
• compute, storage, networking, security, databases) as well as application
• modernization and migration efforts within cloud environments
• Perform provisioning and operationalizing of cloud technology and automation
• solutions at scale; assist with establishing governance for implementing cloud
• technology solutions; and advising on upskilling the IT workforce on cloud
• technologies
• Manage the systems, services, and components needed to provide user access,
• security controls, identity and access management (IAM), spend management,
• workflows and automations, and integrations for the operation, maintenance,
• and governance cloud environments
• Work closely with cloud architects and lead cloud engineers to ensure
• cloud technology deployments align to enterprise designs and standards
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, orchestration,
• and automated deployment best practices to support a robust,repeatable, and
• streamlined cloud infrastructure and application deployment process
• Support FinOps practices by integrating financial alerting and controls into cloud projects.
• Actively manage and support solutions responsible for full stack observability, monitoring, and
• alerting of problems, issues, and abnormalities within the cloud environments andapplications
• Administer and support systems within the Enterprise Architecture
• Directorate including governance platforms and DevSecOps tools
• Provide expert advice oncloud technology standards, industry trends, emerging
• technologies and solutions to ensure that best practices are utilized within cloud
• environments
• Identify andimplement cloud governance strategies, including guardrails, policy
• enforcement, and cost optimization techniques
• Provide engineering support and guidance on technical projects through collaboration
• and coordination across directorates with regard to best practices for cloud application
• development and modernization

Experience Requirements

• 5 years performing Cloud Engineering operations, management,
• and governance activities.
• All Candidates
• Degree in Computer Science/Information Management Systems, or
• equivalent level technical experience.
• Demonstrated expertise in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloudCloud Service Platforms
• Demonstrated knowledge in IT engineering, infrastructure, security, data
• management, networking and cloud technologies
• Demonstrated skill in supporting complex and matrix managed projects
• Experience developing documentation, processes, and guidance documents
• Experience performing on enterprise-level information technology projects
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with elected
• officials, senior staff, information systems professionals, and non-technical
• users.

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