Cloud Engineer (1147529)

The Judge Group; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 135,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Onsite Work

Job summary

The Judge Group is actively seeking a Cloud Engineer to support a large federal agency in Washington, DC. The role is onsite five days per week and includes medical, dental, and vision insurance for qualified candidates.

Responsibilities involve provisioning, operating, and governing cloud services, building IaC and CI/CD pipelines, and advising on cloud modernization while ensuring cost controls and governance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years performing Cloud Engineering operations, management, and governance activities.
• Degree in Computer Science/Information Management Systems, or equivalent level technical experience.
• Demonstrated expertise in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering and operational support for IaaS/PaaS services and cloud modernization.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployment.
• Manage systems for access control, IAM, and cloud governance.
• Support FinOps by integrating cost controls into cloud projects.
• Collaborate with cloud architects to align deployments with enterprise standards.
• Ensure observability and monitoring of cloud environments and applications.
• Provide guidance on cloud technology standards and emerging solutions.
• Identify and implement cloud governance guardrails and cost optimization.

Skills

Cloud Engineering

Cloud Governance

DevSecOps

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Information Management Systems

Tools

AWS Commercial

AWS GovCloud

CI/CD pipelines

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. Medical, Dental , and Vision Insurance is offered to qualified candidates.

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.

Contact: [e-mail]

This job and many more are available through The Judge Group. Find us on the web at www.judge.com