Cloud Engineer (Atlanta)

Mechanicode; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Mechanicode is seeking a Cloud Engineer in Atlanta to empower federal customer delivery through robust infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. You will enable developers to move fast while ensuring observability, IaC, and best practices for cloud-native deployments.

The role emphasizes building pipelines, managing AWS/Azure environments, and advancing automation with agentic AI tools to boost efficiency for teams and clients.

Qualifications

• Experience writing Python from scratch and building small tools independently.
• Experience designing and deploying AWS serverless architectures.
• Experience with core AWS services for compute, storage, networking, and IAM.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and workflows.
• Operate and improve cloud infrastructure using IaC (Terraform).
• Support fast-paced product teams by unblocking pipelines and responding to requests.

Skills

Python scripting

AWS cloud

Azure cloud

Serverless AWS

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Linux Bash

Docker

Monitoring/Logging/Alerts

LLMs & automation

IAM & Cloud security

Git basics

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Docker

Azure DevOps

Git

Job description

We are looking for a Cloud Engineer to enable efficient delivery of value to our federal customers through effective infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, empowering application developers to deliver at the speed of business.

The Cloud Engineer will support the operations of the cloud environment through observability, IaC, and cloud-native best practices. You'll be the go-to person for teams that depend on our build and deployment workflows, responding to their needs, unblocking their pipelines, and helping them adopt CI/CD best practices. You'll also explore and test best practices around agentic AI and its potential applications to enhance automation and efficiency for our teams and clients.

• Identity verification will happen at multiple stages of the interview process to adhere to federal compliance
• This role is based in the US for a US work-authorized person

Required

• Must be a U.S citizen or green-card holder
• Must be based in Atlanta, Georgia
• 4+ years of Cloud DevOps experience
• Ability to pass a background check and obtain a public trust security clearance

Essential Skills, Experience, and Competencies:

• Experience with writing Python from scratch, able to design, structure, and build scripts and small tools independently, not just modify existing code. Candidates should be prepared to discuss specific examples of Python they have written
• Experience with implementing cloud infrastructure on AWS or Azure
• Experience designing and deploying AWS serverless architectures
• Experience with core AWS services for compute, storage, networking, and IAM
• Experience managing network/compute/database infrastructure with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform
• Experience building, maintaining, and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines and workflows, ideally with GitHub Actions, including managing and monitoring GitHub Actions runners
• Experience with Linux, and Bash scripting
• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g. Docker, containerD)
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools in cloud environments
• Experience troubleshooting production incidents in distributed systems
• Experience using LLMs and automation tools to optimize workflows and processes
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices, identity, and access management
• Ability to develop the architecture for continuous integration and deployment as well as continuous monitoring
• Expert in basic git actions like cloning, creating branches, navigating between branches, staging code for commit, committing code, resetting, and merging
• Ability to support the Product Owner in reducing backlog according to priorities and timelines identified in JIRA
• Proven ability to work under pressure and in fast-paced environments
• Ability to operate and manage work, strategically reason, build relationships and influence others

Nice to Have

• Experience designing and deploying Azure environments and services
• Experience creating CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps
• Experience using agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or GitHub Copilot to build applications or automation, or experience using agents to assist with infrastructure operations tasks