Cloud Engineer, AWS & DoD Security — Onsite Dayton

CFD Research Corporation; Dayton (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)

Medical, vision, dental insurance

Paid leave and other leave benefits

Bonuses for performance

Job summary

CFD Research is seeking a Cloud Solutions Engineer based in Dayton, OH, onsite. You will design and implement resilient cloud architecture-based solutions using AWS and modern cloud technologies to host, scale, and optimize performance for complex test infrastructure and research applications.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, apply robust network engineering and cloud engineering practices, and support onboarding and operation of high-throughput cloud workloads in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline.
• Experience designing and implementing cloud architectures using AWS or equivalent.
• Strong network engineering foundation: IP routing, DNS, VPC, firewalls, segmentation.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and software engineering methodologies.
• Experience supporting research or defense engineering teams hosting and optimizing complex software workloads.
• US Citizen and active TS/SCI clearance preferred or required.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain secure, scalable cloud architectures for continuous testing and research.
• Leverage AWS services to build infrastructure and optimize distributed cloud apps and data pipelines.
• Provide hands-on engineering support for onboarding and running complex, high-throughput cloud workloads.
• Architect and configure robust cloud networking, DoD-compliant security policies, and secure VPC topologies.
• Collaborate with DevSecOps to integrate cloud resources with CI/CD, testing, and telemetry.

Skills

Cloud architecture

AWS

Network engineering

IaC (Terraform/AWS CloudFormation)

Security & DoD standards

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Network Engineering, Information Technology or related field

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Job description

CFD Research is seeking a Cloud Solutions Engineer based in Dayton, OH, onsite. You will design and implement resilient cloud architecture-based solutions using AWS and modern cloud technologies to host, scale, and optimize performance for complex test infrastructure and research applications.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, apply robust network engineering and cloud engineering practices, and support onboarding and operation of high-throughput cloud workloads in a