Cloud Engineer I – Federal Cloud, Clearance Required

Viateq Corporation; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental/vision insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

12 federal holidays

Professional development reimbursement

Job summary

VIATEQ is seeking a Junior Cloud Engineer in Washington, DC to join a focused, agile team supporting cloud modernization for a federal agency. You will assist in design, implementation, and day-to-day support across Azure, AWS, and GCP while growing technical skills under senior engineers.

A Secret Clearance is required. Responsibilities include CI/CD, IaC, scripting, and collaboration with cross-functional teams in a security-conscious environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelors or higher in a related field from an accredited college/university.
• Minimum of one entry-level cloud certification (AZ-900, AWS Practitioner, Google Cloud Digital Leader or Associate Cloud Engineer).
• At least 2 years in cloud computing/engineering with Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Active Secret Clearance or higher.

Responsibilities

• Assist in design, implementation, and day-to-day support of cloud solutions across Azure, AWS, and/or GCP.
• Support cloud service offerings at FISMA Moderate/High levels.
• Collaborate with senior engineers, Scrum Master, and security engineers to improve services.
• Help build and maintain YAML-based CI/CD pipelines using common tools.
• Contribute to IaC efforts with Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, etc.
• Develop basic automation scripts in PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and team improvements.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Scripting languages

CI/CD pipelines

IaC concepts

DevOps practices

Agile & Scrum

Communication in English

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/related field

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Ansible

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

CircleCI

Job description

VIATEQ is seeking a Junior Cloud Engineer in Washington, DC to join a focused, agile team supporting cloud modernization for a federal agency. You will assist in design, implementation, and day-to-day support across Azure, AWS, and GCP while growing technical skills under senior engineers.

A Secret Clearance is required. Responsibilities include CI/CD, IaC, scripting, and collaboration with cross-functional teams in a security-conscious environment.