Cloud Engineer Junior - Secret Clearance

Dunhill Professional Search & Government Solutions; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Dunhill Professional Search & Government Solutions seeks a Cloud Engineer - Journeyman to design and implement secure multi‑cloud and hybrid infrastructures in Arlington, VA. You will build IaC pipelines, manage cloud networking, and enforce governance for government workloads.

Responsibilities include security controls, monitoring, DR planning, and CI/CD integration with container runtimes. Requires an active Secret clearance and 4–7 years’ relevant experience in enterprise or government

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Design multi‑cloud and hybrid cloud architectures with security, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates, and automation pipelines.
• Engineer cloud networking including VPCs, subnets, routing, peering, and secure connectivity to on‑premises networks.
• Configure and manage cloud security services and controls (IAM, security groups, key management) to meet government requirements.
• Implement cloud monitoring and observability (CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Stackdriver, Elastic, Splunk) for operations and incident response.
• Optimize resource usage with rightsizing, reserved/spot instances, and performance tuning.
• Design and test disaster recovery and business continuity with multi‑region architectures and recovery playbooks.
• Support DevOps by integrating CI/CD pipelines with cloud platforms and container orchestration.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Security governance

Observability

Disaster recovery

Incident response

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT / Cybersecurity / CS / IS / Data Science / SWE

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

ARM templates

Automation pipelines

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Active Secret Security Clearance Required

Compensation range - $80,000- 120,000

The Cloud Engineer - Journeyman designs, engineers, and integrates secure, scalable multi‑cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructures that underpin mission‑critical enterprise systems in highly regulated government environments. The role focuses on implementing Infrastructure as Code, cloud automation, and governance controls to standardize provisioning, enforce guardrails, and maintain compliant operations across major public cloud platforms. The engineer collaborates with security, networking, and application teams to modernize legacy workloads, improve observability and disaster recovery, and document architectures and operational patterns for ongoing support.

This is a hybrid position based in Arlington, VA.

Key Responsibilities

Design and implement multi‑cloud and hybrid cloud architectures across major public cloud platforms to support enterprise workloads with strong emphasis on security, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates, and automation pipelines to standardize and automate cloud resource provisioning.

Engineer cloud networking constructs including virtual networks/VPCs, subnets, routing, peering, and secure connectivity (VPN, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute) integrated with on‑premises enterprise networks.

Configure and manage cloud security services and controls such as IAM, security groups, key management, configuration monitoring, and threat detection to align with government security and cloud governance requirements.

Implement cloud monitoring, logging, and observability solutions (e.g., CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Stackdriver, Elastic, Splunk) to provide operational visibility, detect anomalies, and support incident response activities.

Optimize cloud resource utilization through rightsizing, scaling policies, use of reserved and spot instances, and performance tuning to manage spend while meeting service level objectives.

Design and test disaster recovery and business continuity strategies for cloud workloads, including backup, replication, multi‑region architectures, and documented recovery playbooks for mission‑critical systems.

Support DevOps practices by integrating CI/CD pipelines with cloud platforms, container orchestration tools, and configuration management solutions to streamline deployments and reduce operational risk.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in IT, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.

Approximately 4-7 years of hands‑on experience in cloud engineering, automation, and security within enterprise or government environments, including multi‑cloud or hybrid architectures.

Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or ARM templates and supporting automated deployment pipelines.

Demonstrated experience configuring and managing cloud networking, identity and access management, and security controls in at least one major public cloud provider.

Experience implementing and operating cloud monitoring and logging solutions and supporting incident response in production environments.

Must hold an active Secret clearance and meet applicable DoD 8140 requirements.

Must be a US Citizen.

Preferred Qualifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer.

Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes in production cloud environments.

Experience working in federal or other highly regulated enterprise IT environments with formal cloud governance frameworks.