Cloud Engineer Principal

SAIC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC is hiring a Principal Cloud Engineer to manage cloud environments for a government customer. You will drive cloud solution selection, migrations, and capacity planning using AWS and/or Azure, with a strong emphasis on DevOps and FinOps tooling.

Responsibilities include IaC development with CloudFormation, Kion configurations, and cross‑functional leadership in Agile scrums. You must be a US citizen and eligible for a public trust.

Qualifications

• 12+ years IT experience with 8+ years hands-on cloud deployment experience.
• Hands-on in AWS or Azure with DevOps focus and cost management tooling.
• Experience with Kion, IAM, and infrastructure as code (CloudFormation).
• Proven track record in cloud cost optimization and resource governance.
• US citizenship and ability to obtain a public trust.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical, managerial and administrative direction for cloud projects.
• Deploy and configure workloads in AWS/Azure and manage Kion integration.
• Configure network, cloud services, and security controls for development teams.
• Lead cross-functional DevOps/Cloud collaborations and daily scrums.
• Identify opportunities to optimize cloud consumption and drive cost governance.

Skills

12+ years IT experience

hands-on AWS/Azure

DevOps focus

Kion FinOps tooling

Kion orgs and accounts

CloudFormation IaC

AWS Billing & Cost Explorer

cost optimization

ECS workload scaling

ALB high availability

RDS patching/optimization

Agile/Scrum participation

FedRAMP awareness

US citizenship

Tools

Kion

CloudFormation

AWS

Azure

OCI

GCP

ECS

RDS

ALB

IAM

Transit/Control Tower

Job description

Job Summary

SAIC is looking to hire a Principal Cloud Engineer to support our government customer. This resource will be responsible for managing cloud environments, possessing extensive skills and knowledge in cloud service provider selection, implementation techniques, application data migration techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements.

In addition to the duties required of a Cloud Engineer, a Cloud Engineer SME will provides technical, managerial, and administrative direction for problem definition, analysis, requirements development and implementation for complex to extremely complex systems within cloud infrastructure.

Required Qualifications, Skills, Experience or Certifications:

• 12+ years experience in information technology WITH 8+ years of focused, HANDS-ON experience deploying/configuring workloads within EITHER AWS or Azure - preferred experience is DevOps focused
• Hands-on experience installing, configuring, upgrading FinOps tools like Kion in AWS environments
• Experience in setting up Kion organizational units and account schemes, projects, linking Kion with Cloud Service Providers such as AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Google Cloud Provider (GCP)
• Hands-on expertise writing CloudFormation Infrastructure as Code templates for infrastructure deployment
• Hands-on experience with AWS Billing Conductor and Cost Explorer
• Proven track record of identifying AWS resource waste.
• Experience authoring Account, Subscriptions etc., Kion compliance scores and financial guardrails
• Experience with Kion for tracking cost allocation for resources such as container, ALB, RDS
• Experience managing and scaling applications inside AWS ECS clusters
• Proficient in configuring Application Load Balancers for high availability
• Experience scaling, patching, and optimizing RDS instances
• Experience participation in daily scrums, sprint planning, and retrospectives
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally with DevOps and Cloud teams
• Good understanding of FedRAMP services and best practices for their consumption
• Experience managing AWS Public and GovCloud across regions
• Demonstrated understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices across cloud service providers
• Knowledge of Agile Project Management methodologies
• Experience documenting requirements, user stories, and use cases
• Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and team environment
• Professional Architect Certification within EITHER AWS or Azure

Job Role Specific Requirements:

• Producing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or Configuration as Code (CaC), delivering solutions with a code first approach with sufficient comments and structure
• Collaborating with engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions
• Diagnosing and resolving complex performance, security, and/or technical challenges
• Supporting all tiers of applications deployed in the cloud, configuring network, cloud native services, infrastructure, and privileges for development teams
• Identifying opportunities for optimizing cloud consumption by the agency and providing strategic direction for addressing those opportunities
• Creating/updating cloud environment configurations within Kion to establish/support application workloads, including
  • Azure Focused: Configuration of Subscriptions, Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, load balancers, App Services, Azure Batch, Virtual Machines, resource tagging, billing, policy implementation, and security controls
  • AWS Focused: Configuration of AWS Accounts, IAM Users and Roles, VPCs, subnets, load balancers, Network routes, Transit Gateway, Control Tower, Systems Manager, Config Manager, stack sets, WAF, CloudFront, and Route53

Note:

Candidate must be a U.S. citizen and the ability to obtain a public trust