Cloud Engineer (TS/SCI) - AWS, Kubernetes & IaC Expert

acclaimtechnicalservices; Maryland; On-site; USD 240,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Retirement plan

Employee Ownership (ESOP)

Job summary

Acclaim Technical Services, founded in 2000, is a leading language, operations, and technology services company supporting a wide range of U.S. Federal agencies.

We are actively hiring a Cloud Engineer with TS/SCI clearance and polygraph for a Prime contract in Annapolis Junction, MD. The role focuses on designing and maintaining our customer’s next-generation cloud infrastructure on AWS, leveraging IaC, Ansible, and Kubernetes to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in Cloud Engineering/DevOps/Software Engineering.
• AWS hands-on experience; certification preferred.
• IaC with OpenTofu and/or Terraform.
• Kubernetes experience (EKS).
• Python automation scripting.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage AWS infrastructure using OpenTofu/Terraform.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts with Ansible.
• Manage and scale containerized apps using Kubernetes (EKS).
• Use Git for version control within CI/CD pipelines.
• Write Python scripts to automate tasks and integrate systems.
• Architect and manage core AWS services (EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM).
• Implement monitoring and logging for reliability and security.
• Apply security practices compliant with STE/STN standards.

Skills

AWS

IaC

Kubernetes

Ansible

Git

Python scripting

Networking

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

10 years of overall experience in lieu of degree

Tools

OpenTofu

Terraform

Job description

Acclaim Technical Services, founded in 2000, is a leading language, operations, and technology services company supporting a wide range of U.S. Federal agencies.

We are actively hiring a Cloud Engineer with TS/SCI clearance and polygraph for a Prime contract in Annapolis Junction, MD. The role focuses on designing and maintaining our customer’s next-generation cloud infrastructure on AWS, leveraging IaC, Ansible, and Kubernetes to deliver secure, scalable solutions.