Cloud Engineer – TS/SCI Cleared

GCI Incorporated; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

GCI Incorporated is seeking a Cloud Engineer (Software Engineer) to support AWS cloud environments, automation, and observability. The role involves managing containers, serverless services, and IaC while ensuring security and compliance across multi-account setups.

You will contribute to CI/CD pipelines, incident response, and on-call rotations, with emphasis on Linux systems, Terraform, and Kubernetes expertise in a mission-focused environment.

Qualifications

• Strong Linux/Unix administration and distributed systems troubleshooting.
• Experience deploying and supporting AWS services like EC2, S3, IAM, SQS, Lambda.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitHub, and GitLab.
• Familiarity with Terraform and CloudFormation for IaC.
• Experience with TLS/SSL, PKI, and OpenSSL.

Responsibilities

• Provide complex troubleshooting and support across distributed AWS cloud environments and enterprise applications.
• Perform OS upgrades, patching, and configuration for cloud hosted systems.
• Manage AWS resources (EC2, S3, IAM, SQS, Lambda, VPC) and serverless architectures.
• Build and maintain observability stacks using CloudWatch, ELK, and AppDynamics.
• Write automation scripts in Python or Bash to streamline tasks.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure promotion across environments.
• Assist with IaC using Terraform and CloudFormation.

Skills

Linux/Unix administration

AWS cloud

Docker & Kubernetes

Python scripting

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform/CloudFormation

TLS/SSL security

Serverless architectures

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub/GitLab

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

CloudWatch

ELK Stack

Job description

GCI Incorporated is seeking a Cloud Engineer (Software Engineer) to support AWS cloud environments, automation, and observability. The role involves managing containers, serverless services, and IaC while ensuring security and compliance across multi-account setups.

You will contribute to CI/CD pipelines, incident response, and on-call rotations, with emphasis on Linux systems, Terraform, and Kubernetes expertise in a mission-focused environment.