Cloud Engineer (TS/SCI) – On-Site, AWS & Kubernetes

GCI; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 187,000 - 318,000; Full time

Job summary

GCI in Herndon, VA is seeking a Cloud Engineer (Software Engineer) with TS/SCI with Poly. This on-site, full-time role focuses on cloud operations, observability, and DevOps across AWS environments and enterprise apps.

You will manage containers, serverless services, and IaC with Terraform/CloudFormation, while maintaining security controls and deploying robust CI/CD pipelines. US citizenship and active TS/SCI with Polygraph are required.

Qualifications

• Strong Linux/Unix administration and distributed systems troubleshooting.
• Experience supporting enterprise web applications (Tomcat) and AWS services.
• Experience with CloudWatch, ELK stack, and AppDynamics.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Experience with TLS/SSL, PKI, OpenSSL, encryption ciphers.
• Experience with serverless applications and microservices.
• Strong AWS CLI proficiency. Experience with MySQL.

Responsibilities

• Provide complex troubleshooting across distributed AWS cloud environments and enterprise applications.
• Perform advanced OS upgrades, patching, and configuration for cloud hosted systems.
• Manage AWS resources including EC2, S3, IAM, SQS, Lambda, STS, and VPC.
• Build, monitor, and maintain observability stacks using CloudWatch and ELK.
• Write automation scripts in Python, Bash, or Shell for operations.
• Support CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub, and GitLab.
• Assist with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Deploy and manage Kubernetes and Docker containers and serverless workloads.
• Support security controls, compliance artifacts, and on-call duties.

Skills

Linux/Unix

AWS EC2

AWS S3

AWS IAM

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Terraform

CloudFormation

TLS/SSL/OpenSSL

Serverless

MySQL

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitHub

GitLab

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

GCI in Herndon, VA is seeking a Cloud Engineer (Software Engineer) with TS/SCI with Poly. This on-site, full-time role focuses on cloud operations, observability, and DevOps across AWS environments and enterprise apps.

You will manage containers, serverless services, and IaC with Terraform/CloudFormation, while maintaining security controls and deploying robust CI/CD pipelines. US citizenship and active TS/SCI with Polygraph are required.