Cloud Engineer with Secret Clearance - IL5/IL6 Expert

BlueWater Federal Solutions; Montgomery (AL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bluewater Federal seeks a Cloud Engineer to support the USAF at Maxwell AFB. The role focuses on deploying, configuring, and sustaining cloud-hosted environments for critical logistics and maintenance systems.

Qualifications include a Bachelor’s degree and an active Secret clearance. The candidate will implement IaC, support cloud migrations, monitor performance and security, and handle networking, containers, and platform services in IL5/IL6 environments.

Qualifications

• Requires Bachelor’s degree.
• Active Secret clearance required.
• 5+ years of cloud engineering experience in IL5/IL6 environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and sustain cloud-hosted environments.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code solutions and automation.
• Support cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
• Monitor cloud performance, security, and resource utilization.
• Manage cloud networking, container, and platform services.
• Troubleshoot cloud infrastructure and operational issues.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Infrastructure as Code

Automation

Cloud migration

Cloud monitoring

Networking

Containers

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Security best practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

AWS GovCloud

Azure Cloud One

Terraform

CloudFormation

ARM

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

Bluewater Federal seeks a Cloud Engineer to support the USAF at Maxwell AFB. The role focuses on deploying, configuring, and sustaining cloud-hosted environments for critical logistics and maintenance systems.

Qualifications include a Bachelor’s degree and an active Secret clearance. The candidate will implement IaC, support cloud migrations, monitor performance and security, and handle networking, containers, and platform services in IL5/IL6 environments.