Cloud Engineer with Secret Clearance & IL5/IL6 Expertise

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

Job summary

Bluewater Federal is looking for a Cloud Engineer to support the USAF at Maxwell AFB. The Base Maintenance (BMx) Family of Systems program provides critical lifecycle support for enterprise U.S.

Air Force logistics and maintenance systems that enable global mission readiness and sustainment operations. Responsibilities include deploying, configuring, and sustaining cloud-hosted environments, IaC automation, and cloud migrations, with monitoring of performance and security.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 5+ years of cloud engineering experience—supporting IL5/IL6 cloud environments preferred.
• Active Secret clearance required.
• Experience with AWS GovCloud, Azure Cloud One, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform/CloudFormation/ARM, Cloud monitoring, Networking, Containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Administrator/Architect and Security+ certs are 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

AWS GovCloud

Azure Cloud

Terraform

CloudFormation

ARM templates

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Cloud monitoring

Networking

Security+ certs

Secret clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

ARM

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

Bluewater Federal is looking for a Cloud Engineer to support the USAF at Maxwell AFB. The Base Maintenance (BMx) Family of Systems program provides critical lifecycle support for enterprise U.S.

Air Force logistics and maintenance systems that enable global mission readiness and sustainment operations. Responsibilities include deploying, configuring, and sustaining cloud-hosted environments, IaC automation, and cloud migrations, with monitoring of performance and security.