Cloud Geolocation Engineer — Real-Time Infra & IaC

Amentum; Hanover (MD); On-site; USD 245,000 - 285,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off and holidays

Retirement benefits (401(k) matching)

Educational reimbursement

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Tax-saving options

Disability and life insurance

Pet insurance

Job summary

Amentum is seeking a senior SWE to design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure for real-time geolocation solutions used by decision makers and warfighters worldwide.

You will contribute across the full systems engineering lifecycle—requirements, design, testing, deployment in cloud environments—producing runbooks, architectures, and operational procedures while advancing security, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Experience provisioning, configuring, and managing cloud infrastructure and services (compute, storage, networking, IAM).
• Experience designing and implementing secure, scalable cloud architectures.
• Experience developing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, etc.
• Knowledge of containers and platform workloads (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS/AKS/GKE).
• Experience configuring monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, etc. and responding to incidents.
• Experience implementing and testing backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability strategies.
• Experience managing secrets and key management with tools such as KMS/KeyVault/Secret Manager, certificates, and rotation policies.
• Experience optimizing cloud cost and performance (e.g., tagging, budgets, rightsizing, autoscaling) and producing usage/cost reports.
• Experience troubleshooting cloud infrastructure issues across networking (DNS, routing, VPN), security, and service limits.
• Experience documenting architectures, runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Experience with Linux OS

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure and governance-compliant systems.
• Build reusable modules (e.g., Helm charts) and enforce IaC standards.
• Develop Java and React-based applications and services.
• Monitor health and performance; address incidents and optimize efficiency.
• Plan for failure/recovery, cost optimization, and cloud service benefits.
• Participate in continuous improvement; deliver architectures and runbooks.
• Provide knowledge transfer to internal teams and stakeholders.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and enhancements.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Cloud architecture

Infrastructure as Code

Containers

Cloud monitoring

Backup and DR

Secrets management

Cost optimization

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Linux

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Job description

Amentum is seeking a senior SWE to design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure for real-time geolocation solutions used by decision makers and warfighters worldwide.

You will contribute across the full systems engineering lifecycle—requirements, design, testing, deployment in cloud environments—producing runbooks, architectures, and operational procedures while advancing security, reliability, and cost efficiency.