Cloud Infra Engineer — AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes

Akina Inc; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 225,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

24 days PTO and 11 federal holidays

Health costs covered for employees

401k with 10% company contribution

Educational assistance and training

Job summary

Akina Inc. in Annapolis Junction, MD seeks a senior SWE to design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure with IaC, automation, and scalable architectures.

The role focuses on modernization, migration roadmaps, and performance monitoring for mission-critical systems used by decision makers and warfighters globally. Responsibilities include building reusable modules with Terraform/CloudFormation, ensuring security, high availability, and cost optimization, and providing knowledge transfer

Qualifications

• Twenty (20) years’ experience as a SWE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• Experience provisioning, configuring, and managing cloud infrastructure and services (e.g., 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.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure, including modernization and migration roadmaps.
• Build reusable IaC modules (e.g., Helm Charts, Terraform) and enforce development standards.
• Monitor health and performance with logging and alerting; identify issues and improve efficiency.
• Develop disaster recovery, backup, and high-availability strategies; optimize cloud costs.
• Document architectures, runbooks, and operational procedures; transfer knowledge to internal teams.
• Migrate applications to cloud environments; configure and maintain cloud infrastructures.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Java

React

Linux OS

ActiveMQ/Kafka

Security

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Docker

Kubernetes/EKS/AKS/GKE

Job description

Akina Inc. in Annapolis Junction, MD seeks a senior SWE to design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure with IaC, automation, and scalable architectures.

The role focuses on modernization, migration roadmaps, and performance monitoring for mission-critical systems used by decision makers and warfighters globally. Responsibilities include building reusable modules with Terraform/CloudFormation, ensuring security, high availability, and cost optimization, and providing knowledge transfer