Cloud Infrastructure Engineer – IT Specialist (GS-11/09)

CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is seeking a qualified IT professional to support cloud-based services and infrastructure across the agency. The role involves deployment, configuration, monitoring, and automation to ensure secure and reliable operations in AWS and related environments.

The position emphasizes experience with Python/Java, CI/CD tooling, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud security governance to align with OPM standards and federal IT management practices.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting the development, deployment, configuration, monitoring, or troubleshooting of cloud applications and services, such as AWS compute, storage, databases, or serverless services.
• Experience providing programming, scripting, automation, infrastructure-as-code, or CI/CD tools to support cloud operations, such as Python, Java, React, Terraform, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
• Experience applying established cloud security, governance, and operational procedures, such as access controls, configuration standards, change management, and system monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Support the secure, reliable, and innovative infrastructure that enables the agency's mission.
• Collaborate with professionals responsible for cloud and network services, engineering platforms, systems architecture, storage, firewalls, and other critical technology capabilities.
• Meet OPM qualification requirements and adhere to competency standards for IT management.

Skills

Cloud computing

Python

Java

React

CI/CD tooling

Infrastructure as code

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Cloud security governance

Incident response

Tools

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is seeking a qualified IT professional to support cloud-based services and infrastructure across the agency. The role involves deployment, configuration, monitoring, and automation to ensure secure and reliable operations in AWS and related environments.

The position emphasizes experience with Python/Java, CI/CD tooling, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud security governance to align with OPM standards and federal IT management practices.