Cloud Security Tech Support

230 LST in; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) seeks a Technology Specialist to secure FAA cloud environments, deploy secure cloud-native apps, and ensure compliance with FAA standards across AWS, Azure and hybrid clouds.

You will collaborate with engineering, operations, and cybersecurity teams to implement security baselines, monitor security findings, and develop automated remediation using Terraform, Lambda, and Python to maintain resilient, compliant IT systems.

Qualifications

• Experience securing cloud environments with FAA/NIST standards.
• Proficient in AWS and Azure security services and hybrid clouds.
• Ability to implement security baselines and monitor findings.
• Familiar with IAM, firewall configuration, and perimeter defense.

Responsibilities

• Develop, deploy, and maintain secure cloud-native applications and infrastructure in FAA-approved cloud environments (AWS, Azure, hybrid).
• Implement and maintain security baselines for cloud resources per FAA, NIST, CIS benchmarks, and FedRAMP where applicable.
• Configure, monitor, and optimize native security services to identify and remediate findings.
• Develop automated remediation workflows using Lambda, Systems Manager Automation, EventBridge, Python, or similar.

Skills

Cloud security

AWS/Azure

IaC

Automation

NIST 800-53

Tools

AWS Security Hub

GuardDuty

Terraform

Lambda

Config

Job description

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is seeking a highly skilled Technology Specialist to serve as a Cloud Security Tech Support. The candidate will support FAA development tenants with the integration, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of cloud environments, ensuring operational efficiency, system reliability, and compliance with FAA standards.
This role will focus on securing and supporting FAA cloud environments while also ensuring proper network security, firewall configuration, and perimeter defense. The specialist will work closely with engineering, operations, and cybersecurity teams to maintain secure, compliant, and highly available IT systems.

Job Duties & Responsibilities - Essential Job Functions may include, but are not limited to, the following

• Develop, deploy, and maintain secure cloud-native applications and infrastructure within FAA-approved cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and hybrid cloud environments).
• Implement and maintain security hardening baselines for cloud resources, including EC2 instances, container platforms, storage services, virtual networks, databases, and serverless services in accordance with FAA security standards, NIST 800-53, CIS Benchmarks, DISA STIGs (where applicable), and FedRAMP requirements.
• Configure, monitor, and optimize AWS Security Hub, AWS GuardDuty, AWS Inspector, AWS Config, AWS CloudTrail, AWS IAM Access Analyzer, and similar native cloud security services to continuously identify and remediate security findings.
• Develop automated remediation workflows for cloud security findings using AWS Lambda, Systems Manager Automation, EventBridge, PowerShell, Python, or similar automation technologies.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform,