Cloud / System Engineering Lead (Senior)

DecisionPoint | Cortek; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

DecisionPoint | Cortek seeks a Senior Cloud / System Engineering Lead to guide cloud operations, enterprise systems, and modernization efforts supporting USMEPCOM ENLIST. The role emphasizes technical leadership across cloud environments, DNS, load balancers, and automation, with remote work and Chicago-area preference.

This senior position requires coordinating across infrastructure, network, cybersecurity, service-management, Government, and vendor teams to deliver secure, resilient cloud

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading cloud operations and enterprise systems.
• Strong knowledge of VPCs, DNS, load balancers, and cloud connectivity.
• Ability to collaborate with cybersecurity, gov teams, and service-management.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering support for cloud operations and hybrid-cloud services.
• Architect and optimize secure cloud solutions aligned with mission requirements.
• Configure and troubleshoot VPCs, DNS, load balancers, certificates, and connectivity.

Skills

Cloud leadership

Technical leadership

Hybrid-cloud

Automation

Incident response

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

AWS CloudFormation

Job description

Overview

DecisionPoint seeks a Senior Cloud / System Engineering Lead to provide engineering leadership for cloud operations, enterprise systems, infrastructure modernization, service restoration, and component lifecycle activities supporting the USMEPCOM ENLIST program.

The Cloud / System Engineering Lead will provide technical leadership for cloud environments, Virtual Private Clouds, Domain Name System services, load balancers, API connectivity, digital certificates, automation, and hybrid-cloud integration. This role will support the design, implementation, maintenance, troubleshooting, refresh, and restoration of cloud and enterprise infrastructure components.

The successful candidate will work with infrastructure, network, application, cybersecurity, service-management, Government, and vendor teams to deliver secure, resilient, scalable, and supportable cloud services.

This position is remote, with a preference for candidates located in the Chicago area. After-hours availability may be required during outages, maintenance windows, deployments, migrations, and infrastructure-refresh activities.

Note: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.

Duties & Responsibilities

The Cloud / System Engineering Lead will:

• Lead engineering support for cloud operations, enterprise systems, hybrid-cloud services, and associated infrastructure.
• Architect, design, implement, maintain, and optimize secure cloud solutions aligned with USMEPCOM operational and mission requirements.
• Configure, manage, monitor, and troubleshoot Virtual Private Clouds, subnets, routing, security groups, network access controls, and cloud connectivity.
• Engineer and maintain cloud-based Domain Name System services and integrations with enterprise DNS environments.
• Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot elastic load balancers and associated health checks, listener rules, certificates, and backend services.
• Support API connectivity, gateways, integrations, endpoints, authentication, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Implement, renew, monitor, and troubleshoot digital certificates used by cloud, application, network, and enterprise services.
• Support secure connectivity among cloud, on-premises, DISA-hosted, continuity, and remote environments.
• Develop and implement high-availability, fault-tolerant, scalable, and resilient cloud architectures.
• Monitor cloud availability, performance, capacity, utilization, service health, cost, and operational risk.
• Identify and resolve cloud, network, API, DNS, load-balancing, certificate, compute, storage, and connectivity issues.
• Provide senior technical support during cloud and enterprise-system outages.
• Participate in Outage Response Team activities and coordinate technical diagnosis, mitigation, workarounds, restoration, and service validation.
• Coordinate with network, systems, application, database, storage, cybersecurity, vendor, and Government teams during service restoration.
• Provide root-cause-analysis input and recommend corrective and preventive actions following incidents.
• Support cloud and systems installations, upgrades, migrations, component refreshes, lifecycle replacements, and modernization activities.
• Develop implementation plans, migration procedures, maintenance plans, test steps, validation criteria, rollback procedures, and outage contingencies.
• Lead technical preparation and execution for approved infrastructure changes and deployment activities.
• Support server, storage, virtualization, network appliance, software, and cloud-service lifecycle management.
• Ensure cloud and system components are accurately recorded in applicable asset, configuration, and lifecycle repositories.
• Support equipment and software refresh, disposition, inventory-validation, and documentation activities.
• Develop automation for cloud infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, deployment, monitoring, and operational maintenance.
• Use Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, or equivalent technologies.
• Support integration of cloud capabilities with software-defined data-center, VMware, continuity-of-operations, and on-premises environments.
• Support workload mobility, enterprise service orchestration, automated recovery, and hybrid-cloud operations.
• Design and implement backup, restoration, disaster-recovery, high-availability, and service-continuity capabilities.
• Evaluate technical requirements, establish engineering priorities, develop schedules, estimate costs, and document recommended solutions.
• Prepare high-level concepts of operations, architecture documents, engineering designs, configuration standards, and service-design packages.
• Assess infrastructure changes for security, availability, performance, supportability, interoperability, and mission impact.
• Support implementation of applicable DISA STIGs, DoD security controls, IAVAs, CND Di