Cloud Systems Engineer

Swoop Technologies; Fort Snelling Unorganized Territory (MN); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Swoop Technologies is hiring for a hybrid Cloud DevOps Engineer to join our infrastructure team. The role focuses on automating deployments, provisioning resources, and ensuring secure, scalable cloud environments across on-prem, AWS, and other cloud providers.

You will collaborate with security engineers and client teams to maintain compliance with NIST and STIG controls, while refining Terraform scripts and GitLab CI/CD configurations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent technical experience in CS or related field.
• 3+ years in cloud provisioning and management.
• Understanding of CI/CD configuration and buildout (e.g., gitlab.yaml).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting; Linux/Windows knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Build automation around monitoring of cloud resource health and usage.
• Ensure cloud apps meet security standards (NIST, STIG).
• Automate cloud provisioning with Terraform and Ansible.
• Streamline deployment, run, and test processes in cloud environments.
• Scale cloud and orchestration mechanisms for performance and efficiency.
• Support updates to client installations and monitor resources.

Skills

Python scripting

Bash scripting

Cloud provisioning

CI/CD knowledge

Linux administration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

AWS

Prometheus

Job description

About Swoop:

Swoop Technologies has a mission to organize and make accessible the world’s military and critical infrastructure. We are building a distributed operating system, SwoopOS, that decomposes the world’s equipment into a distributed robotic embodiment upon which a new generation of distributed systems, autonomous systems, and agentic AI can be built and deployed using our SDK, Valhalla, and operated via our browser, Surf. Imagine the world’s equipment - consisting of the electrical grid, communications architectures, manufacturing facilities, and militaries as a trapped supply of inputs possessing the potential to ensure Western military advantage, sovereign control of economically competitive manufacturing capacity, or the creation of a grid that fosters energy dominance. Swoop is liberating these trapped assets, allowing them to contribute to the world’s future as a series of building blocks to be combined at the speed of software, limited by only the hard constraints of physics and the soft constraints of safety. That is what Swoop is building. Not in the data center or cloud or edge on-premise computing node. In the physical world.

This is a hybrid position that requires someone based in Minneapolis/St. Paul or Washington, DC who can work in-office 3+ days per week

Impact:

You will work with the existing infrastructure and deployment team to automate, scale and test deployments of Swoop Technologies’ products. Deployments may include secure, airgapped, on prem, remote, bare metal and cloud environments. Currently, deployments are closely tied to a gitlab CI/CD infrastructure. Day to day tasks will include spinning up and down AWS resources to support code development and testing, refining Terraform provisioning scripts, monitoring and building out profiling metrics, and securing overall cloud presence.

What You’ll Do:

• Building out automation around monitoring of cloud resource health and usage

• Working with security engineers to ensure NIST, STIG compliance of cloud applications

• Automation of cloud resource provisioning using Terraform and Ansible

• Streamlining the process by which developers deploy, run and test code in cloud environments

• Enabling appropriate cloud and orchestration scaling mechanisms to ensure ideal balance of performance and resource use efficiency

• Support code and resource updates of client installations

• Work with client engineers to monitor and fine tune their resources

You Should Have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience

• 3+ yrs in cloud provisioning and management

• Understanding of basic software security standards, CI/CD configuration, and buildout (i.e. configuring gitlab.yaml files)

• Code containerization (reading and editing Dockerfiles); Container orchestration (Kubernetes); Provisioning (Terraform); Cloud Deployments (AWS); Resource monitoring (Promethius)

• Linux, CentOS, Windows knowledge

• Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting

• Active US Security clearance OR ability and willingness to be sponsored for a US Security clearance

Bonus if you have:

• AWS Certifications

• Experience working in AWS gov cloud

• Competent in networking and virtualization (firewalls, IP tables, virtual environments, containerization, VMWare, application ingress, etc).

• Test/QA automation

• Code quality and security scanning using tools such as SonarQube

Swoop Technologies is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.