Cloud Systems Engineer — Multi-Cloud & DevSecOps

SMX; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 103,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid leave

Retirement plan

Job summary

SMX is seeking a Cloud Systems Engineer (Junior to SME) to design and implement secure, scalable multi-cloud infrastructure supporting USAF missions. You will onboard accounts, patch, build pipelines, and deploy primarily in AWS with familiarity in Azure, Google, and Oracle.

You will contribute to strategy, engineer solutions across enclaves, and apply IaC, automation, and security best practices to meet Air Force requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent certification; junior requires 1–3 years, senior up to 8, SME up to 16+.
• Active Secret security clearance required.
• DoD 8570 compliant: CompTia Sec+.
• Experience with cloud architectures and multi-cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and optimize secure cloud solutions in AWS, Azure, Google, or Oracle.
• Lead or support cloud migration strategies across classified and unclassified networks.
• Implement automation for provisioning, security, and monitoring using DevOps practices.
• Develop technical documentation and cloud migration strategies.

Skills

Cloud architectures

Kubernetes

Terraform

Jenkins

Ansible

CloudFormation

DevOps practices

IaC

Security clearance

CompTia Sec+

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent certification

Tools

Packer

AWS CodePipeline

Job description

SMX is seeking a Cloud Systems Engineer (Junior to SME) to design and implement secure, scalable multi-cloud infrastructure supporting USAF missions. You will onboard accounts, patch, build pipelines, and deploy primarily in AWS with familiarity in Azure, Google, and Oracle.

You will contribute to strategy, engineer solutions across enclaves, and apply IaC, automation, and security best practices to meet Air Force requirements.