Federal Cloud Engineer - AWS GovCloud & Automation

Tripoint Solutions LLC; Bastrop (LA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

FSA & HSA

Company-paid Life and Disability

11 paid holidays

401(k) Retirement Plan

Professional Development Reimbursement

Transportation, parking, and cellPhone

Equal Opportunity Employer

Job summary

Tripoint Solutions LLC is seeking a Cloud Engineer to build, operate, and automate AWS GovCloud infrastructure for a federal education program. You will collaborate with cloud, Salesforce, and data teams to keep environments secure, available, and compliant, while ensuring continuous delivery and robust security processes.

The role requires 5+ years in cloud engineering, hands-on GovCloud experience, and a strong background in AWS services, IAM/KMS, Python, and CI/CD automation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering or operations.
• Hands-on AWS GovCloud experience.
• Hands-on AWS across compute, storage, networking, and identity (VPC, subnets, routing, Route 53, load balancing, VPN/Direct Connect).
• Experience integrating AWS with Salesforce and hands-on MuleSoft.
• Hands-on AWS Glue experience.
• Proficiency with IAM policy design, KMS, and least-privilege access models.
• Linux system administration.
• Python for automation and scripting.
• CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins.
• Cloud security concepts and hardening practices.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Assoc/Pro) or AWS Certified SysOps Admin; Salesforce or MuleSoft cert.

Responsibilities

• Provision, configure, and operate AWS GovCloud infra (EC2, S3, EBS, RDS, VPCs, subnets, SGs, Route 53).
• Build and support integrations between AWS and Salesforce (MuleSoft-based).
• Maintain AWS Glue pipelines for secure data movement.
• Implement S3 lifecycle, tiering, retention; secure RDS and data services with least privilege/encryption.
• Manage IAM policies, KMS, secrets; automate security scanning and monitoring in CI/CD.
• Support STIG, RMF, ATO activities and vulnerability remediation on contract timelines.
• Maintain runbooks, rollback procedures, and change control artifacts for high availability.
• Automate operations with Python.

Skills

Cloud engineering

AWS GovCloud

Python

CI/CD

Linux

Security best practices

VPC design

IAM/KMS

Salesforce integration

MuleSoft

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/IT

Tools

EC2

S3

EBS

RDS

VPC design

Route 53

MuleSoft

Salesforce

KMS

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

ACAS

Nessus

CloudWatch

Splunk

Job description

Tripoint Solutions LLC is seeking a Cloud Engineer to build, operate, and automate AWS GovCloud infrastructure for a federal education program. You will collaborate with cloud, Salesforce, and data teams to keep environments secure, available, and compliant, while ensuring continuous delivery and robust security processes.

The role requires 5+ years in cloud engineering, hands-on GovCloud experience, and a strong background in AWS services, IAM/KMS, Python, and CI/CD automation.