Hands-On AWS Cloud Engineer & DoD Governance Lead

Securepro Inc; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

401(k) matching

Bonus based on performance

Competitive salary

Dental insurance

Flexible schedule

Health insurance

Paid time off

Training & development

Vision insurance

Wellness resources

Job summary

SecurePro Inc. is seeking a hands-on Senior AWS Cloud Engineer / Cloud Implementation Lead to drive a DoD cloud governance, modernization, and gamification initiative.

This role will lead AWS-first technical delivery, build dashboards and data ingestion workflows, and help scale an MVP into a repeatable cloud governance capability across DoD systems. You will coordinate with government stakeholders, cybersecurity teams, and program leadership, document solutions, and troubleshoot across

Qualifications

• 5+ years of AWS cloud engineering or related fields.
• Hands-on experience designing, deploying, or supporting AWS solutions.
• Experience with federal, DoD, or government customers.
• Strong understanding of cloud governance, security, logging, monitoring, tagging, automation, and operational best practices.
• Experience with dashboards, metrics, reporting, data pipelines, APIs, or scoring models.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery, backlog management, sprint planning, and stakeholder coordination.
• Ability to lead implementation activities independently with minimal supervision.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to translate technical progress, risks, and dependencies into leadership-level updates.
• U.S. Citizenship required due to federal contract requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day AWS-based cloud governance MVP implementation.
• Design and implement cloud data ingestion, scoring, dashboarding, and reporting workflows.
• Coordinate with DoD stakeholders, system owners, cybersecurity teams, and program leadership.
• Support MVP implementation for initial DoD systems and scale to additional systems.
• Develop dashboards and reporting views for technical users, program stakeholders, and leadership.
• Support scoring models for cloud maturity, security posture, cost optimization, and modernization progress.
• Work with RMF/ATO support personnel to ensure security and compliance.
• Support AWS architecture, implementation, and integration using services such as S3, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, Security Hub, IAM, KMS, ECS/Fargate, Athena/Glue, QuickSight, or similar.
• Help containerize and package the capability for deployment across multiple systems.
• Design for future multi-cloud extensibility including Azure and Google Cloud.
• Support API-based integrations and reusable ingestion patterns.
• Develop technical documentation, onboarding guides, deployment notes, and playbooks.
• Manage backlog, milestones, risks, dependencies, and technical blockers.
• Participate in stakeholder meetings, technical reviews, demos, and user acceptance testing.
• Provide clear written and verbal updates to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

AWS cloud engineering

DevOps

Public sector/government

Stakeholder coordination

Agile delivery

Documentation

Troubleshooting

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

AWS Certification

Tools

AWS GovCloud

Lambda

API Gateway

CloudWatch

CloudTrail

AWS Config

Security Hub

IAM

KMS

ECS/Fargate

Athena/Glue

QuickSight

Grafana

Power BI

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

SecurePro Inc. is seeking a hands-on Senior AWS Cloud Engineer / Cloud Implementation Lead to drive a DoD cloud governance, modernization, and gamification initiative.

This role will lead AWS-first technical delivery, build dashboards and data ingestion workflows, and help scale an MVP into a repeatable cloud governance capability across DoD systems. You will coordinate with government stakeholders, cybersecurity teams, and program leadership, document solutions, and troubleshoot across