Hybrid Cloud Automation Engineer (Terraform/AWS)

Swoop Technologies; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Swoop Technologies is seeking a DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our hybrid team in Washington, DC or Minneapolis-St. Paul. The role focuses on automating deployments, provisioning cloud resources, and ensuring security compliance across environments.

Responsibilities include Terraform with AWS, Kubernetes orchestration, and CI/CD workflow improvements. The ideal candidate has 3+ years in cloud provisioning and a security clearance or willingness to obtain one.

Qualifications

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Python

Bash scripting

CI/CD configuration

Dockerfiles reading/editing

Linux knowledge

Windows knowledge

Education

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

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Prometheus

Job description

Swoop Technologies is seeking a DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our hybrid team in Washington, DC or Minneapolis-St. Paul. The role focuses on automating deployments, provisioning cloud resources, and ensuring security compliance across environments.

Responsibilities include Terraform with AWS, Kubernetes orchestration, and CI/CD workflow improvements. The ideal candidate has 3+ years in cloud provisioning and a security clearance or willingness to obtain one.