Onsite AWS Cloud Engineer — TS/SCI (Arlington, VA)

Tetrad Digital Integrity LLC; Virginia (MN); On-site; USD 115,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Tetrad Digital Integrity LLC (TDI) is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer to support the CESO effort in Arlington, VA. The role requires 5 years of hands-on engineering and administration in virtualized IT environments with strong IaC and cloud design experience.

Key responsibilities include building and securing AWS-based architectures, managing CI/CD pipelines, and coordinating deployment and testing across on-prem and cloud environments. TS/SCI clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI Poly.
• BA/BS and 8-12 years of experience in Information Technology.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud services reinforced with architectural design experience.
• 4 years’ extensive experience in AWS Cloud Technologies and infrastructure-as-code concepts.
• 4 years’ experience in implementing Amazon C2S enabled architectures and tools including Ansible, Cloud Formation, Terraform, JMETER, EC2, ELB, RDS, Lambda, Docker, GIT and S3.
• 4 years’ experience in building end-to-end solutions on AWS leveraging OOP languages (Python, Ruby, Java, PHP) and AWS SDK.
• Experience with deployment orchestration, automation, and security configuration management (CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, Bitbucket).
• IAT Level II Baseline Certification (e.g. CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP).

Responsibilities

• Provide CI/CD engineering and release management.
• Design, build, and maintain AWS-based CESO architectures and tools.
• Configure and manage core AWS services (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, KMS, Config).
• Improve reliability via monitoring, alerting, incident response and continual service improvement.
• Automate deployments and operational tasks using scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Produce technical documentation (build guides, runbooks, diagrams, procedures).
• Manage integration and testing environments on on-prem and cloud to validate capabilities.
• Stage new and upgraded services to integration and testing environments.
• Develop improvements to cloud infrastructure to support CI/CD.
• Support deployment orchestration, automation, and security configuration management (GitLab, Bitbucket).
• Maintain code documentation for CESO environments.
• Support patching, logging, vulnerability scanning, and compliance tracking.
• Participate in the release management process.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies (stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives).
• Develop automation to reduce manual operations (provisioning, patching, backups, scaling, maintenance).

Skills

AWS Cloud

Ansible

CloudFormation

Terraform

EC2

S3

Lambda

Docker

GitLab

Bitbucket

Python

Ruby

Java

PHP

JMeter

Education

BA/BS

Tools

GitLab

Bitbucket

JMeter

CloudFormation

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Job description

Tetrad Digital Integrity LLC (TDI) is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer to support the CESO effort in Arlington, VA. The role requires 5 years of hands-on engineering and administration in virtualized IT environments with strong IaC and cloud design experience.

Key responsibilities include building and securing AWS-based architectures, managing CI/CD pipelines, and coordinating deployment and testing across on-prem and cloud environments. TS/SCI clearance is required.