Principal AWS Cloud Engineer - Enterprise Security & IaC

Netrolynx AI; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

MANTECH seeks a Principal AWS Cloud Engineer to lead the design, deployment, and security of the company’s primary AWS environment. You will be the main AWS authority in the enterprise cloud team, ensuring robust security and federal compliance.

The role emphasizes cloud security monitoring, threat detection, and cross-cloud alignment with Azure and OCI, driving automation, governance, and IaC pipelines for multi-account environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or related field preferred; 7+ years cloud engineering experience required.
• Active DoD 8570/8140 IAT Level II certification or ability to obtain within 30 days of hire.
• Strong knowledge of AWS core services (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, RDS, CloudFront, Lambda) and IaC tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, deployment, and security management of the AWS enterprise footprint.
• Architect and optimize automated cloud security monitoring and logging pipelines (Security Hub, GuardDuty, Config, CloudTrail, CloudWatch).
• Deploy IaC/CaC solutions using Terraform or CloudFormation in a code-first, audited workflow.
• Enforce IAM governance, SCPs, least-privilege access, and Zero Trust across multi-account AWS Organizations.
• Provide Tier 3 escalation support for complex cloud, network, security issues.
• Develop automation scripts in Python, Bash, or PowerShell to improve operations and telemetry.
• Collaborate with teams to align AWS security with Azure and OCI and document workflows for audit readiness.

Skills

AWS Cloud Security

Multi-account Governance

Terraform

IAM/VPC/RDS

Python/Bash/PowerShell

Zero Trust

Threat Detection

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT

4+ years relevant IT/engineering experience in lieu of degree

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Job description

MANTECH seeks a Principal AWS Cloud Engineer to lead the design, deployment, and security of the company’s primary AWS environment. You will be the main AWS authority in the enterprise cloud team, ensuring robust security and federal compliance.

The role emphasizes cloud security monitoring, threat detection, and cross-cloud alignment with Azure and OCI, driving automation, governance, and IaC pipelines for multi-account environments.