Remote AWS GovCloud Cloud Engineer: Automation & Security

Tripoint Solutions LLC; Charlotte (NC); Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Tripoint Solutions is seeking a Cloud Engineer to build, operate, and automate AWS GovCloud infrastructure for a federal education program. You will work with the cloud team, Salesforce, integration, and data teams to keep environments secure, available, and compliant.

This is a remote role open to candidates located in the United States. Applicants must be a U.S. citizen and able to obtain a government security clearance. Relocation is not provided.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree required in CS/Engineering/IT or related field.
• Minimum 5+ years in cloud engineering or operations.
• Hands-on AWS GovCloud and AWS services across compute, storage, networking, and identity.
• Experience integrating AWS with Salesforce and MuleSoft.

Responsibilities

• Provision, configure, and operate AWS GovCloud infrastructure (EC2, S3, EBS, RDS, VPCs, subnets, security groups).
• Author and maintain infrastructure as code (CloudFormation or Terraform).
• Build and support integrations between AWS and Salesforce (MuleSoft).
• Develop and maintain AWS Glue pipelines for secure data movement.
• Implement IAM, KMS, encryption, and least-privilege access; ensure security compliance.
• Integrate CI/CD pipelines with automated security validation and monitoring.
• Maintain deployment runbooks, rollback procedures, and change control artifacts.
• Automate operational tasks using Python and improve cost visibility via tagging and rightsizing.

Skills

Cloud engineering experience

Python automation

Linux system administration

CI/CD pipelines experience

Security best practices

Automation of manual work

Documentation and runbooks

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or a related field

Tools

AWS GovCloud

CloudFormation

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

MuleSoft

Salesforce integration

KMS

Python

Job description

Tripoint Solutions is seeking a Cloud Engineer to build, operate, and automate AWS GovCloud infrastructure for a federal education program. You will work with the cloud team, Salesforce, integration, and data teams to keep environments secure, available, and compliant.

This is a remote role open to candidates located in the United States. Applicants must be a U.S. citizen and able to obtain a government security clearance. Relocation is not provided.