Remote AWS GovCloud Engineer - Automation & Security

Tripoint Solutions LLC; Colorado Springs (CO); Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

FSA & HSA

Company-paid Life and Disability

Supplemental Insurance

Paid time off (PTO)

11 paid holidays

401(k) Retirement Plan

Professional Development Reimbursement

Monthly transportation, parking, and 1

Cell phone reimbursement

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Di

Job summary

Tripoint Solutions seeks a Cloud Engineer to build, operate, and automate AWS GovCloud infrastructure for a federal education program. You will collaborate with cloud, Salesforce, integration, and data teams to keep environments secure, available, and compliant, replacing manual work with automation. Location: Remote; eligible states listed.

No relocation assistance. You will replace manual operational tasks with scalable automation and work within a strong security posture to support

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering or operations.
• Hands-on AWS GovCloud experience.
• Experience with AWS compute, storage, networking, and identity (VPC, subnets, routing, Route 53, VPN/Direct Connect).
• Experience integrating AWS with Salesforce and MuleSoft.
• Hands-on AWS Glue experience.
• Infrastructure as code experience with CloudFormation or Terraform.
• Proficiency in IAM, KMS, least-privilege access.
• Linux system administration.
• Python for automation.
• CI/CD with GitHub Actions/GitLab/Jenkins.
• Git and version-controlled workflows.
• Cloud security principles and hardening.

Responsibilities

• Provision, configure, and operate AWS GovCloud infrastructure (EC2, S3, EBS, RDS, VPCs).
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code in version control with automated validation.
• Build and support integrations between AWS and Salesforce (MuleSoft).
• Develop and maintain AWS Glue pipelines for secure data movement.
• Implement S3 lifecycle, tiering, and retention policies.
• Secure data services with least-privilege access, encryption, network isolation.
• Manage IAM policies, KMS, and secrets management.
• Incorporate automated security scanning and dependency validation into CI/CD.
• Support STIG, RMF, ATO activities and vulnerability remediation.
• Maintain deployment runbooks, rollback procedures, and change control artifacts.
• Improve cost visibility via tagging, rightsizing, cleanup of resources.
• Automate operational tasks with Python.

Skills

AWS GovCloud

Cloud engineering

Python scripting

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD pipelines

AWS networking

MuleSoft integration

Security hardening

GitHub Actions

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Git

Jenkins

MuleSoft

AWS Glue

Job description

Tripoint Solutions seeks a Cloud Engineer to build, operate, and automate AWS GovCloud infrastructure for a federal education program. You will collaborate with cloud, Salesforce, integration, and data teams to keep environments secure, available, and compliant, replacing manual work with automation. Location: Remote; eligible states listed.

No relocation assistance. You will replace manual operational tasks with scalable automation and work within a strong security posture to support