Remote Cloud Engineer: AWS GovCloud & Automation

Tripoint Solutions LLC; Arkansas City (KS); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

PTO

Holidays

Dev reimbursement

Transport reimbursement

Phone stipend

Job summary

Tripoint Solutions LLC is seeking a Cloud Engineer to build, operate, and automate AWS GovCloud infrastructure for a federal education program. You’ll collaborate with the cloud, Salesforce, integration, and data teams to maintain secure, available environments and replace manual tasks with automation.

Location: Remote. You will be located in or willing to relocate to one of the supported states. This role requires a government security clearances and federal contracting experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering or operations.
• Hands-on AWS GovCloud experience.
• Hands-on AWS experience across compute, storage, networking, and identity, including VPC design, subnetting, routing, peering, Route 53, load balancing, and VPN or Direct Connect.
• Experience integrating AWS with Salesforce, and hands-on MuleSoft experience.
• Hands-on AWS Glue experience.
• Hands-on infrastructure as code experience with CloudFormation or Terraform.
• Proficiency with IAM policy design, KMS, and least-privilege access models.
• Linux system administration.
• Proficiency in Python for automation and scripting.
• Hands-on CI/CD pipeline experience using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent.
• Experience with Git and version-controlled infrastructure workflows.
• Working knowledge of cloud security principles and hardening practices.
• A demonstrated track record of automating manual operational work.

Responsibilities

• Provision, configure, and operate AWS GovCloud infrastructure, including EC2, S3, EBS, RDS, VPCs, subnets, security groups, and Route 53.
• Author and maintain infrastructure as code (CloudFormation or Terraform) in version control with automated validation.
• Build and support integrations between AWS and Salesforce, including MuleSoft-based interfaces.
• Build and maintain AWS Glue pipelines that move data securely between source systems.
• Implement S3 lifecycle, tiering, and retention policies.
• Secure RDS and other data services with least-privilege access, encryption, and network isolation.
• Implement and maintain IAM policies, KMS key management, and secrets management.
• Build automated security scanning, dependency validation, and continuous monitoring into CI/CD pipelines.
• Support STIG implementation, Risk Management Framework and Authority to Operate activities, and vulnerability remediation on contractual timelines.
• Maintain deployment runbooks, rollback procedures, and change control artifacts that support high-availability standards.
• Improve cost visibility through tagging, rightsizing, and cleanup of orphaned resources.
• Automate operational work using Python.

Skills

Cloud engineering

AWS GovCloud

Python automation

CI/CD pipelines

Security hardening

Linux administration

IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform)

MuleSoft integration

Salesforce integration

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

CloudFormation

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

MuleSoft

Salesforce integration

AWS GovCloud

Job description

Tripoint Solutions LLC is seeking a Cloud Engineer to build, operate, and automate AWS GovCloud infrastructure for a federal education program. You’ll collaborate with the cloud, Salesforce, integration, and data teams to maintain secure, available environments and replace manual tasks with automation.

Location: Remote. You will be located in or willing to relocate to one of the supported states. This role requires a government security clearances and federal contracting experience.