Remote Cloud Engineer — AWS GovCloud & Automation

Tripoint Solutions LLC; Clifton (TX); Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) Retirement Plan

PTO and paid holidays

Professional Development Reimbursement

Job summary

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

Remote role, with relocation options for states supported by Tripoint Solutions. Strong experience with Terraform/CloudFormation, IAM, Python, and CI/CD is highly desired.

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 across compute, storage, networking, and identity (VPC design, subnets, routing, Route 53, VPN/Direct Connect).
• Experience integrating AWS with Salesforce and hands-on MuleSoft experience.
• Hands-on AWS Glue experience.
• Infrastructure as code with CloudFormation or Terraform.
• IAM policy design, KMS, and least-privilege concepts.
• Linux system administration.
• Python for automation.
• CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent.
• Git and version-controlled workflows.
• Cloud security principles and hardening practices.
• Track record of automating manual work.

Responsibilities

• Provision, configure, and operate AWS GovCloud infrastructure (EC2, S3, EBS, RDS, VPCs, subnets, security groups, Route 53).
• Author and maintain infrastructure as code in version control with automated validation.
• Build and support integrations between AWS and Salesforce (MuleSoft).
• Maintain AWS Glue pipelines for secure data movement.
• Implement S3 lifecycle, tiering, and retention policies.
• Secure RDS and data services with least-privilege access, encryption, network isolation.
• Manage IAM policies, KMS keys, and secrets management.
• Integrate automated security scanning and continuous monitoring into CI/CD.
• Support STIG, RMF, ATO, and vulnerability remediation.
• Maintain deployment runbooks, rollback procedures, and change artifacts for high availability.
• Improve cost visibility via tagging, rightsizing, and cleanup of orphaned resources.
• Automate operational work using Python.

Skills

Cloud engineering

AWS GovCloud

Python

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

CloudFormation

Security

Linux

MuleSoft integration

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS GovCloud

Salesforce

MuleSoft

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

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 collaborate with the cloud, Salesforce, integration, and data teams to keep environments secure, available, and compliant, and will replace manual tasks with automation.

Remote role, with relocation options for states supported by Tripoint Solutions. Strong experience with Terraform/CloudFormation, IAM, Python, and CI/CD is highly desired.