Remote Cloud Engineer: AWS GovCloud & Automation

Tripoint Solutions LLC; El Paso (TX); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & dental benefits

401(k) retirement

Professional development reimbursement

Job summary

Tripoint Solutions LLC is seeking 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 while replacing manual work with automation.

The role requires establishing secure cloud architectures, implementing automation and IaC, and supporting vulnerability remediation on contractual timelines.

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 (VPC design, subnets, routing, peering, Route 53, load balancing, VPN/Direct Connect).
• Experience integrating AWS with Salesforce and hands-on MuleSoft experience.
• Hands-on AWS Glue experience.
• Hands-on infrastructure as code with CloudFormation or Terraform.
• Proficiency in IAM policy design, KMS, and least-privilege access models.
• Linux system administration.
• Proficiency in Python for automation and scripting.
• Hands-on CI/CD with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent.
• Experience with Git and version-controlled infrastructure workflows.
• Working knowledge of cloud security principles and hardening.
• Proven track record of automating manual operational 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, including MuleSoft interfaces.
• Build and 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, and network isolation.
• Implement and maintain IAM policies, KMS key management, and secrets management.
• Build automated security scanning, dependency validation, and CI/CD monitoring.
• Support STIG, RMF and ATO activities and vulnerability remediation.
• Maintain deployment runbooks, rollback procedures, and change control artifacts.
• Improve cost visibility through tagging, rightsizing, and cleanup of resources.
• Automate operational work using Python.

Skills

AWS GovCloud

Python automation

CI/CD automation

Linux administration

Networking/VPC design

Security & least-privilege

Cloud security

Automation of manual tasks

Automation tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Tools

CloudFormation

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

MuleSoft

Salesforce integration

Job description

Tripoint Solutions LLC is seeking 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 while replacing manual work with automation.

The role requires establishing secure cloud architectures, implementing automation and IaC, and supporting vulnerability remediation on contractual timelines.