Remote Cloud Engineer - AWS GovCloud & Automation

Tripoint Solutions LLC; Minnesota; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits with…

FSA/HSA

Company-paid Life and Disability

Supplemental Insurance

PTO

11 paid holidays

401(k) Retirement Plan

Professional Development Reimbursement

Transportation, parking, and cell bill

Job summary

Tripoint Solutions seeks a Cloud Engineer to build, operate, and automate AWS GovCloud infrastructure for a federal education program. You’ll collaborate with cloud, Salesforce, integration, and data teams to keep environments secure, compliant, and available, while replacing manual tasks with automation. Location: Remote.

Requires willingness to relocate to supported states or reside in one of them. Candidate must meet federal security prerequisites and have 5+ years in cloud engineering with

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.
• 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

Linux administration

Python automation

CI/CD automation

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Cloud security

risk management

threat modeling

automation of manual work

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT

Tools

AWS GovCloud

CloudFormation

Terraform

Salesforce integration

MuleSoft

Job description

Tripoint Solutions seeks a Cloud Engineer to build, operate, and automate AWS GovCloud infrastructure for a federal education program. You’ll collaborate with cloud, Salesforce, integration, and data teams to keep environments secure, compliant, and available, while replacing manual tasks with automation. Location: Remote.

Requires willingness to relocate to supported states or reside in one of them. Candidate must meet federal security prerequisites and have 5+ years in cloud engineering with