Remote Cloud Engineer - AWS GovCloud & Automation

Tripoint Solutions LLC; Mississippi; Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k) Retirement Plan

Paid time off

Holidays

Professional development reimbursement

Transportation & cell phone reimburse

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 cloud, Salesforce, integration, and data teams to keep environments secure, available, and compliant, while replacing manual tasks with automation.

The role requires hands-on AWS GovCloud and Terraform/CloudFormation, plus Python scripting to streamline operations and CI/CD pipelines.

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

AWS GovCloud

Python

CI/CD

IAM & KMS

Cloud security

VPC design

Terraform

CloudFormation

Salesforce/MuleSoft

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Tools

AWS GovCloud

CloudFormation

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

MuleSoft

Salesforce

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 cloud, Salesforce, integration, and data teams to keep environments secure, available, and compliant, while replacing manual tasks with automation.

The role requires hands-on AWS GovCloud and Terraform/CloudFormation, plus Python scripting to streamline operations and CI/CD pipelines.