Remote Cloud Engineer, AWS GovCloud & Automation

Tripoint Solutions LLC; Texas; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k) Retirement Plan

PTO + 11 holidays

Professional Development Reimbursement

Monthly transportation, parking, and 2

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 the cloud, Salesforce, integration, and data teams to maintain secure, available, and compliant environments, replacing manual work with automation.

Location: Remote, with eligibility for states supported by Tripoint Solutions; candidates must be in the US.

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

Automation

Python

CI/CD

Security best practices

AWS GovCloud

MuleSoft

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or related field

Tools

CloudFormation

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

MuleSoft

Salesforce integration

AWS Glue

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 the cloud, Salesforce, integration, and data teams to maintain secure, available, and compliant environments, replacing manual work with automation.

Location: Remote, with eligibility for states supported by Tripoint Solutions; candidates must be in the US.