Remote Cloud Engineer — AWS GovCloud & Automation

Tripoint Solutions LLC; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401(k) Retirement Plan

Paid time off (PTO)

11 paid 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 will work with the cloud, Salesforce, integration, and data teams to keep environments secure, available, and compliant, replacing manual tasks with automation.

The role is remote with state restrictions; candidates should have 5+ years in cloud engineering, strong IAM/KMS practices, and IaC experience with CloudFormation or Terraform to deliver

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering or operations.
• Hands-on AWS GovCloud experience across compute, storage, networking, and identity.
• Experience integrating AWS with Salesforce and MuleSoft.
• IaC experience with CloudFormation or Terraform.
• IAM/KMS and least-privilege access knowledge.
• Python for automation and scripting.
• CI/CD with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or equivalent.
• Version-controlled infrastructure workflows with Git.
• Knowledge of cloud security principles and hardening practices.

Responsibilities

• Provision, configure, and operate AWS GovCloud infrastructure (EC2, S3, EBS, RDS, VPCs).
• Author and maintain infrastructure as code with automated validation.
• Build and support AWS-Salesforce integrations, including MuleSoft interfaces.
• Maintain AWS Glue pipelines moving data securely between sources.
• Implement S3 lifecycle, tiering, and retention policies.
• Secure services with least-privilege access, encryption, and network isolation.
• Manage IAM policies, KMS, and secrets management.
• Automate security scanning, dependency checks, and CI/CD monitoring.
• Support STIG/ATO activities and vulnerability remediation timelines.
• Maintain deployment runbooks, rollback procedures, and change control artifacts.
• Improve cost visibility through tagging, rightsizing, and cleanup.
• Automate operational work using Python.

Skills

Python automation

Cloud engineering

Automation mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT

Tools

AWS GovCloud

Terraform

CloudFormation

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

The role is remote with state restrictions; candidates should have 5+ years in cloud engineering, strong IAM/KMS practices, and IaC experience with CloudFormation or Terraform to deliver