Secure AWS Cloud Platform Engineer — Hybrid

Credence; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Credence is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to support secure AWS hosting environments for DoD customers. This hands-on role covers AWS infrastructure, IaC, CI/CD, container platforms, automation, and operations across development, test, and production environments.

The ideal candidate will design, automate, and troubleshoot AWS-based environments, collaborate with cybersecurity and deployment teams, and translate requirements into practical cloud solutions.

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
• CompTIA Security+ certification, or the ability to obtain it.
• AWS certification, or the ability to obtain one within the first 90 days.
• At least 3 years of progressively responsible experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure automation, systems engineering, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience designing, deploying, supporting, and troubleshooting AWS environments.
• Experience with core AWS services such as EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, security groups, RDS, EFS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Systems Manager.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or another Infrastructure as Code technology.
• Experience developing, maintaining, or troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, or similar platforms.
• Production experience with Docker and at least one container platform, such as Amazon ECS Fargate or Amazon EKS/Kubernetes.
• Experience developing automation using Python, Shell, PowerShell, or a similar scripting language.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues across infrastructure, deployments, networking, permissions, and containerized workloads.
• Ability to contribute to technical solution design and communicate recommendations, tradeoffs, and implementation approaches.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document technical processes and communicate with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, operate, and improve secure AWS hosting solutions for development, test, and production environments.
• Collaborate with Cloud Engineers, Solutions Architects, cybersecurity professionals, application teams, and customer stakeholders to develop technical solutions.
• Translate technical and customer requirements into practical cloud infrastructure, deployment, and hosting solutions.
• Build, maintain, and improve reusable Infrastructure as Code patterns using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar technologies.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting automated build, test, security scanning, deployment, and release workflows.
• Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot containerized workloads using Docker, Amazon ECS/Fargate, and Amazon EKS/Kubernetes.
• Support container platforms, including workload deployment, configuration, networking, storage, scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Develop scripts, tools, and automation using Python, Shell, PowerShell, or similar technologies to reduce manual effort and improve consistency.
• Convert recurring operational issues into reusable automation, platform capabilities, or standardized deployment patterns.
• Support AWS-hosted environments as needed, including troubleshooting, incident response, planned maintenance, escalations, and production support.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, OS, networking, permissions, database, pipeline, container, and deployment issues.
• Support cloud platform services related to monitoring, logging, access control, configuration management, patching, backup, and security.
• Work with cybersecurity and compliance teams to ensure infrastructure and automation align with customer, federal, and organizational requirements.
• Research and recommend tools, technologies, and engineering practices that improve platform reliability, automation, security, and developer experience.
• Create and maintain technical designs, implementation plans, deployment procedures, runbooks, reusable patterns, and operational documentation.
• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule.

Skills

AWS cloud engineering

CI/CD pipelines

Container orchestration

Python scripting

Troubleshooting complex infra

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

AWS CodePipeline

Job description

Credence is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to support secure AWS hosting environments for DoD customers. This hands-on role covers AWS infrastructure, IaC, CI/CD, container platforms, automation, and operations across development, test, and production environments.

The ideal candidate will design, automate, and troubleshoot AWS-based environments, collaborate with cybersecurity and deployment teams, and translate requirements into practical cloud solutions.