Senior AWS GovCloud Engineer - Secure Platform for Aerospace

Vaylent; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Vaylent in the United States is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer to own and build the GovCloud foundation for Vela's cloud platform. This hands-on role defines the landing zone, IaC standards, and secure data architecture connecting manufacturing operations to analytics.

You will implement encryption, governance, secure access, and CI/CD pipelines, while aligning with FedRAMP High/NIST 800-171 and guiding M&A data integrations as the platform scales.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of cloud engineering, with deep hands-on AWS experience.
• Direct experience with AWS GovCloud (US) — 2+ years in GovCloud or a regulated cloud preferred.
• Strong AWS networking skills — VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect/VPN.
• Infrastructure-as-code skills (Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD automation.
• Experience designing secure data pipelines/data lakes on AWS (S3, IAM, KMS, VPC).
• Familiarity with CMMC/NIST SP 800-171 or FedRAMP control expectations; willingness to learn.
• Comfortable operating independently in an early-stage environment and documenting for a growing team.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the GovCloud landing zone in AWS GovCloud (US) accounts, networking, identity, guardrails, and logging to FedRAMP High/NIST principles.
• Establish infrastructure-as-code standards using Terraform/CloudFormation for version-controlled, repeatable environments.
• Build the platform data architecture: secure ingestion from shop floor, data lake, and analytics pipelines.
• Stand up secure access: bastion hosts, private connectivity, least-privilege access.
• Implement FIPS-validated encryption in transit and at rest, KMS key management, immutable logging.
• Own cloud networking: VPC design, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect/VPN with on-premise sites.
• Establish delivery automation with CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows.
• Own operational health: monitoring/logging/observability and cost optimization.
• Partner on M&A integration to consolidate data/systems into the platform.

Skills

AWS

GovCloud

Networking

IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation)

CI/CD

Data pipelines

Security/compliance

Independent work

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Vaylent in the United States is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer to own and build the GovCloud foundation for Vela's cloud platform. This hands-on role defines the landing zone, IaC standards, and secure data architecture connecting manufacturing operations to analytics.

You will implement encryption, governance, secure access, and CI/CD pipelines, while aligning with FedRAMP High/NIST 800-171 and guiding M&A data integrations as the platform scales.