Senior Cloud Engineer

ECS Corporate Services; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

EVERFORTH ECS seeks a Cloud Engineer to support a DoD program, working in Fairfax, VA and Groton, CT with periodic Arlington, VA on-site requirements. The role focuses on AI and cloud solutions across AWS GovCloud and Azure, delivering secure, scalable infrastructure and DevOps practices.

You will apply expertise in Linux, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and scripting to build compliant cloud environments, drive automation, and collaborate with government stakeholders and product owners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science or equivalent experience.
• Active SECRET security clearance with ability to obtain Top Secret.
• Experience administering Linux (patching, STIGs, troubleshooting).
• Proficient in DevOps, configuration management, cloud infra, automation.
• Experience with AWS/Azure and automation tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, scripting).
• Proven ability to design and implement IaC and container orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and manage security compliance, remediations and patch management for classified/unclassified environments.
• Evaluate issues and make decisions on technologies, tools and delivery strategy.
• Implement proof-of-concept solutions aligned to platform requirements.
• Deploy and monitor deployments, establish detection and incident response workflows.
• Contribute to project progress reviews and future architecture designs.

Skills

DevOps

Cloud infrastructure

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

Azure

Security

Python

PowerShell

Linux

DoD

Secret/Top Secret clearance

Networking

Cloud certifications

Education

Bachelor of Science or equivalent experience

Tools

Gitlab

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

EVERFORTH ECS is seeking a Cloud Engineer to work in our Fairfax, VA office and/or Groton,CT. Once accounts and access have been granted, this position will also require attendance in our Arlington, VA office, and other government locations supporting the development and integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cloud Solutions for a DoD customer.EVERFORTH ECS is an expert technology firm focused on Microsoft Azure and AWS cloud solutions as an AWS Premier Partner, Audited AWS Managed Service Partner and AWS Reseller. We specialize in migrating custom developed and COTS applications into AWS and offering a complete suite of managed service solutions for our customers to include design, architecture, DevOps, systems administration, big data, security, and 24x7 cloud support services.We now have an exciting opportunity for a Certified Cloud Engineer to join our team in supporting a large DoD program that operates and maintains multiple AWS GovCloud, Azure, and classified cloud environments to take advantage of the many benefits offered by commercial cloud hosting, such as the ability to accelerate IT delivery, efficiency, and innovation.

Responsibilities include:

• Monitor and manage security compliance, remediations and patch management for both classified and unclassified environments.
• Evaluate customer issues and make educated decisions on technologies, tools and the overall delivery strategy.
• Evaluating and implementing proof of concept solutions that fits the need of the platform and client requirements
• Leverage best practices to deploy and monitor deployments, facilitate management oversight, and put in place detection, incident-response, and mitigation practices to minimize and rapidly resolve discovered anomalies
• Periodically review and evaluate project progress and planned goals to anticipate development of new solutions, architecture designs, configuration-management practices, business intelligence, and technical documentation
• Have a solid understanding of AWS, Azure, and/or GCP Cloud Services, Network Infrastructure, Security Capabilities, Storage Solutions, Database Services/Tooling and Identity & Access Management capabilities to be able to engage with technical and non-technical leadership as well as product owners
• Participate in status meetings on progress, priorities, issues, performance issues, and future work
• Thrive in a hybrid environment (split between on-site and remote), able to be on-site at 4-5 days as required to support customer and mission requirements.
• Successfully communicate to customers, program managers, industry partners, and Government representatives.

Salary Range: $175,000-190,000

General Description of Benefits

*The job is initially located in Fairfax, VA. Once access and accounts have been granted, this position will move between Fairfax, VA and Arlington, VA dependent on requirement.

Required Skills

• Bachelor of Science or equivalent experience.
• Must have an existing and active SECRET security clearance with the ability to obtain a Top Secret.
• Experience in the administration of Linux (Patch, STIG, configure, and troubleshoot).
• Expertise in DevOps, Gitlab, Configuration Management, Cloud Infrastructure, Automation, scripting experience with PowerShell and Python.
• Cloud Formation/Automation/ PowerShell / Comparable Linux Scripting.
• Experience building infrastructure as code (IAC) using Terraform.
• Experience with container orchestration with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Hands-on experience implementing AWS components such as, but not limited to: Lambda, IAM, Load Balancers, RDS, CloudFormation, S3, EC2, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, SageMaker, Bedrock.
• Experience enforcing cloud security practices including configuring encryption, implementing VPC endpoint policies, bucket policies, and locking down security groups.
• Demonstrated, hands-on technical experience in Network and Transport protocols, tools, and techniques.
• Strong knowledge of IP Networking including VPCs, VPNs, VRF, DNS, load-balancing, and firewalls.
• Experience developing and maintaining systems architecture and configuration documentation.
• At least 5 years of experience with customer-facing cloud projects (AWS and/or Azure).
• Highly technical and analytical possessing 8+ years of IT platform implementation experience.
• A strong understanding of AWS and or Azure/cloud-based technologies with a desire to learn more.
• 6+ years of relevant experience in a progression of roles to include delivering and sustaining technical and cloud solutions.
• Demonstrated customer focus and strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• DOD 8570-01M certification: IAM Level I or better (e.g., Security+).