Senior Cloud Engineer (AWS/OCI) - Remote | Gov't Regulated

SAIC; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC is seeking a Cloud Engineer to design, build, secure, and operate cloud infrastructure and data platforms for U.S. Government customers. The role spans AWS and OCI, from secure foundations to data pipelines and AI-enabled automation, with a code-first, version-controlled approach.

Remote within the United States for the right candidate. This senior, remote-friendly position requires a Bachelor’s in CS/IT and multiple years of hands-on cloud engineering, IaC, CI/CD, and security experience,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, with 9 years of experience.
• Master's degree with 7 years of experience.
• Security+ Certification.
• U.S. citizenship required.
• Interim Secret clearance required before starting and ability to obtain Secret clearance.
• Hands-on cloud engineering on AWS and OCI.
• Strong infrastructure as code skills (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Proficiency in Python for automation and data pipelines; Bash/PowerShell.
• Experience building or operating data pipelines (batch, scheduled, event-driven).
• Experience with CI/CD (GitLab, Jenkins) and containers/Kubernetes.
• Monitoring and logging (CloudWatch, OCI Monitoring, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Experience applying AI/LLM services to automation and data workflows.
• Strong cloud security knowledge and ability to produce documentation.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and migrate secure, highly available environments in AWS and OCI.
• Architect and deploy compliant enclaves meeting government security requirements.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Design, build, and operate Python data pipelines and data workloads.
• Apply AI and LLM services to automate operations and data workflows.
• Implement security controls and run vulnerability scans (ACAS).
• Monitor performance, cost, and availability; troubleshoot with minimal downtime.
• Maintain designs, diagrams, asset inventories, SOPs, and train users.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Python scripting

Communication

Problem solving

Security awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT

Master's degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

OCI Resource Manager

GitLab

Jenkins

Kubernetes

AWS

S3/SQS/SNS

Job description

SAIC is seeking a Cloud Engineer to design, build, secure, and operate cloud infrastructure and data platforms for U.S. Government customers. The role spans AWS and OCI, from secure foundations to data pipelines and AI-enabled automation, with a code-first, version-controlled approach.

Remote within the United States for the right candidate. This senior, remote-friendly position requires a Bachelor’s in CS/IT and multiple years of hands-on cloud engineering, IaC, CI/CD, and security experience,