Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS TechSur Solutions · Reston · Cloud $150,000–$165,000 4d ago

Devopsroles; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

TechSurSolutions is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer with deep AWS expertise to design, build, and operate a federal customer's AWS cloud foundation. You will translate a cloud-agnostic enterprise architecture into a secure, well-governed AWS environment with multi-account landing zones and hub-and-spoke networking.

You will collaborate with customer architects, security staff, and the SAIC team, automate via Infrastructure-as-Code, and help customer IT staff adopt the platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering or related field.
• 9+ years deploying cloud environments with hands-on AWS.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/CloudFormation).
• Hands-on with multi-account AWS landing zones and VPC design.
• Knowledge of IAM, SAML 2.0/OIDC federation.
• Familiar with federal security controls (NIST 800-53).

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy AWS landing zones and hub-and-spoke networks.
• Build and maintain IaC workflows for prod/dev/test/sandbox.
• Implement IAM and federated access per SAML 2.0/OIDC.
• Configure security guardrails against NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5.
• Monitor environments and integrate with tools like CloudWatch, Datadog, Splunk.
• Support 24/7 operations and DR/HA planning.
• Write runbooks and transfer knowledge to customer staff.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

IAM

SAML 2.0 / OIDC

Zero Trust

Linux/Windows

Security & Compliance

VPC design

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

AWS Organizations

Control Tower

GitOps

Datadog

Splunk

Dynatrace

ServiceNow

CloudWatch

Job description

TechSurSolutions is a digital services company whose mission is to enable digital transformation for our customers to improve quality and efficiency. Based in the DC metropolitan area, TechSur specializes in advanced cloud services, modernization for both IT structures and applications, leveraging Agile development, and Data Analytics. Since we were formed in August of 2016, we have supported multiple impactful and exciting government programs.

TechSur is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer with deep Amazon Web Services expertise to design, build, and operate a federal customer's AWS cloud foundation. You will turn a cloud-agnostic enterprise architecture into a secure, well-governed AWS environment: multi-account landing zones, hub-and-spoke networking, and federated identity.

Once the foundation is in place, you will keep it running at production service levels. You will work daily with customer architects, security staff, and the wider SAIC team, automate through Infrastructure-as-Code, and help the customer's IT staff adopt the platform with confidence.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and deploy AWS landing zones, multi-account structures (AWS Organizations, Control Tower), and hub-and-spoke networking integrated with the customer's WAN and DNS.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and GitOps workflows that provision consistent production, integration, development, and sandbox environments.
• Implement IAM and federated access through the customer's enterprise identity provider using SAML 2.0 and OIDC, aligned with Zero Trust principles.
• Configure security and compliance guardrails (Service Control Policies, AWS Config, Security Hub, GuardDuty) against NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 and customer security standards.
• Apply the enterprise tagging strategy for asset management, cost tracking, and chargeback/showback.
• Monitor environments with CloudWatch and enterprise tools such as Datadog, Splunk, and Dynatrace; integrate events, incidents, and changes with ServiceNow.
• Perform patching, routine maintenance, capacity planning, and rightsizing; troubleshoot and resolve incidents as part of 24/7 operations support.
• Design and test high availability, backup, and disaster recovery for cloud workloads.
• Write runbooks and SOPs, supply ATO evidence, and transfer knowledge to customer operations staff.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 9 years of experience deploying and configuring cloud environments, including significant hands-on AWS work.
• Production experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Hands-on experience with AWS multi-account landing zones, VPC design, Transit Gateway, and Direct Connect or site-to-site VPN.
• Experience implementing IAM and single sign-on federation (SAML 2.0/OIDC).
• Experience monitoring, patching, and troubleshooting Linux and Windows workloads in the cloud.
• Working knowledge of NIST SP 800-53 security controls in a federal environment.
• Ability to obtain and maintain the background investigation required by the federal customer.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
• AWS Certified Security – Specialty or HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate.
• Experience in FedRAMP Moderate/High or AWS GovCloud environments, including support for ATO packages.
• Working knowledge of Azure, Google Cloud, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Experience with policy-as-code (OPA/Rego, Checkov), Ansible, and CI/CD tools such as GitLab, GitHub Actions, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Experience integrating cloud tooling with ServiceNow ITSM and CMDB.
• Prior support of a civilian federal agency.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.