Senior Cloud Engineer — Azure Gov & Secure Migrations

AIS (Applied Information Sciences); College Park (MD); On-site; USD 102,000 - 154,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Ownership

Continuous Learning

Inclusive Culture

Mission-Driven Work

Job summary

Applied Information Sciences is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design and migrate secure, scalable cloud solutions for government workloads. You will lead IaC efforts with Terraform and ARM templates, oversee migrations, and advise on security best practices across Azure Government and related platforms.

The role emphasizes mentorship, cross-functional collaboration, and delivering high-availability systems with strong emphasis on compliance and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS or related field and 12+ years of experience, or 10+ with Master’s, or 7+ with PhD.
• Strong track record designing scalable cloud architectures and secure environments.
• Experience with Azure Government, AWS, and multi-cloud deployments is preferred.
• Certification in cloud security or architecture is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design secure, scalable, highly available cloud solutions on Azure Government and other clouds.
• Create and execute detailed cloud migration plans with security/compliance emphasis.
• Graduate to leading cloud management platform improvements and tuning.
• Develop infrastructure as code using Terraform and ARM templates.
• Lead cloud consulting engagements and mentor engineering teams.
• Educate stakeholders on cloud security, cost optimization, and best practices.
• Participate in technical reviews ensuring operations meet security requirements.
• Maintain documentation and stay updated on emerging cloud tools.

Skills

Hybrid-cloud design

Security controls

IaC automation

Performance tuning

Cloud migration

Cloud consulting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS

Master’s degree in IT/CS

PhD (advanced degree)

Tools

Terraform

ARM templates

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Applied Information Sciences is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design and migrate secure, scalable cloud solutions for government workloads. You will lead IaC efforts with Terraform and ARM templates, oversee migrations, and advise on security best practices across Azure Government and related platforms.

The role emphasizes mentorship, cross-functional collaboration, and delivering high-availability systems with strong emphasis on compliance and performance.