Senior Cloud Engineer - Federal Cloud & Security

REI Systems; Alaska; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Professional development

Top Workplace recognition

Job summary

REI Systems is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and optimize secure, cost-efficient cloud infrastructure for Federal environments. The role requires independently leading initiatives across multi-vendor, compliant landscapes with minimal oversight.

You will work with architecture, operations, security, data center, and product teams to translate requirements into cloud-native solutions and maintain comprehensive runbooks, diagrams, and monitoring dashboards.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of professional cloud engineering experience.
• 5+ years AWS experience (EKS, ECS, S3, KMS, Secrets Manager, API Gateway, CloudFront, VPC, EC2, RDS, SQS, SNS, SGs, NACLs).
• Experience leading cloud projects end-to-end with minimal supervision.
• Experience designing highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, and delivery of scalable, secure cloud infrastructure.
• Assess on-prem to cloud migration needs and estimates.
• Design cloud-native architectures meeting Federal security/operational requirements.
• Implement cost-optimized resource sizing and tagging strategies.
• Develop dashboards and reporting for infrastructure health and security posture.

Skills

AWS expertise

Design highly available systems

Programming languages

CI/CD pipelines

UNIX/Linux

Education

MS in Engineering / CS / Info Systems

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Ansible

AWS CloudFormation

Docker/Kubernetes

Job description

REI Systems is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and optimize secure, cost-efficient cloud infrastructure for Federal environments. The role requires independently leading initiatives across multi-vendor, compliant landscapes with minimal oversight.

You will work with architecture, operations, security, data center, and product teams to translate requirements into cloud-native solutions and maintain comprehensive runbooks, diagrams, and monitoring dashboards.