Senior Cloud Engineer - TS Clearance, Onsite Quantico

i3, LLC; Quantico (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

i3, LLC is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to support cloud architecture, deployment, optimization, and sustainment activities within a major federal modernization program. The role ensures secure, scalable cloud environments that support applications, data, migration, and DevSecOps operations.

You will collaborate with Full Stack Engineers, Data Engineers, DevSecOps teams, QA Automation, and Product teams to build and maintain resilient cloud infrastructure aligned with mission-critical

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of cloud engineering, cloud operations, or infrastructure engineering.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (compute, storage, networking, security, automation).
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud automation tools.
• Proficiency in cloud networking, VPC design, routing, security groups, and load balancing.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise applications and data pipelines.
• Implement cloud-native services, compute configurations, load balancing, and storage solutions.
• Support modernization and migration of legacy workloads into cloud environments.
• Ensure cloud deployments meet performance, scalability, and availability targets.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tooling.
• Support CI/CD integration and automation for application and infrastructure deployments.
• Implement monitoring, logging, observability, and automated alerting.
• Collaborate with DevSecOps teams to maintain secure deployment pipelines.
• Prepare technical documentation including architecture diagrams, configuration details, SOPs, and runbooks.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD

IaC

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Bash

PowerShell

DevSecOps

Monitoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

i3, LLC is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to support cloud architecture, deployment, optimization, and sustainment activities within a major federal modernization program. The role ensures secure, scalable cloud environments that support applications, data, migration, and DevSecOps operations.

You will collaborate with Full Stack Engineers, Data Engineers, DevSecOps teams, QA Automation, and Product teams to build and maintain resilient cloud infrastructure aligned with mission-critical