Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - AWS GovCloud & Azure Lead

Nightwing; Sterling (VA); Hybrid; USD 99,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vision and dental coverage

401k plan

PTO and Holidays

Additional insurances

Job summary

Nightwing Information Technology is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to lead the operation, development, and continuous improvement of our cloud infrastructure in AWS GovCloud and Azure.

You will provide technical leadership in a rapidly changing, fast‑paced environment supporting 20+ applications across three distinct networks, each with its own data protection requirements, connectivity, and support model.

Qualifications

• 6–10+ years of IT experience in hybrid or cloud-native environments.
• 4+ years of Linux system administration in production environments.
• Experience with Windows system administration in mixed environments.
• 2+ years of production services in AWS or Azure with availability and cost ownership.
• Architecting services using AWS resources and integrating into existing environments.
• Troubleshooting distributed systems, networking, IAM/policy, containers, CI/CD.
• Infrastructure-as-code and configuration tools: Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, Packer, Python, Bash, PowerShell.
• Source code management tools: Git, GitLab, Bitbucket.
• Leading technical projects, planning and coordination with stakeholders.
• Strong communication; ownership and accountability; U.S. citizen.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and design of core cloud platform capabilities in AWS GovCloud and Azure.
• Develop automation to provision and configure servers, services, apps, and security controls.
• Set up applications in AWS GovCloud and commercial AWS, defining dev/test/prod patterns.
• Manage AWS resources (VPCs, EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, Control Tower, LZA) at scale.
• Lead projects end-to-end with cross-functional teams to deliver features on schedule.
• Establish disaster recovery and business continuity practices for server, network, and security design.
• Manage Linux and Windows servers, monitoring, patching, and tooling.
• Provide senior-level IT security monitoring, compliance, and auditing support.
• Collaborate with security/compliance teams to meet regulatory requirements.
• Mentor junior engineers and conduct design/code reviews on cloud architecture and automation.
• Contribute to cloud platform roadmap and modernization opportunities.

Skills

Cloud platform engineering

AWS GovCloud

Azure

Automation (Ansible, Terraform, Packer

Linux/Windows administration

CI/CD pipelines

Security/compliance

Leadership/mentoring

U.S. citizen

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Packer

GitLab CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Nightwing Information Technology is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to lead the operation, development, and continuous improvement of our cloud infrastructure in AWS GovCloud and Azure.

You will provide technical leadership in a rapidly changing, fast‑paced environment supporting 20+ applications across three distinct networks, each with its own data protection requirements, connectivity, and support model.