Senior Cloud & System Engineering Lead - Remote

Computer World Services Corp.; North Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Computer World Services Corp. seeks a Senior Cloud / System Engineering Lead to guide cloud operations, enterprise systems, and modernization for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program.

You will drive cloud architecture, automation, and secure connectivity across hybrid environments while coordinating with a broad team including cybersecurity and vendor partners. The role emphasizes leadership, DoD compliance (STIGs/RMF/NIST), and hands-on engineering with AWS services, Terraform, Python, and VMware

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in IT/CS or related field.
• Minimum eight years of cloud/systems engineering experience.
• Experience in federal/DoD or government cloud preferred; AWS GovCloud exposure is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering support for cloud operations, enterprise systems, and hybrid-cloud services; architect secure, high-availability cloud solutions.
• Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, and secure connectivity across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Engineer cloud DNS services, elastic load balancers, API gateways and integrations, and certificates; manage renewals and troubleshooting.
• Monitor cloud availability, performance, capacity, cost, and risk; resolve issues across cloud, network, API, DNS, certificate, compute, and storage domains.
• Provide senior technical support during outages; coordinate diagnosis, mitigation, restoration, and root-cause input with OIT teams.
• Lead installations, upgrades, migrations, component refreshes, and deployments; develop test and rollback plans.
• Ensure cloud and system components are recorded in asset, configuration, and lifecycle repositories; support inventory validation.
• Develop IaC for provisioning, configuration, deployment, and monitoring using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or equivalents.
• Integrate cloud with VMware and on-prem environments; design backup, disaster recovery, and continuity capabilities.
• Evaluate requirements, estimate costs, and prepare concepts of operations and service-design packages.
• Support DISA STIGs, DoD RMF, NIST controls, IAVA requirements, CND Directives, and ATO processes with AWS and vendors.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, certificates, API records, and SOPs; mentor cloud engineers and administrators.

Skills

AWS CloudOps

Amazon VPC

Route 53

Elastic Load Balancing

API Gateway

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Python

PowerShell

Bash

VMware

DISA STIGs

RMF

NIST controls

ATO support

Leadership

Vendor management

Stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or Computer Science

8+ years cloud/systems engineering experience

Tools

AWS GovCloud

VMware vSphere

vSAN

NSX

SRM

VMware Cloud Foundation

Job description

Computer World Services Corp. seeks a Senior Cloud / System Engineering Lead to guide cloud operations, enterprise systems, and modernization for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program.

You will drive cloud architecture, automation, and secure connectivity across hybrid environments while coordinating with a broad team including cybersecurity and vendor partners. The role emphasizes leadership, DoD compliance (STIGs/RMF/NIST), and hands-on engineering with AWS services, Terraform, Python, and VMware