Senior Cloud Systems Engineer - GovCloud/DevSecOps (Remote)

Eliassen Group; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 83,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k) with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to drive cloud architecture across hybrid on‑prem to AWS, guiding integration, security, and verification in regulated environments. The role emphasizes DevSecOps, AI-assisted engineering, and collaboration within Scaled Agile teams.

The candidate will lead design across VPCs, GovCloud, and multiple clusters, with hands-on experience in ECS, EKS, Kubernetes, and security boundaries.

Qualifications

• Proven cloud architecture and planning for hybrid on-prem to AWS.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical planning and cloud architecture for hybrid on‑prem to AWS designs across VPCs, GovCloud and commercial regions, and multiple clusters.
• Conduct platform trade studies and sizing for ECS, EKS, and OpenShift with cost and effort modeling across Dev, Test, and Ops environments.
• Drive integration, verification and validation, and fielding within FISMA High boundaries, including cutover to GovCloud.
• Design security architecture including trust boundaries, segmentation, and control mapping to SSP and ATO boundaries.
• Engineer networking patterns including ALB, WAF, routes and ingress, PrivateLink and endpoints, and Zscaler or PIV considerations.
• Own requirements development and analysis, technical writing, and authoring of technical papers and white papers.
• Provide system and software design guidance to developers and testers within Scaled Agile teams.
• Lead hardware and software integration and cloud system design for Java and microservices ecosystems.
• Apply DevSecOps practices, CI/CD, security scanning, SBOM, image signing, secrets management, and policy as code.
• Incorporate AI for coding, requirements, test creation, debugging, and analysis, including AI-driven test script generation.

Skills

Cloud architecture

AWS GovCloud

OpenShift

DevSecOps

Kubernetes

Scaled Agile

Security architecture

Networking

Java microservices

AI-assisted engineering

Tools

Amazon ECS

Amazon EKS

OpenShift (Red Hat)

Kubernetes

Helm

Argo CD

GitLab

Tekton

SAST

DAST

SCA

SBOM

IaC scanning

Image signing

Zscaler

PIV

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to drive cloud architecture across hybrid on‑prem to AWS, guiding integration, security, and verification in regulated environments. The role emphasizes DevSecOps, AI-assisted engineering, and collaboration within Scaled Agile teams.

The candidate will lead design across VPCs, GovCloud, and multiple clusters, with hands-on experience in ECS, EKS, Kubernetes, and security boundaries.