Senior Cloud Systems Engineer - Hybrid, DevSecOps

Eliassen Group; Madison (WI); Remote; USD 83,000 - 96,000; Part time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to guide cloud architecture across hybrid environments and support Gov/FISMA‑high programs. The role emphasizes architecture direction, security controls, and integration across multiple clusters in a remote setup.

You will work within Scaled Agile teams and apply DevSecOps practices while leveraging AI-assisted engineering to improve design, testing, and deployment processes.

Qualifications

• Proven cloud architecture and planning experience for hybrid on‑prem to AWS.
• Hands-on with Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and Red Hat OpenShift, including Kubernetes, Helm, operators, policies, routes, and pipelines.
• Track record in integration, V&V, and fielding for regulated environments such as FISMA High or FedRAMP High.
• Security architecture experience with segmentation and control mapping to SSP and ATO.
• Familiarity with Java ecosystems, microservices, REST, and cloud‑native development in Linux environments.

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

Kubernetes

DevSecOps

Security architecture

Scaled Agile

Java ecosystem

AI-assisted engineering

Tools

GitLab

Tekton

Argo CD

SBOM

OpenShift

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to guide cloud architecture across hybrid environments and support Gov/FISMA‑high programs. The role emphasizes architecture direction, security controls, and integration across multiple clusters in a remote setup.

You will work within Scaled Agile teams and apply DevSecOps practices while leveraging AI-assisted engineering to improve design, testing, and deployment processes.