Senior Cloud Systems Engineer – Hybrid & DevSecOps

Eliassen Group; Saint Paul (MN); Remote; USD 83,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer for remote contract work focused on cloud architecture and integration across hybrid on‑prem and AWS environments. The role requires guiding security, verification, and fielding within regulated settings, and leveraging AI-assisted engineering to accelerate development and testing.

You will collaborate with Scaled Agile teams, specify technical direction, and ensure robust design across networking, security, and platform components in GovCloud

Qualifications

• Responsibilities and requirements from ad.

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.

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer for remote contract work focused on cloud architecture and integration across hybrid on‑prem and AWS environments. The role requires guiding security, verification, and fielding within regulated settings, and leveraging AI-assisted engineering to accelerate development and testing.

You will collaborate with Scaled Agile teams, specify technical direction, and ensure robust design across networking, security, and platform components in GovCloud