Senior Cloud Systems Engineer – Hybrid, Government Security

Eliassen Group; Salt Lake City (UT); Remote; USD 83,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to guide cloud architecture, security, and DevSecOps across hybrid and GovCloud environments. The role emphasizes architecture direction, regulatory compliance, and AI-assisted engineering in a remote setting.

The position targets experts in AWS ECS/EKS, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and Scaled Agile teams who can influence design across multiple technical areas rather than daily coding.

Qualifications

• Proven cloud architecture and technical planning for hybrid on‑prem to AWS systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical planning and cloud architecture for hybrid on‑prem to AWS designs across VPCs, GovCloud and commercial regions.
• 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

Technical planning

Scaled Agile

Security architecture

DevSecOps

AI-assisted engineering

Tools

Amazon ECS

Amazon EKS

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Helm

GitLab

Tekton

Argo CD

SAST

DAST

SCA

IaC scanning

SBOM

image signing

secrets management

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to guide cloud architecture, security, and DevSecOps across hybrid and GovCloud environments. The role emphasizes architecture direction, regulatory compliance, and AI-assisted engineering in a remote setting.

The position targets experts in AWS ECS/EKS, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and Scaled Agile teams who can influence design across multiple technical areas rather than daily coding.