Senior Cloud Systems Engineer - Remote

Eliassen Group; San Juan (PR); Remote; USD 83,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401k with matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to guide hybrid cloud architecture, security, and verification across AWS GovCloud and commercial regions. The role emphasizes coordinating Scaled Agile teams, shaping platform design, and driving secure, compliant deployments.

The position requires a United States citizen with a Public Trust clearance and W2 availability, offering a comprehensive benefits package and opportunities to influence multiple technical domains rather than daily

Qualifications

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

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

DevSecOps

AWS GovCloud

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Security architecture

Scaled Agile

Java ecosystem

AI-assisted engineering

V&V

Tools

GitLab

Tekton

Argo CD

SAST

DAST

SCA

SBOM

Image signing

Secrets management

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to guide hybrid cloud architecture, security, and verification across AWS GovCloud and commercial regions. The role emphasizes coordinating Scaled Agile teams, shaping platform design, and driving secure, compliant deployments.

The position requires a United States citizen with a Public Trust clearance and W2 availability, offering a comprehensive benefits package and opportunities to influence multiple technical domains rather than daily