Senior Cloud Systems Engineer (Remote) – AI + DevSecOps

Eliassen Group; Jackson (MS); Remote; USD 83,000 - 96,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer (Contract) to guide cloud architecture and security across hybrid environments, including GovCloud and commercial regions. The role emphasizes integration, verification, and fielding within regulated settings, with a focus on AI-assisted engineering and Scaled Agile collaboration.

The selected candidate will work remotely with hybrid in Ashburn, VA or Gaithersburg, MD preferences, and must hold a United States Citizen status with an active

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.
• Networking expertise across ingress, ALB, WAF, PrivateLink, endpoints, and related enterprise access patterns.
• On‑prem to AWS migration of containerized workloads, including re‑platforming, parallel runs, data connectivity for MongoDB or PostgreSQL, and rollback planning.
• AWS GovCloud and commercial multi‑account and VPC design, including DMZ and private tier segmentation.
• DevSecOps toolchain experience with GitLab, Tekton, Argo CD, SAST, DAST, SCA, IaC scanning, SBOM, image signing and scanning, and secrets management.
• Scaled Agile experience collaborating within mixed teams and communicating technical decisions.
• Familiarity with Java ecosystems, microservices, REST, and cloud‑native development in Linux environments.
• Demonstrated AI‑assisted engineering using tools comparable to Claude for development and testing.

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

Kubernetes

DevSecOps

Scaled Agile

Java / microservices

AI-assisted engineering

Tools

GitLab

Tekton

Argo CD

SAST

DAST

SCA

SBOM

Image signing

Secrets management

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer (Contract) to guide cloud architecture and security across hybrid environments, including GovCloud and commercial regions. The role emphasizes integration, verification, and fielding within regulated settings, with a focus on AI-assisted engineering and Scaled Agile collaboration.

The selected candidate will work remotely with hybrid in Ashburn, VA or Gaithersburg, MD preferences, and must hold a United States Citizen status with an active