Senior DoD Cloud Engineer: Azure & AWS, DevSecOps

Socket.dev; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 10,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid leave

Retirement plan

Job summary

SMX is seeking a Senior Azure/AWS Cloud Engineer to support a government client in Huntsville, AL. The role emphasizes operational excellence, quality, and client success with a focus on cloud-native services and DevSecOps practices.

The candidate will work in a DoD-governed cloud environment, ensuring security, performance, and scalability while delivering documentation and guidance to stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Clearance Required: Secret.
• Bachelor's degree and 12 years of cloud-related experience; 4 years may substitute.
• DoD 8570/8140 aligned cert such as CompTIA Security+.

Responsibilities

• Establish cloud-based, government-hybrid environment with security and scale.
• Support cloud strategy using DoD-approved providers for IaaS/PaaS/DaaS/SaaS and CSOs.
• Define and engineer solutions to satisfy customer requirements.
• Act as Cloud SME and trusted advisor in client engagements.
• Perform architecture, design and requirements analysis focusing on cloud-native services.
• Develop deployment and automation capabilities (scripts, platforms, cloud-native services, APIs).
• Utilize DevSecOps with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation) for CI/CD pipelines.
• Take ownership of issues and provide advanced technical support and problem resolution.
• Produce documentation capturing baselines and operational capabilities.

Skills

Azure

AWS

RMF

SCCA

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Docker

Linux/Windows Admin

Zero Trust

DoD Guidance

Education

Bachelor's degree

12+ years cloud experience

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Git

Jenkins

AWS CodeCommit

AWS CodePipeline

Kubernetes (EKS)

Docker

Job description

SMX is seeking a Senior Azure/AWS Cloud Engineer to support a government client in Huntsville, AL. The role emphasizes operational excellence, quality, and client success with a focus on cloud-native services and DevSecOps practices.

The candidate will work in a DoD-governed cloud environment, ensuring security, performance, and scalability while delivering documentation and guidance to stakeholders.