Sr. AWS Cloud - Cyber Range Engineer

Everforth, Inc.; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS in Arlington, VA is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud / Cyber Range Engineer to support a federal cybersecurity training environment. The role emphasizes cloud operations, automation, security, and compliance within a hybrid workspace.

You will oversee AWS infrastructure, create and maintain AMIs, and drive IaC practices while collaborating with government stakeholders to meet security and accreditation requirements.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of infrastructure, cloud, systems, or platform engineering experience
• 4+ years hands-on AWS engineering or operations experience
• Experience operating production AWS environments
• Strong AWS services experience (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, EBS)
• Experience creating, maintaining, and deploying AMIs
• Experience Windows/Linux server administration
• Experience scripting/automation (Python, PowerShell, Bash, Ansible)
• Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation
• Familiarity with federal cybersecurity requirements and security controls
• Ability to manage a technical environment independently while collaborating with stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Operate and optimize an AWS-hosted cybersecurity training and virtual lab environment
• Maintain platform availability, security, and reliability for instructors and students
• Manage AWS infrastructure including compute, networking, storage, IAM, monitoring, and security services
• Develop, test, and deploy AMIs and lab components
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and teardown of lab environments
• Implement Infrastructure as Code and configuration management
• Monitor health, capacity, performance, and security; troubleshoot issues
• Support security posture and ATO requirements; address KEVs and POA&Ms
• Coordinate with training developers, vendors, and government stakeholders
• Document architecture, procedures, and engineering decisions

Skills

AWS

EC2

VPC

IAM

S3

CloudWatch

EBS

Security Groups

AMI

Windows

Linux

PowerShell

Python

Bash

Ansible

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / IT / Cybersecurity / Engineering or equivalent experience

Tools

Moodle

Job description

ECS is seeking a Sr. AWS Cloud - Cyber Range Engineer to join our team in Arlington, VA (Hybrid).

ECS is seeking talented professionals to join our growing team supporting the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's (CISA) Technical Engineering and Support Services (TESS) program. TESS is CISA's integrated, capability-driven mission ecosystem designed to scale across mission and delivery spaces within the DHS/CISA/Cybersecurity Division. This is a hybrid position.

Position Overview

We are seeking a Senior AWS Cloud / Cyber Range Engineer to support the operation, maintenance, security, and modernization of a federal cybersecurity training environment. This role will provide hands‑on engineering support for a cloud-hosted Cybersecurity Virtual Learning Environment (CVLE) used to deliver interactive cybersecurity labs and training.

The engineer will initially work alongside the existing support team to learn the environment, architecture, security boundary, operational processes, and lab ecosystem. Following the transition period, the engineer will assume primary responsibility for the day‑to‑day engineering, operation, availability, security, and continuous improvement of the environment.

This position requires a strong AWS infrastructure engineer who is equally comfortable with cloud operations, automation, virtualization, vulnerability remediation, and federal cybersecurity requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Operate, maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize an AWS-hosted cybersecurity training and virtual lab environment.
• Assume primary engineering responsibility for the platform following completion of the transition and knowledge-transfer period.
• Maintain availability and reliability of infrastructure supporting cybersecurity training courses, instructors, administrators, and students.
• Manage AWS infrastructure, including compute, networking, storage, identity and access management, monitoring, and security services.
• Develop, maintain, test, and deploy Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) and other virtual lab components.
• Support development of new cybersecurity lab environments and promote approved lab images from development into production.
• Manage provisioning and deprovisioning of virtual machines and student lab environments.
• Develop automation to reduce manual configuration, environment setup, reset, provisioning, and administrative activities.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code and configuration‑management practices where appropriate.
• Monitor platform health, capacity, performance, security, and availability and troubleshoot infrastructure or application‑support issues.
• Maintain the cybersecurity posture of the environment and support continued Authority to Operate (ATO) requirements.
• Identify and remediate Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEVs), critical/high vulnerabilities, security findings, and other government security requirements.
• Support POA&M remediation and provide technical evidence or documentation necessary to demonstrate implementation of security controls.
• Coordinate with cybersecurity training developers, course owners, vendors, security personnel, and government stakeholders.
• Document platform architecture, operational procedures, configurations, dependencies, troubleshooting procedures, and engineering decisions.
• Identify opportunities to improve platform scalability, resilience, automation, cost efficiency, maintainability, and security.
• US citizenship with ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust Suitability.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Approximately8+ years of relevant infrastructure, cloud, systems, or platform engineering experience.
• At least4+ years of hands‑on AWS engineering or operations experience.
• Demonstrated experience operating production AWS environments.
• Strong experience with AWS services such asEC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, EBS, security groups, load balancing, and related cloud infrastructure services.
• Experience creating, maintaining, hardening, and deployingAmazon Machine Images (AMIs).
• Experience with Windows and Linux server administration.
• Experience supporting virtual machines, virtualized environments, or dynamically provisioned infrastructure.
• Experience with scripting and automation using tools such asPython, PowerShell, Bash, or Ansible.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such asTerraform, AWS CloudFormation, or equivalent.
• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting complex cloud infrastructure and application‑hosting issues.
• Working knowledge of cloud security, vulnerability management, patching, logging, monitoring, and configuration management.
• Experience working within federal cybersecurity requirements or other highly regulated environments.
• Ability to independently manage a technical environment while collaborating effectively with engineering, security, training, and government stakeholders.

Desired Skills

• Previous experience supportingcyber ranges, cybersecurity training environments, virtual labs, sandboxes, simulation environments, or technical learning platforms.
• Experience supporting anLMS-integrated training environment, including Moodle or similar platforms.
• Experience with federalATO/RMF processes, security controls, POA&Ms, vulnerability remediation, and continuous monitoring.
• Familiarity with CISA cybersecurity requirements, including remediation ofKnown Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEVs).
• Experience designing automated provisioning and teardown of temporary or on‑demand cloud environments.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure or virtual-machine image deployment.
• Experience optimizing AWS environments for cost, scalability, availability, and operational efficiency.
• Experience supporting cloud environments with multiple development and production boundaries.
• Experience working directly with federal customers and contractor/vendor teams.
• One or more of the following would be beneficial:
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
• AWS Certified Security – Specialty
• Security+
• CISSP or equivalent cybersecurity certification

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ECS Federal LLC is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis any characteristic protected by law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local jurisdiction law.

Everforth ECS is the federal segment of Everforth , a $4B global organization with over 10,000 employees. Our nearly 3,500 professionals deliver advanced technology solutions in data and AI, cybersecurity, and enterprise transformation, serving defense, intelligence, and federal civilian agencies.
Our work powers mission‑critical outcomes, strengthens technology partnerships, and creates meaningful opportunities for our people. We are defined by a commitment to excellence in delivery, a culture of innovation, and an environment where talent can thrive and grow.
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Everforth ECS is the federal segment of Everforth , a $4B global organization with over 10,000 employees. Our nearly 3,500 professionals deliver advanced technology solutions in data and AI, cybersecurity, and enterprise transformation, serving defense, intelligence, and federal civilian agencies.

Our work powers mission‑critical outcomes, strengthens technology partnerships, and creates meaningful opportunities for our people. We are defined by a commitment to excellence in delivery, a culture of innovation, and an environment where talent can thrive and grow.

Meet the challenge. Make a difference with Everforth ECS!

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