Systems Engineer - Cloud

BOAB Ventures; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

BOAB Ventures is seeking a highly skilled Systems Engineer with strong Cloud Engineering experience to design, secure, and optimize mission-critical cloud solutions. This role blends system engineering, secure cloud architecture, virtualization technologies, and modern development practices.

The ideal candidate has experience operating in AWS environments, automating with Python/Java/JavaScript, and communicating complex concepts effectively to diverse stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating complex cloud architectures.
• Knowledge of secure cloud deployments and risk mitigation.
• Experience translating business needs into technical requirements.

Responsibilities

• Identify technical, CI, and operational risks and mitigations.
• Study feasibility and vulnerability of new technologies.
• Assess compliance with requirements and perform trade studies.
• Integrate, test, verify, and validate end-to-end systems.
• Develop diagrams and docs to support cross-organizational collaboration.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Apply agile software development approaches.
• Maintain cloud solutions to meet SLA/specifications.

Skills

Systems engineering

Cloud engineering

Automation scripting (Python/Java/JS)

Secure cloud architecture

Stakeholder communication

Agile development

Tools

AWS

Virtualization

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Systems Engineering with strong Cloud Engineering experience to design, secure, and optimize mission-critical cloud solutions. This role blends system engineering, secure cloud architecture, virtualization technologies, and modern development practices. The ideal candidate has experience operating in classified AWS environments, automating with Python/Java/JavaScript, and communicating complex concepts effectively to diverse stakeholders.

• Identify technical, CI, and operational risks, vulnerabilities, and single points of failure, and recommend mitigations
• Study the feasibility and vulnerability of new technical capabilities and analyze gaps
• Assess emerging and commercial off the shelf technologies in support of operational requirements and applications and perform technical trade studies to determine recommendation
• Evaluate, validate, and analyze technical development compliance with stated requirements;
• Integrate, test, verify, and validate end-to-end systems
• Develop diagrams, flow charts, and other system engineering-related documentation to problem-solve, identify improvements, create standards, and facilitate cross-organizational collaboration
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Study capability feasibility and vulnerability studies and gap analyses
• Apply an agile approach to software development consistent with the Sponsor's project management and software development frameworks
• Maintain the cloud solutions according to SLA or requirement specifications