Cloud Engineer – AWS (Federal Environment)

Overview

We are seeking a Mid-Level AWS Cloud Engineer / Systems Administrator to support the design, implementation, and maintenance of a secure, scalable AWS GovCloud environment. This role will play a key part in cloud migration initiatives, ongoing operations, and ensuring compliance with federal security standards.

This is a remote position supporting a federal environment. Candidates must be eligible to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable AWS cloud environments
• Translate business and technical requirements into effective cloud architecture solutions
• Support cloud migration efforts, including planning, data transfer, and workload refactoring
• Manage and optimize AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation)
• Monitor system performance, ensuring high availability and reliability (targeting 99.999% uptime)
• Implement security controls, compliance frameworks, and monitoring solutions
• Collaborate with developers and data engineers to integrate applications and cloud services
• Automate infrastructure and processes using scripting and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and operational procedures
• Perform system patching, upgrades, and continuous monitoring
• Support disaster recovery planning, testing, and execution
• Contribute to Agile development cycles, including planning, troubleshooting, and deployment

Required Qualifications

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance

• 2+ years of experience in cloud engineering, systems administration, or cloud architecture
• Hands-on experience with AWS GovCloud and core AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation, CloudWatch)
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles and compliance frameworks
• Experience with cloud migration and hybrid/multi-cloud environments
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or EKS)
• Proficiency in scripting or automation (Python, Bash, or similar)
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
• Familiarity with AWS data and analytics tools (Redshift, Athena, etc.)
• Experience supporting federal government or law enforcement environments
• Experience deploying and managing containerized applications in Kubernetes
• Hands-on experience with Amazon EKS and cloud-native application modernization

Environment & Scope

• Support AWS-hosted infrastructure for a federal agency environment
• Participate in a multi-year cloud migration and modernization initiative
• Provide operations, maintenance, and monitoring of production systems
• Ensure compliance, auditing, and reporting requirements are met
• Deliver documentation and knowledge transfer to internal stakeholders

What Success Looks Like

• Successful migration of critical workloads to AWS
• Highly available, secure, and optimized cloud environment
• Strong documentation, monitoring, and disaster recovery processes in place
• Seamless collaboration across engineering, data, and security teams