Junior Cloud Engineer

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As a Junior Cloud Engineer, you will support the design, implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of secure AWS cloud environments supporting critical government missions. You will work across cloud infrastructure, automation, security, operations, and architecture to help deliver reliable and scalable cloud services.

Work is 5 days onsite in a SCIF in Reston, VA.

The work you'll do

• Design, deploy, configure, operate, and maintain secure AWS cloud infrastructure in classified government environments.
• Support cloud services across infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments.
• Work with AWS services such as EC2, EBS, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda, CloudFormation, and related cloud technologies.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Automate deployment, configuration, monitoring, and routine cloud-management activities using scripting and automation tools.
• Monitor cloud infrastructure and application performance using approved monitoring and application performance monitoring tools.
• Manage and respond to cloud operations tickets, incidents, and service requests, ensuring issues are documented, prioritized, communicated, and resolved within established service-level expectations.
• Troubleshoot cloud infrastructure, access, networking, application, and service issues in complex environments.
• Support incident response activities by identifying issues, documenting actions, escalating complex problems when necessary, and helping restore services.
• Implement and maintain cloud security controls, including IAM, SSO, federation, security baselines, account-auditing policies, and other required controls.
• Support cloud governance, compliance, risk-management, and architecture-review activities in accordance with applicable government security requirements.
• Secure and harden Linux and Windows cloud systems and images in accordance with applicable security baselines and RMF requirements.
• Create, manage, maintain, and harden Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) and other cloud-based operating system images.
• Support cloud environments operating across multiple classification domains, including IL5 and IL6+ environments.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, cybersecurity, DevSecOps, and engineering teams to define requirements and implement scalable cloud solutions.
• Support containerized and cloud-native environments using technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Amazon EKS.
• Support microservices, serverless computing, and other modern cloud architecture patterns.
• Gather technical information and contribute to risk assessments, architecture reviews, compliance evidence, and remediation activities.
• Maintain technical and operational documentation, including troubleshooting guides, operating procedures, architecture documentation, and recurring issue trends.
• Communicate technical issues, recommendations, and solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Stay current on AWS services, cloud technologies, security requirements, and emerging engineering practices.
• Participate in team knowledge sharing and contribute to the continuous improvement of cloud engineering and operational processes.

Here's what you need

• Current certification meeting applicable DoD 8140/8570 requirements, such as Security+.
• 2+ years of relevant experience with cloud, systems, infrastructure, or engineering.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, supporting, or troubleshooting cloud infrastructure.
• Strong AWS experience, including services such as EC2, EBS, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda, or CloudFormation.
• Experience supporting AWS GovCloud, classified AWS environments, or other secure government cloud environments.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Experience implementing cloud security controls and working within established security and compliance requirements.
• Experience with IAM, authentication, authorization, SSO, federation, or similar enterprise identity technologies.
• Experience securing and hardening Linux or Windows cloud systems.
• Scripting and automation experience using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or a similar language.
• Understanding of cloud architecture patterns, networking, microservices, serverless computing, and container technologies.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, or similar container platforms.

Bonus points if you have

• Bachelor's degree.
• AWS cloud certification.
• Experience supporting AWS environments across multiple classification domains.
• Experience supporting IL5, IL6, or higher environments.
• Experience creating, managing, and hardening Amazon Machine Images.
• Advanced experience with Terraform and cloud infrastructure automation.
• Experience with Kubernetes or Amazon EKS in production environments.
• Experience with DevSecOps environments and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with microservices or serverless architectures.
• Experience with Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience supporting large-scale cloud modernization initiatives.
• Experience providing architecture guidance or technical leadership.
• Experience mentoring or providing technical guidance to other cloud engineers.

Security clearance

Active TS/SCI with Poly security clearance is required.

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