Full Job Description
Cloud Engineer
The Opportunity:
You9ll closely collaborate with fellow cloud architects and engineers specializing in Amazon Commercial, GovCloud, and Azure to build, evolve, maintain, and secure out cloud solution components. You9ll have the chance to work within a DevOps framework to create and manage container apps and use products like Kubernetes to further the mission. With access to our internal tooling and processes you9ll have the space and time to explore different ways of solving our clients9 problems, and you9ll partner with stakeholders and your team to deliver the right technical solutions. Whether modernizing legacy computing platforms and applications or creating new ones from scratch, you9ll have the latest tech and brightest teammates at your fingertips.
Grow your skills at the leading edge of innovation.
You Have:
35+ years of experience engineering and operating cloud infrastructure in AWS, including multi-account networking with VPCs, Transit Gateway, and centralized egress and inspection
3+ years of experience writing infrastructure as code with AWS CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation and delivering it through pull request-based CI/CD pipelines with automated tests
3+ years of experience automating infrastructure and cost controls, including schedules, lifecycle rules, tag enforcement, and budget alerts, with Terraform, AWS CDK, or Python delivered through pull request-based CI/CD pipelines
2+ years of experience optimizing cloud costs, including rightsizing, Savings Plans or Reserved Instance coverage, storage lifecycle policies, and off-hours scheduling, with measured savings
Experience analyzing billing data in AWS and Azure, including AWS Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage Reports, and Azure Cost Management
Experience using AI coding assistants or agents in daily engineering work and reviewing and validating AI-generated infrastructure code before it ships
Bachelor9s degree in a Computer Science or Information Systems field
DoD 8140 IAT Level II Certification such as Security+ CE Certification
Nice If You Have:
Experience with cloud management and cost platforms, including Kion, CloudHealth, or Apptio Cloudability, including project budgets and spend enforcement
Experience implementing showback or chargeback, including cost allocation tags, account hierarchies, and shared-cost splits for multi-tenant platforms
Experience optimizing AI and LLM spend, including Amazon Bedrock, prompt caching, model routing, and batch inference
Experience with Azure commercial levers, including reservations, savings plans, and Azure Hybrid Benefit
Experience optimizing network and logging costs, including Transit Gateway, NAT gateways, public IPv4, CloudTrail, and CloudWatch log retention
Experience supporting AWS GovCloud or DoD Impact Level 5 environments, including GovCloud billing through paired commercial accounts
Knowledge of the FinOps Foundation Framework, including unit economics and cost forecastingeconomics and cost forecasting
Clearance:
Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
Compensation
Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual9s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $86,900.00 to $198,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen9s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.
Work Model
Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.
3Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
3Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen or customer facility, in alignment with your leadership9s expectations and the needs of the role.
3Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed full-time at a customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.