Job DescriptionWe are seeking a DevOps Cloud Engineer to join our Cloud Engineering and Operations team, with a focus on building, automating, operating, and continuously improving our Microsoft Azure for Government and AWS GovCloud environments. This role supports the development of reusable cloud deployment patterns, CI/CD pipelines, operational tooling, monitoring capabilities, and engineering standards.
The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with Azure or AWS; Infrastructure as Code; CI/CD; cloud networking; identity services; security controls; and operational support within a regulated enterprise environment. This individual will collaborate closely with infrastructure teams, application teams, security, compliance, and other operational groups to deliver secure, reliable, and highly available cloud services.
Key Responsibilities- Support implementation of cloud landing-zone capabilities, including subscription standards, resource organization, policy enforcement, naming conventions, tagging, and environment baselines.
- Engineer Azure and AWS solutions that meet enterprise security, compliance (CMMC, NIST 800-171), and operational requirements.
- Create reusable CI/CD pipeline templates, IaC modules, and deployment workflows for common Azure patterns.
- Develop automation, tools, and capabilities that help teams secure, manage, monitor, and troubleshoot Azure workloads.
- Ensure alignment with enterprise cybersecurity requirements, cloud-governance standards, and compliance frameworks.
- Provide engineering support to application teams deploying IT-based solutions into Azure Government.
- Deliver technical leadership for continuous improvement, root-cause analysis, and incident response.
- Collaborate with security teams to implement secure-by-default patterns for identity, network access, encryption, logging, and monitoring.
- Partner with application owners to transition workloads from design through deployment and into ongoing operations.
- Guide teams in understanding cloud standards, deployment patterns, security requirements, and operational responsibilities.
- Develop documentation, reference architectures, templates, and self-service capabilities.
Required Skills and Education- 6+ years of experience with an MS, 8+ years with a BS, 10+ years with an AA, or 12+ years with a high school diploma.
- Extensive experience working with cloud services in Microsoft Azure or AWS.
- Expertise in architecting CI/CD pipelines using Git-based tools and in building Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, Bicep, or similar technologies.
- Prior experience working in a regulated enterprise environment such as government, defense, aerospace, financial services, or healthcare.
- Working knowledge of automation and scripting languages such as Python or PowerShell.
- Experience with Terraform, Bicep and ARM templates.
Preferred Skills and Education- Experience with CMMC, NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53 or similar compliance frameworks.
- Azure or AWS Certifications including Azure Solution Architect Expert, Azure Administrator Associate, DevOps Engineer, AWS Solution Architect Professional, AWS CloudOps Engineer, AWS Developer or other related certifications.
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This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days. The posting will remain active until the position is filled, or a qualified pool of candidates is identified.
