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Sr. Cloud Engineer

Category: Infrastructure/Cloud

Main location: United States, Alabama, Huntsville

Position ID:J0926-2365

Employment Type: Full Time

Position Description:

CGI Federal is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to support cloud architecture, deployment, optimization, and sustainment activities within a major federal modernization program. This role ensures secure, scalable, and high performance cloud environments that support application, data, migration, and DevSecOps operations. The Senior Cloud Engineer collaborates with Full Stack Engineers, Data Engineers, DevSecOps teams, QA Automation, and Product teams to build and maintain resilient cloud infrastructure aligned with mission critical requirements.
This position is located in Huntsville, AL.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

Cloud Architecture & Engineering
• Design, build, and optimize cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise applications and data pipelines
• Implement cloud native services, compute configurations, load balancing, and storage solutions
• Support modernization and migration of legacy workloads into cloud environments
• Ensure cloud deployments meet performance, scalability, and availability targets
Infrastructure Automation & DevSecOps Support
• Develop infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tooling
• Support CI/CD integration and automation for application and infrastructure deployments
• Implement monitoring, logging, observability, and automated alerting
• Collaborate with DevSecOps teams to maintain secure deployment pipelines
Security & Compliance
• Implement cloud security controls including IAM policies, encryption, network segmentation, and auditing
• Ensure adherence to federal security standards within cloud environments
• Support vulnerability mitigation, patching, hardening, and continuous compliance activities
Troubleshooting & Optimization
• Diagnose issues related to cloud resources, network configurations, deployments, and integrations
• Perform root cause analysis on cloud performance degradations or service interruptions
• Work closely with development, testing, and migration teams to address cloud related issues
Collaboration & Agile Delivery
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and technical design discussions
• Provide technical guidance to engineering teams and support cloud adoption best practices
• Coordinate cloud activities across development, migration, testing, and operations workstreams
Documentation & Reporting
• Prepare technical documentation including architecture diagrams, configuration details, SOPs, and runbooks
• Provide updates on cloud performance, incidents, and optimization activities
• Maintain documentation supporting audits and operational continuity

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
• Must have an Active Top Secret Security Clearance
• U.S. Citizenship
• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience in cloud engineering, cloud operations, or infrastructure engineering
• Hands on experience with AWS cloud services (compute, storage, networking, security, automation)
• Strong experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud automation tools
• Proficiency in cloud networking, VPC design, routing, security groups, and load balancing
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills
Desired qualifications/non essential skills required:
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience supporting federal modernization or national security programs
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with microservices, distributed systems, and cloud native architectures
• Scripting experience (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
• Experience with performance tuning and cost optimization in cloud environments
Due to the nature of this government contract, US Citizenship is required.
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CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $70,800.00 $156,700.00.
CGI Federal's benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include:
. Competitive compensation
. Comprehensive insurance options
. Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
. Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
. Paid parental leave
. Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
. Wellness and Well being programs
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Skills:

• Amazon Web Services Cloud
• Cloud architecture
• Communication
• Identity and access mgt (IAM)
• Infrastructure architecture