Cloud Engineer at Altagrove in Leesburg, Virginia

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and sustain secure AWS cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise and mission-critical workloads.
• Build and manage AWS environments using services such as EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, and related services.
• Design and support cloud networking including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, VPNs, Direct Connect, DNS, load balancing, and hybrid connectivity.
• Support cloud migrations, application modernization, workload deployment, and integration between cloud and on-premises environments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar automation technologies.
• Deploy and support containerized workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, and/or Amazon EKS.
• Configure IAM, encryption, logging, monitoring, vulnerability management, backup, and other cloud security and resilience controls.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes within DevSecOps environments.
• Monitor cloud availability, performance, capacity, security, and cost while troubleshooting infrastructure, networking, and application connectivity issues.
• Collaborate with network, cyber, software, systems, and customer teams to support cloud deployments, integrations, testing, documentation, and mission execution.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience designing, deploying, operating, and troubleshooting production AWS cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of core AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, Route 53, Lambda, load balancing, and related infrastructure services.
• Experience with AWS networking including VPC architecture, routing, security groups, VPN connectivity, DNS, and hybrid cloud integration.
• Experience using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar Infrastructure as Code and automation technologies.
• Experience administering Linux and/or Windows Server workloads in cloud environments.
• Working knowledge of containers and orchestration technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, and EKS.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps practices, and scripting with Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages for cloud administration and automated infrastructure deployment.
• Knowledge of cloud security concepts including IAM, RBAC, encryption, key management, logging, vulnerability management, least privilege, and Zero Trust principles.
• Experience supporting cloud migrations, infrastructure modernization, hybrid cloud, or multi-cloud environments; Azure or Google Cloud experience is a plus.
• Experience with AWS GovCloud or cloud environments supporting DoD, government, or regulated customers preferred, including familiarity with RMF, NIST, STIGs, or security hardening.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across cloud infrastructure, networking, operating systems, identity, and application connectivity.
• Active security clearance is required. Must be able to work onsite in Herndon, VA and travel as required.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, Cloud Computing, or related field; equivalent experience may be considered. AWS certification preferred; Azure or other cloud certifications are a plus.

Skills

Required

• AWS
• EC2
• VPC
• S3
• IAM
• RDS
• Lambda
• CloudWatch
• Route 53
• Elastic Load Balancing
• Terraform
• CloudFormation

Preferred

• AWS GovCloud
• Azure
• Google Cloud
• RMF
• NIST
• STIGs
• Security hardening