Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Description

The company is a technology firm, part of a larger global organisation, with over 13,000 people. Its clients span defense, national security, and public safety, plus civilian and military health.

You will own infrastructure design decisions for mission-critical cloud environments, set technical direction for infrastructure-as-code, design compute, storage, and networking for large-scale use, and mentor the engineers who build from your designs.

Responsibilities

• Design infrastructure for mission-critical workloads across compute, storage, and networking at enterprise scale.
• Set the team's standards and technical direction for infrastructure-as-code.
• Plan disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity for the environments you support.
• Implement security controls, maintain STIG compliance, and fix vulnerabilities in the infrastructure you own.
• Investigate complex Tier 3 incidents and find and fix their root causes.
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers, reviewing their infrastructure-as-code and upholding technical standards.
• Deliver new infrastructure as reusable, version-controlled code modules rather than one-off manual setups.
• Build cloud architecture that meets both mission performance and security needs at enterprise scale.
• Deliver disaster recovery and continuity solutions that are validated and ready to use.
• Shorten incident resolution by making root-cause investigation the norm.
• Become the person junior and mid-level engineers consult on architecture questions, because they trust your judgment.

Requirements

• At least 5 years in cloud engineering or infrastructure, with hands-on production work in infrastructure-as-code (such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible), containers and orchestration (such as Docker or Kubernetes), and Linux or Unix administration.
• At least 2 years mentoring or providing technical leadership to other engineers.
• DoD 8570 IAT Level II or higher (Security+, CISSP, CASP, CCNA Security, or equivalent), or the DoD 8140 equivalent.
• Active TS clearance is required.
• Bonus: Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field, or 4+ years of relevant job or military experience in place of a degree.
• Bonus: Experience designing for multi-classification or cross-domain environments.
• Bonus: AWS or Azure certification at Solutions Architect level or higher.
• Bonus: Kubernetes certification (CKA or CKAD).
• Bonus: Experience with configuration management tools beyond Ansible, such as Chef or Puppet.
• Bonus: Familiarity with national security systems and air-gapped environments.
• Bonus: SCI clearance is preferred.

Conditions

Base pay for this role in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia is $120,400 - $234,700 USD, as required by local law.

Pay varies by office location, role, skill set, and experience level.

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis with no fixed deadline.

The company is committed to a culture where everyone is respected, feels they belong, and has equal opportunity.

Benefits

• A wide variety of benefits is offered.
• Hands-on experience, certifications, and industry training to support your growth.