Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Attain Talent is searching for talented cloud engineers to support a federal client and build secure, scalable, mission-driven solutions. The role focuses on architecting resilient cloud environments, leading modernization and migration efforts, and embedding cloud security and compliance best practices throughout the solution lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement secure, scalable cloud infrastructure solutions
- Lead cloud modernization and migration efforts across enterprise environments
- Develop cloud architecture standards and best practices
- Partner with engineering, DevSecOps, and cybersecurity teams to deliver secure cloud solutions
- Ensure compliance with federal security and regulatory requirements
- Support IAM, encryption, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and cloud operations
- Assess technical risks, architecture tradeoffs, resiliency, and performance optimization
- Translate mission and business needs into scalable cloud architectures
Skills
- **This position supports a federal client and requires US citizenship for Public Trust eligibility**
- * A strategic cloud engineer who enjoys solving complex infrastructure and modernization challenges
- * Strong in both architecture design and cloud security best practices
- * Comfortable partnering across engineering, security, compliance, and delivery teams
- * A clear communicator who can influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- * Proactive, collaborative, and comfortable operating in evolving environments
- * **Bachelor's degree**in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- * **4+ years** **of professional experience** in cloud engineering, infrastructure architecture, or cloud architecture roles
- * Deep hands-on experience designing cloud solutions in **AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, S3 preferred)** with exposure to **Azure, particularly disaster recovery and resiliency planning**
- * Strong experience with **Docker, Kubernetes, container orchestration, and infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible**
- * Strong understanding of cloud networking, compute, storage, IAM, security groups, monitoring, and infrastructure design
- * Experience with cloud security architecture including IAM, encryption, secrets management, logging, vulnerability management, and secure access controls
- * Knowledge of compliance frameworks such as **NIST, FedRAMP, FISMA, CIS benchmarks, or similar regulated environments**
- * Experience with Infrastructure as Code (**Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or similar**)
- * Experience supporting DevSecOps pipelines and CI/CD integrations
- * Strong documentation, architecture review, and stakeholder communication skills
- * AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Security Specialty, Azure Architect, or similar certifications
- * Familiarity with Zero Trust architecture principles
- * Experience supporting federal government agencies
Benefits
- Remote Work (Hybrid roles will be specified in the job post)
- Medical, Dental, and Vision
- Life Insurance, Short/Long Term Disability
- Employee Assistance Program
- 401(k) with 4% matching
- Liberal PTO vacation policy
- Generous Annual Continuing Education
- Annual Wellness Budget
- Bonus Incentive Programs (Employee referrals and performance-based rewards)
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