Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BAE Systems is a defense, aerospace, and security company delivering technology and services for national security. The DevOps Cloud Engineer will build, automate, operate, and continuously improve Azure Government and AWS GovCloud environments, including cloud deployment patterns, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and operational tooling. The role also supports secure cloud deployments, compliance requirements, incident response, and collaboration with application, infrastructure, security, and compliance teams.
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
Skills
- 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. Or equivalent combination of education and work experience
- 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
- Experience with Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
- 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
Benefits
- Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered health savings accounts.
- Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered a 401(k) savings plan.
- Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered disability coverage.
- Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered life and accident insurance.
- Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered an employee assistance program.
- Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered a legal plan.
- Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance.
- Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered paid time off.
- Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered paid holidays.
- Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered paid parental leave.
- Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered paid military leave.
- Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered paid bereavement leave.
- Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered applicable federal and state sick leave.
- Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards.
- Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
- Temporary employees can elect to participate in the 401(k) savings plan.
- Temporary employees working 20+ hours per week are eligible for medical benefits.
- Temporary employees working 20+ hours per week are eligible for the employee assistance program.
- Temporary employees working 20+ hours per week are eligible for business travel accident insurance.
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