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Full Stack Cloud Engineer with Security Clearance

Gridiron IT SolutionsFort Meade, MD🇺🇸United StatesPosted 13 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid role offers an exciting opportunity to build and deploy mission-critical cloud solutions, leveraging your expertise in AWS, IaC, and programming for significant impact within a highly reputable organization. You'll thrive here if you're a hands-on, mid-senior engineer passionate about hands-on coding and problem-solving, with an active security clearance making you a prime candidate for this impactful position.

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Schedule
Temporary/Casual
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Job Description: Hands-on full-stack engineer (5+ years) to design, build, test, and deploy mission-critical solutions across a multi-year portfolio. This is a technical practitioner role, not oversight — write code, troubleshoot, and deliver working solutions. Work spans:

  • Design, build, and deploy an enterprise NOC/SOC in an AWS Landing Zone on the TS network fabric
  • Support migration of the Persistent Cyber Training Environment (PCTE) into the USCYBERCOM IL5 & TS AWS Landing Zone — deploy multiple 3rd-party containerized software solutions, maintain EKS clusters, and establish hybrid on-prem/cloud networking
  • Design, build, and deploy an IL5 Windows VDI solution on AWS WorkSpaces — Active Directory deployment and policy automation, Windows image hardening, and WorkSpaces provisioning/lifecycle automation via IaC Skills Required:
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect
  • Infrastructure as Code: AWS CDK (preferred) or Terraform
  • Programming: Python, TypeScript
  • Core AWS services: Lambda, EC2, S3, RDS/DynamoDB
  • Security: IAM, VPC, KMS
  • Networking: segmentation, routing, network security, hybrid networking (S2S VPN and/or Direct Connect), DNS, load balancing
  • CI/CD: CodePipeline, GitLab CI/CD
  • Monitoring: CloudWatch, OpenSearch
  • Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, ECS
  • Serverless/microservice patterns: Lambda, SQS, SNS
  • Security best practices
  • Preferred: active Contractor Green Badge with NSA Net Accounts; AWS Landing Zone Accelerator experience; SOC/NOC experience

Skills

Docker
DynamoDB
AWS
Load Balancing
Active Directory
CDK
DNS
GitLab CI
Kubernetes
Python
Terraform
TypeScript

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