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Cloud Engineer

Two Six TechnologiesHerndon🇺🇸United StatesPosted Sep 15, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid Cloud Engineer role at Two Six Technologies offers a competitive salary and the chance to build impactful, mission-critical systems that solve complex national security challenges. You'll thrive here if you're a skilled engineer eager to leverage Terraform for infrastructure automation and contribute to a collaborative environment focused on innovation and empowering the Intelligence Community. Apply now to join a team that's pushing technological boundaries for a safer future.

Quick Overview

Salary
$153.7k/yr
Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Herndon, United States
Posted
4 weeks ago
DockerGCPAWSAnsibleAzureCDKCloudFormationKubernetesPythonTerraform

Job Description

At Two Six Technologies, we build, deploy, and implement innovative products that solve the world’s most complex challenges today. Through unrivaled collaboration and unwavering trust, we push the boundaries of what’s possible to empower our team and support our customers in building a safer global future.

Within the intelligence portfolio at Two Six Technologies, our program engineers a cloud suite of applications and services empowering the Intelligence Community to share vital information, at speed, without compromising control.  If you want to build the systems that protect highly sensitive data while ensuring it gets to those who need it most, your next mission starts here.  

We’re seeking an impact player to support our high-visibility mission-critical project bridging the gap between data accessibility and national security by solving complex,  'no-fail' problems.

Two Six is looking for a highly skilled Cloud Engineer with hands-on experience in Terraform to design, implement, and manage infrastructure across our cloud environments. This role is critical in automating our infrastructure provisioning and ensuring scalability, reliability, and security across our systems.

What you will do:

  • Design, build, and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
  • Migrate existing CloudFormation code to Terraform
  • Develop reusable Terraform modules and maintain version-controlled infrastructure
  • Work with DevOps, Security, and Engineering teams to implement CI/CD and deployment strategies

What you will need:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
  • 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering or DevOps
  • Strong proficiency with Terraform (writing modules, managing state, workspaces, etc.)
  • Hands-on experience with AWS cloud provider
  • Experience with DevOps tools and utilities to include Github, Ansible & CDK
  • Ability to work effectively in a Linux-based development environment
  • Familiarity with containers and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Strong knowledge of networking, security, and IAM in the cloud
  • Proficient in at least one scripting language

Nice to haves:

  • Terraform SME
  • Hands-on experience with multiple cloud providers such as [AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP]
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools
  • Hands on experience with python
  • Knowledge of containerization

Security Clearance:

  • Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

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Two Six Technologies is committed to providing competitive and comprehensive compensation packages that reflect the value we place on our employees and their contributions. We believe in rewarding skills, experience, and performance. Our offerings include but are not limited to, medical, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability insurance, retirement benefits, paid leave, tuition assistance and professional development.

The projected salary range listed for this position is annualized. This is a general guideline and not a guarantee of salary. Salary is one component of our total compensation package and the specific salary offered is determined by various factors, including, but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills, geographic location, as well as contract specific affordability and organizational requirements.

Salary Range
$153,650—$230,476 USD

Looking for other great opportunities? Check out Two Six Technologies Opportunities for all our Company’s current openings! 

Ready to make the first move towards growing your career? If so, check out the Two Six Technologies Candidate Journey!  This will give you step-by-step directions on applying, what to expect during the application process, information about our rich benefits and perks along with our most frequently asked questions.  If you are undecided and would like to learn more about us and how we are contributing to essential missions, check out our  Two Six Technologies News  page!  We share information about the tech world around us and how we are making an impact!  Still have questions, no worries!  You can reach us at Contact Two Six Technologies. We are happy to connect and cover the information needed to assist you in reaching your next career milestone.

Two Six Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices based on race (including traits historically associated with race, such as hair texture, hair type and protective hair styles (e.g., braids, twists, locs and twists)), color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions and lactation), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age (40 and over), marital status, disability, genetic information, and protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. For more information review the Two Six Technologies Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Policy and the EEO Poster. 

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request reasonable workplace accommodation for any part of our employment process, please send an email to accommodations@twosixtech.com. Information provided will be kept confidential and used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.

Additionally, please be advised that this business uses E-Verify in its hiring practices.

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