Cloud Engineer III with Security Clearance

Position – Cloud Engineer III
Location – 100% onsite; San Diego, CA at NAVWAR
Direct Hire Position Pay Rate – $180,000 - $200,000 Work Schedule – Standard DOD hours- 40 hours per week.
Education and Certification Requirements –
Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent Experience
Current Security+ Certificate Preferred Citizenship and Clearance Requirements –

• U.S. Citizenship required
• No dual citizenship
• TS/SCI Eligible, security clearance preferred

Travel & Passport – 20%, CONUS and OCONUS
Work Environment – You can work in the client’s offices as needed. In some cases, work in a government facility may be required. Travel may be required for customer engagement, team coordination, and potentially for business meetings.

Job Description: Mindbank is seeking a highly experienced Cloud Engineer III to lead the design, implementation, modernization, and sustainment of secure cloud, hybrid cloud, and edge-to-cloud architectures supporting advanced Navy and DOW mission capabilities. This role focuses on cloud architectures aligned to warfighter needs, distributed maritime operations, multi-classification environments, DevSecOps enablement, and secure platform modernization across AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, on-premises, tactical, and on-platform compute environments.

The candidate will provide senior-level technical leadership to cross-functional engineering, cybersecurity, operations, and government stakeholders to ensure cloud solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, compliant, and aligned to mission objectives.

Cloud Engineer III Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of secure cloud architectures that support data-driven mission capabilities, warfighter needs, distributed maritime operations, and Navy operational objectives.
• Develop hybrid edge-to-cloud architectures that integrate tactical edge nodes, on-platform compute, on-premises infrastructure, and cloud environments across operational and enterprise use cases.
• Architect solutions across multi-classification environments, while accounting for cloud-based cross-domain considerations and multi-level security requirements.
• Lead cloud deployments and modernization efforts across AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, on-premises, tactical, and containerized environments by aligning infrastructure, platform, networking, identity, and security requirements.
• Implement and optimize DevSecOps pipelines by integrating CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated security scanning, configuration management, and secure deployment practices.
• Ensure cloud architecture complies with DOW cloud standards, Impact Levels 4, 5, and 6+, Zero Trust principles, RMF requirements, cybersecurity controls, and mission assurance needs.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineers, developers, cybersecurity personnel, operators, program leadership, and government stakeholders throughout architecture, implementation, testing, and sustainment activities.
• Support architecture reviews, technical planning, risk identification, trade studies, and stakeholder briefings by translating complex cloud design considerations into clear recommendations and executable actions.

Cloud Engineer III Qualifications: • Vast experience in cloud architecture, distributed systems, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevSecOps, or related technical roles.

• Experience designing, deploying, integrating, or sustaining cloud solutions in AWS, Azure, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or similar cloud environments.
• Experience developing secure cloud, hybrid cloud, edge-to-cloud, containerized, or enterprise platform architectures.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, automation, configuration management, CI/CD pipelines, and DevSecOps practices.
• Familiarity with containerization, Kubernetes, Docker, microservices architectures, and cloud-native application deployment patterns.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, identity, storage, compute, security, monitoring, and infrastructure operations.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams of engineers, operators, cybersecurity personnel, program managers, and government stakeholders in dynamic mission environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain architecture decisions, technical risks, dependencies, and recommendations to technical, operational, and executive audiences.

Cloud III Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience supporting Navy warfighting concepts, distributed maritime operations, mission engineering, or associated mission capabilities.
• Experience engineering, deploying, automating, and sustaining infrastructure within AWS GovCloud or Azure Government environments.
• Experience with DOW cloud standards, Impact Levels 4, 5, and 6+, Zero Trust, RMF, cybersecurity compliance, system hardening, STIGs, vulnerability scanning, and patch remediation.
• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, Security Groups, S3, EBS, EFS, Route 53, IAM policies and roles, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Lambda, ELB, Availability Zones, VPCs, subnets, route tables, endpoints, NACLs, Transit Gateways, VPC peering, AWS Directory Services, AWS Workspaces, and AWS CLI.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools and formats such as Terraform, CloudFormation, YAML, JSON, Git-based workflows, and related automation practices.
• Experience using scripting and programming languages such as Bash, Python, PowerShell, and JavaScript to automate cloud deployment, configuration, troubleshooting, monitoring, and operational tasks.
• Experience with cross-domain solutions, multi-level security architectures, multi-classification environments, or cloud-based cross-domain considerations.
• Experience with data streaming, event-driven architecture, real-time analytics, distributed data platforms, or mission data integration.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift Container Platform, Amazon EKS, and service mesh environments.
• Experience supporting DOW, IC, Navy, tactical, shipboard, or operational cloud environments.