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AWS Cloud Engineer with Security Clearance
RMantrasArlington, VA🇺🇸United StatesPosted 23 Jul 2026
Why This Role Stands Out
Leverage your expertise in AWS and security clearance to design, build, and maintain critical cloud infrastructure in a dynamic on-site environment. This role offers significant opportunities for skill development and impactful contributions within a respected organization. If you thrive on complex technical challenges and possess a strong understanding of cloud security, this is an excellent opportunity to advance your career.
Quick Overview
Work Type
On Site
Schedule
Employee
Level
Mid Senior
Job Description
This position is 100% Onsite. This position is in Arlington, VA, with occasional/situational travel. Certificate 8570 IAT Level II Baseline Certification (e.g. CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP) Location: 4800 Mark Center Drive, Alexandria, VA 22311 Schedule 100% onsite Clearance US Citizens with DOD Top Secret/SCI Responsibilities Qualifications * Provide continuous development and continuous integration to include operational engineering and integration, release management, implementation & migration, and training & knowledge transfer.
* Design, build, and maintain capabilities utilizing the current Amazon C2S enabled architecture and tools to include Ansible, Cloud Formation, EC2, ELB, RDS, Lambda, S3, Terraform, and containerization.
* Configure and manage core AWS services such as EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, KMS, and Config.
* Operate and improve reliability/availability through monitoring, alerting, incident response, and continual service improvement.
* Automate system deployments and operational tasks using scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
* Document and deliver an approach for automated testing including integration, regression, and acceptance testing, including tools and processes.
* Produce and maintain technical documentation (build guides, runbooks, diagrams, and operational procedures).
* Manage, sustain, and improve the integration and testing environments on the unclassified and classified infrastructure both on premise and in the cloud to validate all capabilities and technologies prior to being deployed on the production environment.
* Stage new and upgraded services components or services to integration and testing environment.
* Develop and engineer improvements to the cloud infrastructure and architecture to support continuous development and continuous integration utilizing modern practices and tools.
* Support and perform deployment orchestration, automation, and security configuration management (i.e., CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, Bitbucket).
* Maintain documentation of code developed in support of CESO environments.
* Support patching, logging, vulnerability scanning, and compliance tracking.
* Participate in the release management process.
* Participate in Agile ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives) and Jira-based task tracking.
* Develop automation to reduce manual operations (provisioning, patching, backups, scaling, routine maintenance. Basic Qualifications * Candidate must currently have a TS/SCI with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI Poly.
* BA/BS and 8-12 years of experience in Information Technology.
* Experience with AWS or other cloud services reinforced with architectural design experience.
* 4 years’ extensive experience in AWS Cloud Technologies and infrastructure-as-code concepts.
* 4 years’ experience in implementing Amazon C2S enabled architectures and tools to include Ansible, Cloud Formations, Terraform, JMETER, EC2, ELB, RDS, Lambda, Docker, GIT and S3.
* 4 years’ experience in building end-to-end solutions on AWS leveraging Object Oriented Programing (OOP) programming. (Python, Ruby, Java, PHP) and AWS SDK.
* Experience with deployment orchestration, automation, and security configuration management (i.e., CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, Bitbucket)
* IAT Level II Baseline Certification (e.g. CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP) Preferred Qualifications * Prior experience with DISA and DISA’s support to mission partners.
* Experience or familiarity with Citrix VDI/VDA.
* Design, build, and maintain capabilities utilizing the current Amazon C2S enabled architecture and tools to include Ansible, Cloud Formation, EC2, ELB, RDS, Lambda, S3, Terraform, and containerization.
* Configure and manage core AWS services such as EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, KMS, and Config.
* Operate and improve reliability/availability through monitoring, alerting, incident response, and continual service improvement.
* Automate system deployments and operational tasks using scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
* Document and deliver an approach for automated testing including integration, regression, and acceptance testing, including tools and processes.
* Produce and maintain technical documentation (build guides, runbooks, diagrams, and operational procedures).
* Manage, sustain, and improve the integration and testing environments on the unclassified and classified infrastructure both on premise and in the cloud to validate all capabilities and technologies prior to being deployed on the production environment.
* Stage new and upgraded services components or services to integration and testing environment.
* Develop and engineer improvements to the cloud infrastructure and architecture to support continuous development and continuous integration utilizing modern practices and tools.
* Support and perform deployment orchestration, automation, and security configuration management (i.e., CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, Bitbucket).
* Maintain documentation of code developed in support of CESO environments.
* Support patching, logging, vulnerability scanning, and compliance tracking.
* Participate in the release management process.
* Participate in Agile ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives) and Jira-based task tracking.
* Develop automation to reduce manual operations (provisioning, patching, backups, scaling, routine maintenance. Basic Qualifications * Candidate must currently have a TS/SCI with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI Poly.
* BA/BS and 8-12 years of experience in Information Technology.
* Experience with AWS or other cloud services reinforced with architectural design experience.
* 4 years’ extensive experience in AWS Cloud Technologies and infrastructure-as-code concepts.
* 4 years’ experience in implementing Amazon C2S enabled architectures and tools to include Ansible, Cloud Formations, Terraform, JMETER, EC2, ELB, RDS, Lambda, Docker, GIT and S3.
* 4 years’ experience in building end-to-end solutions on AWS leveraging Object Oriented Programing (OOP) programming. (Python, Ruby, Java, PHP) and AWS SDK.
* Experience with deployment orchestration, automation, and security configuration management (i.e., CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, Bitbucket)
* IAT Level II Baseline Certification (e.g. CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP) Preferred Qualifications * Prior experience with DISA and DISA’s support to mission partners.
* Experience or familiarity with Citrix VDI/VDA.
Skills
Docker
PHP
Ruby
AWS
Agile
Ansible
Bash
CloudFormation
Git
JMeter
Java
Jira
PowerShell
Python
Terraform
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