Cloud Developer/Integrator 2 - (AWS, Terraform, CloudFormation)

Akina • Annapolis Junction, MD

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About The Position

The Cloud Developer/Integrator 2 will support a team providing cloud-based geolocation solutions in near-real time to decision makers and warfighters around the world. The role designs, implements, and maintains cloud infrastructure, including modernization, migration, and roadmaps, while ensuring systems follow best practices and governance requirements. It develops reusable modules and enforces standards for creating and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

The position monitors infrastructure and system health and performance through logging and alerting, identifies issues, and implements improvements. It develops strategies for failure recovery, backup, high availability, cost optimization, and cloud-service benefit analysis. The role also contributes to continuous improvement initiatives, architectures, runbooks, operational procedures, and performance metrics, and transfers knowledge to internal teams. The developer stays current with emerging technologies and recommends enhancements to existing systems.

The position requires a TS/SCI clearance with polygraph. The salary range is $230,000–$282,000 annually; compensation may vary based on experience, geographic location, and contractual requirements and may fall outside the stated range. Akina describes itself as a small, Woman Owned, Service Disabled Veteran Owned business. Its compensation package includes 24 days of PTO accrued annually, 11 federal holidays, a 401(k) that is 100% vested on the start date with a direct company contribution equal to 10% of salary, employee healthcare costs covered at 100%, 50% of dependent healthcare costs, educational assistance for college classes, and coverage of costs for job-related training and certifications.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph required.
• Five years of experience in software development/engineering on programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline from an accredited college or university; four additional years of software development/engineering experience on projects with similar software processes may substitute for the degree.
• Experience provisioning, configuring, and managing cloud infrastructure and services, including compute, storage, networking, and IAM.
• Experience designing and implementing secure, scalable cloud architectures.
• Experience developing and maintaining IaC using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Knowledge of container and platform workloads, such as Docker and Kubernetes/EKS/AKS/GKE.
• Development experience with Java and React.
• Experience configuring monitoring, logging, and alerting with tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, or ELK/OpenSearch, and responding to incidents.
• Experience implementing and testing backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability strategies.
• Experience managing secrets and key management using tools such as KMS, KeyVault, or Secret Manager, as well as certificates and rotation policies.
• Experience optimizing cloud cost and performance through approaches such as tagging, budgets, rightsizing, and autoscaling, and producing usage/cost reports.
• Experience troubleshooting cloud infrastructure issues across networking (DNS, routing, VPN), security, and service limits.
• Experience documenting architectures, runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Experience with Linux OS.

Nice To Haves

• Hadoop/Cloud Developer Certification.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure, including modernization, migration, and roadmaps.
• Ensure systems are designed and maintained according to best practices and governance requirements.
• Build reusable modules, such as Helm Charts and Terraform modules, and enforce development standards for IaC creation and maintenance.
• Monitor infrastructure and system health and performance using logging and alerting; identify issues and implement efficiency improvements.
• Develop strategies for failure recovery, backup, high availability, cloud cost optimization, and cloud-service benefit analysis.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives to enhance system capabilities and efficiency.
• Contribute to architectures, runbooks, operational procedures, and performance metrics, where applicable.
• Provide knowledge transfer to internal teams.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and recommend enhancements to current systems.

Benefits

• 24 days of PTO accrued annually.
• 11 federal holidays.
• 401(k) is 100% vested on the start date.
• Direct company 401(k) contribution equal to 10% of salary.
• Company covers 100% of employee healthcare costs and 50% of dependent healthcare costs.
• Educational assistance toward college classes.
• Company covers costs associated with job-related training and certifications.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level