Cloud Engineer Junior - Secret Clearance

Dunhill Solutions • Arlington, VA

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Cloud Engineer designs, engineers, and integrates secure, scalable multi-cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructures supporting mission-critical enterprise systems in highly regulated government environments. The role focuses on Infrastructure as Code, cloud automation, and governance controls to standardize provisioning, enforce guardrails, and maintain compliant operations across major public cloud platforms. The engineer collaborates with security, networking, and application teams to modernize legacy workloads, improve observability and disaster recovery, and document architectures and operational practices for ongoing support.

This is a hybrid position based in Arlington, Virginia. An active Secret security clearance and U.S. citizenship are required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Approximately 4–7 years of hands-on experience in cloud engineering, automation, and security in enterprise or government environments, including multi-cloud or hybrid architectures.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code with tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or ARM templates and supporting automated deployment pipelines.
• Demonstrated experience configuring and managing cloud networking, identity and access management, and security controls in at least one major public cloud provider.
• Experience implementing and operating cloud monitoring and logging solutions and supporting incident response in production environments.
• Active Secret security clearance.
• Must meet applicable DoD 8140 requirements.
• Must be a U.S. citizen.

Nice To Haves

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification.
• Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure Administrator Associate certification.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production cloud environments.
• Experience working in federal or other highly regulated enterprise IT environments with formal cloud governance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement multi-cloud and hybrid cloud architectures for enterprise workloads, emphasizing security, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates, and automation pipelines.
• Engineer cloud networking, including virtual networks or VPCs, subnets, routing, peering, and secure connectivity integrated with on-premises enterprise networks.
• Configure and manage cloud security services and controls, including IAM, security groups, key management, configuration monitoring, and threat detection.
• Implement cloud monitoring, logging, and observability solutions to provide operational visibility, detect anomalies, and support incident response.
• Optimize cloud resource utilization through rightsizing, scaling policies, reserved and spot instances, and performance tuning.
• Design and test disaster recovery and business continuity strategies, including backups, replication, multi-region architectures, and recovery playbooks.
• Support DevOps practices by integrating CI/CD pipelines with cloud platforms, container orchestration tools, and configuration management solutions.

What This Job Offers

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