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Parsons Corporation•Annapolis Junction, MD

23h•$148,300 - $266,900

About The Position

Parsons is seeking a Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure across development, staging, and production environments. The role manages and optimizes cloud services, develops infrastructure as code, improves CI/CD pipelines, and implements monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident-response practices. It focuses on system reliability, scalability, performance, cost efficiency, and cloud security, while partnering with engineering teams on application deployment and operational readiness. The engineer also documents infrastructure and operating practices, evaluates technologies, and may participate in on-call rotations and production incident response. This position is part of Parsons’ Federal Solutions team, which supports U.S. government customers and missions in areas including defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental services. An active Top Secret SCI with Polygraph clearance is required.

Requirements

At least 10 years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, site reliability engineering, systems engineering, or a related field.
Bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience in lieu of a degree.
Active Top Secret SCI with Polygraph security clearance.
Professional experience with at least one major cloud provider: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
Strong experience with infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform.
Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines.
Proficiency with Linux administration, networking fundamentals, and troubleshooting.
Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools.
Understanding of cloud security, IAM, secrets management, and secure infrastructure design.
Experience with scripting or programming languages such as Python, Bash, Go, or JavaScript.
Strong communication, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing highly available and fault-tolerant systems.
Experience with AWS services such as EC2, ECS or EKS, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, and Route 53.
Experience with Kubernetes administration and deployment workflows.
Familiarity with GitOps tools and practices.
Experience implementing cloud cost-management and optimization strategies.
Experience with compliance frameworks or regulated environments.
Relevant certifications, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, or Azure or Google Cloud professional certifications.
Experience working in a rapidly changing environment.

Responsibilities

Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure across development, staging, and production environments.
Manage and optimize cloud services, including compute, networking, storage, databases, identity, and monitoring.
Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
Build and improve CI/CD pipelines for safe, repeatable, and efficient software delivery.
Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident-response practices.
Improve system reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.
Establish and maintain cloud security practices, including access controls, encryption, secrets management, and network security.
Partner with engineering teams to improve application deployment and operational readiness.
Participate in on-call rotations and production incident response, as applicable.
Document infrastructure, operating procedures, architecture decisions, and troubleshooting guides.
Evaluate technologies and recommend solutions that support contract technical and business goals.