Cloud Engineer

TIAG • Arlington, MA

11d • $100,000 - $125,000 • Onsite

About The Position

TIAG is hiring an experienced Cloud Engineer to support the Office of Naval Research (ONR) IT Support Services contract in Arlington, Virginia. The role designs, implements, maintains, secures, and optimizes enterprise AWS infrastructure supporting mission-critical IT operations and cloud modernization initiatives. It also supports operational sustainment, infrastructure optimization, and continuous improvement while ensuring compliance with Department of Defense cybersecurity standards and federal security requirements.

The Cloud Engineer independently manages cloud infrastructure, develops automated deployment solutions, troubleshoots complex technical issues, and collaborates with multidisciplinary IT teams and government stakeholders. The position is onsite in Arlington five days per week and requires an active Secret clearance and U.S. or naturalized citizenship.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline; equivalent relevant professional experience may be considered.
• At least 5 years of relevant IT infrastructure, systems engineering, or cloud engineering experience, including substantial hands-on AWS experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing, deploying, administering, and troubleshooting AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with AWS networking, compute, storage, identity management, monitoring, and security services.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting or automation language, such as Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Working knowledge of cloud security principles, access controls, vulnerability management, and infrastructure hardening.
• Experience supporting production enterprise IT environments and resolving complex infrastructure issues.
• Strong technical documentation, troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively with technical teams and government stakeholders.
• Active DoD Secret security clearance required; U.S. or naturalized citizenship is required.
• Must meet applicable DoD 8140 cybersecurity workforce qualification requirements associated with the assigned work role.
• Must possess applicable baseline and computing environment certifications required by the contract and designated DoD work role, and maintain required certifications, clearance eligibility, and compliance with ONR security policies.

Nice To Haves

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional.
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
• CompTIA Security+ CE or another applicable DoD-recognized cybersecurity certification.
• Experience supporting AWS environments within DoD, the Department of the Navy, or other federal government organizations.
• Experience implementing and maintaining AWS environments subject to RMF and ATO requirements.
• Experience with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and automated infrastructure provisioning.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar technologies.
• Experience with Docker, Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate, and containerized application deployments.
• Experience with cloud migration, application modernization, and hybrid cloud architectures.
• Experience implementing AWS backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, logging, and cost optimization solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, administer, and maintain secure, scalable, highly available AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Engineer and support AWS services, including EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, AWS Backup, ECS/Fargate, CodePipeline, and CodeBuild.
• Implement cloud networking configurations, including VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups, network access control lists, and connectivity solutions.
• Configure and optimize cloud compute, storage, database, and containerized workloads; implement high availability, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions.
• Monitor and optimize AWS resource utilization, operational performance, reliability, and cost efficiency; troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructure and service issues.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or comparable technologies, and automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, and operational processes.
• Design and operate CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments; develop automation scripts using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or equivalent languages.
• Integrate automated testing, security validation, and configuration management into deployment workflows; maintain source-controlled infrastructure configurations and support version management, change control, and deployment documentation.
• Implement AWS cloud security controls in accordance with DoD cybersecurity policies, NIST SP 800-53, and applicable federal requirements; manage IAM policies, roles, permissions, and least-privilege access.
• Support vulnerability management, remediation, patch management, continuous monitoring, logging, auditing, alerting, and incident response.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity and Information Assurance teams on RMF processes, ATO requirements, authorization sustainment, security documentation, technical artifacts, configuration baselines, and POA&Ms.
• Apply DoD STIGs, security baselines, and configuration hardening standards.
• Provide day-to-day operational support for ONR AWS environments and hosted applications; monitor infrastructure health, availability, performance, and resource utilization.
• Investigate alerts and incidents, conduct root cause analysis, and implement sustainable corrective actions; develop and maintain backup, recovery, and disaster recovery procedures.
• Support cloud migration, application modernization, infrastructure consolidation, and containerization initiatives; recommend cost optimization opportunities.
• Maintain technical documentation, system architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and cloud infrastructure inventories.
• Collaborate with government stakeholders and technical teams, and support integration of AWS services with existing enterprise infrastructure and applications.
• Participate in technical planning, architecture reviews, modernization discussions, and implementation activities.
• Support asset and configuration management, including ServiceNow CMDB integration where applicable, and coordinate infrastructure changes through change management and IT service management processes.
• Provide technical recommendations, knowledge transfer, operational documentation, and continuous improvement support.

What This Job Offers

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