Cloud Engineer

SAIC•Chantilly, VA

8d•Onsite

About The Position

SAIC is seeking a Cloud Engineer to support SAIC’s Prime Program, Aretuza in Chantilly, VA. Aretuza is a SETA program, supporting the NRO’s Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED). This role involves providing acquisition support, managing development contracts, and ensuring alignment across mission stakeholders in a cloud operations environment.

Requirements

Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience. Relevant experience to be substituted in lieu of degree.
CompTIA Security+ CE; AWS Certified Developer/Solutions Architect - Associate/Professional; and AWS Security Specialty
7+ years of experience in IT and cloud development, supporting modern enterprise environments.
4+ years of hands-on AWS engineering experience within regulated or government environments.
Proficiency with EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS/DynamoDB, VPC, and API Gateway.
Experience building and managing cloud infrastructure using CloudFormation or Terraform.
Experience with Python, Java, and .NET.
Capable of designing and supporting serverless and microservices-based systems.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as CodePipeline and Jenkins.
Familiarity with AWS data tools including Glue and Athena.
Understanding of IAM, KMS, and CloudWatch and experience applying government security frameworks comparable to ISM/IRAP.
Strong Agile collaboration, clear communication and documentation abilities, and effective analytical problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

Provide Acquisition Support & SME as primary CPOC Lead to program manager(s) and manage development contracts - Cost/Schedule/Performance
Develop, review, and refine RFPs, SOWs, SOOs, CLINs, ROMs, ECPs, and related acquisition artifacts.
Support industry engagement, vendor coordination, and technical transition activities for new and ongoing acquisitions.
Deliver technical COAs, spend-plan inputs, and acquisition recommendations to government leadership.
Manage daily Technical Exchange Meetings (TEMs) with contractors and advocate for government priorities during COTR tag-ups, PMRs, and BMRs.
Review and disposition RFCs, support assigned TIER actions, and coordinate RITM/CHG ticket activity.
Support multi-tenant integration efforts, ensuring alignment across mission stakeholders and resolving cross-team technical issues.
Provide Platform Cloud Operations expertise and maintain the TIER collection of future cloud-environment requirements.
Serve as ALT ISSE for ATO8/program office assets, ensuring continuous GPMO coverage.
Participate in security review preparation and execution; ensure contractors and tenants adhere to security policies and procedures.
Review, verify, and recommend updates to O&S procedures, deployments, and mission-support workflows.
Create and deliver cost, schedule, and technical briefings to government leadership.
Conduct detailed technical analysis supporting acquisition decisions, cloud-environment planning, and mission-system integration.
Facilitate issue resolution between ATO8 and partner teams, ensuring consistent communication and technical alignment.