Cloud Engineer (Top Secret Clearance Required)

North Point Technology•Herndon, VA

About The Position

North Point Technology is looking to hire a Cloud Engineer to support a cutting-edge geospatial intelligence and data management program serving national security missions. This position requires an active Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph. The Cloud Engineer will oversee cloud computing strategy including cloud application design, management, and monitoring, and will develop and implement product development strategies using agile processes. The role involves delivering IT solutions across PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS models, analyzing complex environments, and designing pragmatic architectures. The engineer will work across conceptual, logical, and physical hardware and software designs and develop solutions using dynamic scripting and programming languages.

Requirements

Object-oriented programming (OOP) building enterprise-level applications using established design patterns
Multi-tiered or microservice application development
Experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud)
Containerization using Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift
CI/CD pipeline implementation using GitLab CI or Jenkins
Shell or general-purpose scripting (e.g., Python, Bash, Perl, PowerShell)
Linux system administration and usage
Active Top Secret clearance required to start; must be able to obtain and maintain TS/SCI with Polygraph

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting U.S. government agencies
Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, or CloudFormation
Deploying and maintaining Kubernetes distributions
GitOps tooling including GitLab and ArgoCD
Monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or ELK Stack
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes
Networking fundamentals including security and firewall concepts
DevSecOps principles and identity and access management (IAM)
Building automated pipelines

Responsibilities

Oversee cloud computing strategy including cloud application design, management, and monitoring
Develop and implement product development strategies using agile processes
Deliver IT solutions across PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS models
Analyze complex environments
Design pragmatic architectures
Work across conceptual, logical, and physical hardware and software designs
Develop solutions using dynamic scripting and programming languages