Cloud Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton • Annapolis Junction, MD

23d

About The Position

As a Cloud Engineer, you will help modernize managed cloud platforms supporting client missions. You will work with cloud architects and engineers across Amazon commercial services, GovCloud, and Azure to build, evolve, maintain, and secure cloud solution components. Within a DevOps framework, you will create and manage container applications and use technologies such as Kubernetes. You will collaborate with stakeholders and teammates to deliver technical solutions, including modernizing legacy platforms and applications and developing new ones.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience engineering and operating AWS cloud infrastructure, including multi-account networking with VPCs, Transit Gateway, and centralized egress and inspection.
• At least 3 years of experience writing infrastructure as code with AWS CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation and delivering it through pull request-based CI/CD pipelines with automated tests.
• At least 3 years of experience automating infrastructure and cost controls using Terraform, AWS CDK, or Python, delivered through pull request-based CI/CD pipelines.
• At least 2 years of experience optimizing cloud costs, including rightsizing, Savings Plans or Reserved Instance coverage, storage lifecycle policies, and off-hours scheduling, with measured savings.
• Experience analyzing AWS and Azure billing data, including AWS Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage Reports, and Azure Cost Management.
• Experience using AI coding assistants or agents in daily engineering work and reviewing and validating AI-generated infrastructure code before it ships.
• Bachelor’s degree in a Computer Science or Information Systems field.
• DoD 8140 IAT Level II certification, such as Security+ CE.
• Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with cloud management and cost platforms such as Kion, CloudHealth, or Apptio Cloudability, including project budgets and spend enforcement.
• Experience implementing showback or chargeback, including cost allocation tags, account hierarchies, and shared-cost splits for multi-tenant platforms.
• Experience optimizing AI and LLM spending, including Amazon Bedrock, prompt caching, model routing, and batch inference.
• Experience with Azure commercial levers, including reservations, savings plans, and Azure Hybrid Benefit.
• Experience optimizing network and logging costs, including Transit Gateway, NAT gateways, public IPv4, CloudTrail, and CloudWatch log retention.
• Experience supporting AWS GovCloud or DoD Impact Level 5 environments, including GovCloud billing through paired commercial accounts.
• Knowledge of the FinOps Foundation Framework, including unit economics and cost forecasting.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and operate AWS cloud infrastructure, including multi-account networking.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code and deliver it through pull request-based CI/CD pipelines with automated tests.
• Automate infrastructure and cost controls, including schedules, lifecycle rules, tag enforcement, and budget alerts.
• Optimize cloud costs through rightsizing, Savings Plans or Reserved Instance coverage, storage lifecycle policies, and off-hours scheduling.
• Analyze billing data in AWS and Azure.
• Collaborate with cloud architects, engineers, stakeholders, and teammates to build, evolve, maintain, and secure cloud solutions.
• Create and manage container applications within a DevOps framework.

Benefits

• Health, life, and disability benefits
• Financial and retirement benefits
• Paid leave
• Professional development
• Tuition assistance
• Work-life programs
• Dependent care
• Recognition awards for exceptional performance and demonstration of company values

What This Job Offers

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