Cloud Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton•McLean, VA

25d•$86,900 - $198,000

About The Position

The Cloud Engineer will help modernize managed IT platforms and infrastructure to support client missions. Working with cloud architects and engineers specializing in Amazon Commercial, GovCloud, and Azure, the engineer will build, evolve, maintain, and secure cloud solution components. The role uses a DevOps framework to create and manage container applications, including with Kubernetes, and partners with stakeholders and teammates to deliver technical solutions. Work may include modernizing legacy computing platforms and applications or creating 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, including schedules, lifecycle rules, tag enforcement, and budget alerts, using Terraform, AWS CDK, or Python and 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 billing data in AWS and Azure, 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 Computer Science or Information Systems.
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 spend, 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

Build, evolve, maintain, and secure cloud solution components across Amazon Commercial, GovCloud, and Azure environments.
Create and manage container applications using a DevOps framework and tools such as Kubernetes.
Engineer and operate AWS cloud infrastructure, including multi-account networking.
Write 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 and analyze billing data across AWS and Azure.
Collaborate with cloud architects, engineers, stakeholders, and teammates to deliver technical solutions.
Modernize legacy computing platforms and applications or create new ones.