Cloud Engineer

ZP Group•Fort Meade, MD

47d•$165,000 - $195,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Piper Companies is seeking an Azure-focused Cloud Engineer with an Active Secret Clearance to support secure, mission-critical infrastructure for a federal client. This role is hybrid with onsite work required 3 days per week in Ft. Meade, MD.

Requirements

Active DoD Secret Clearance (required).
Bachelor's degree with 5+ years or Associate's degree with 7+ years in cloud or infrastructure engineering.
Expert-level experience with Kubernetes (containerization), RHEL, Jenkins, Terraform, and Ansible.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps methodologies.
Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
Ability to work onsite at Ft. Meade, MD three days per week.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with DoD compliance frameworks (e.g., STIGs, RMF) is preferred.

Responsibilities

Architect, deploy, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure solutions in Microsoft Azure/AWS environment.
Design and maintain Kubernetes clusters for containerized workloads.
Administer and optimize Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) environments.
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.
Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform and Ansible.
Ensure systems meet DoD security and compliance standards.
Monitor and optimize performance, capacity, uptime, and security across cloud and hybrid environments.
Support incident, problem, change, and knowledge management processes.
Collaborate with internal teams and government stakeholders to troubleshoot complex infrastructure and deployment issues.
Participate in on-call rotations and change management duties.