Cloud Operations Infrastructure Engineer, Lead

Booz Allen Hamilton•Arlington, VA

22h•Remote

About The Position

Booz Allen has an opportunity for a lead Cloud Operations Infrastructure Engineer to join the team. You’ll help oversee the design, sustainment, and optimization of secure, mission‑aligned cloud infrastructure across multiple CSPs, including AWS, Azure, GCP, or DoW‑affiliated managed environments. In this role, you will lead engineering teams supporting DoW and Special Access Program (SAP) workloads, ensuring compliance with DoW cybersecurity standards, secure multi‑boundary deployment patterns, and rapid, reliable delivery of mission applications in IL2-IL6, JWICS, or SAP‑accredited cloud environments. Through your leadership, we’ll help transform the way the Department of Air Force uses technology including cloud migration, integrating advanced technology, and modernizing legacy systems. You should thrive in a fast-paced environment and be able lead and mentor cloud engineers supporting hybrid, multi-cloud and tenant-owned architecture in DoW environments. You’ll be responsible for driving cloud operational readiness, incident response, environment hardening, and mission uptime across secure and classified networks. You should have experience coordinating with cybersecurity teams, AOs, and mission owners to accelerate accreditation timelines and environment compliance requirements. You should have expertise in AWS, Azure, GCP, or Oracle clouds, Cloud or network security, containers and Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines across DoW impact levels or classifications. You should have excellent communication skills, be able to work independently while leading others, and be able to work across development teams. You should be able to work in a fast-paced, agile environment, while mentoring the next set of developers to help them grow into tomorrow’s cloud operations leads.

Requirements

6+ years of experience supporting secure DoW commercial cloud environments, including IL2–IL6, SAP, or JWICS
5+ years of experience with Cloud-native or network security architecture such as least privilege or IAM, RBAC, or Boundary Protection
5+ years of experience with DevOps for Containerized or Kubernetes production systems, including AWS EKS, Azure AKS Rancher, or RKE
4+ years of experience with CI/CD and developer workflow automation, including Github Actions, GitLab CI, or AWS CodeStar or CodePipeline
4+ years of experience with IaC, including Terraform, Terragrunt, or Ansible
4+ years of experience with Kubernetes Deployment and GitOps tooling, including Helm, Flux, or Argo CD
2+ years of experience leading cloud operations teams
Secret clearance
Bachelor's degree
Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 IAT II Certification, including Security+ Certification, within 60 days of start date

Nice To Haves

6+ years of experience operating, deploying, and developing in scalable cloud environments across AWS, Azure, GCP, or Oracle Cloud
5+ years of experience with networking across hybrid and secure DoW or DoD environments, including NIPR, SIPR, TS, JWICS, and Special Access Program (SAP) enclaves such as FENCES and PLX
Experience developing cloud‑native microservices spanning frontend, backend, and data layers and implementing DoD STIGs and CIS Benchmarks to ensure secure system hardening and compliance
Experience troubleshooting complex issues across networking, application layers, and cloud infrastructure in secure environments
Experience with Kubernetes and container‑based architectures across multi‑classification cloud domains
Knowledge of identity and access management, including SAML, OpenID, and Single Sign‑On integrations
Ability to automate cloud provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible
TS/SCI clearance
DoD 8570 IAT Level II or III Certification
Advanced Cloud Certifications such as AWS SA Pro, Azure Architect, or GCP Architect Certification

Responsibilities

Oversee the design, sustainment, and optimization of secure, mission‑aligned cloud infrastructure across multiple CSPs, including AWS, Azure, GCP, or DoW‑affiliated managed environments.
Lead engineering teams supporting DoW and Special Access Program (SAP) workloads.
Ensure compliance with DoW cybersecurity standards, secure multi‑boundary deployment patterns, and rapid, reliable delivery of mission applications in IL2-IL6, JWICS, or SAP‑accredited cloud environments.
Drive cloud operational readiness, incident response, environment hardening, and mission uptime across secure and classified networks.
Coordinate with cybersecurity teams, AOs, and mission owners to accelerate accreditation timelines and environment compliance requirements.
Mentor cloud engineers supporting hybrid, multi-cloud and tenant-owned architecture in DoW environments.
Work in a fast-paced, agile environment.