Cloud System Engineer III – AWS DevSecOps & GitLab CI/CD

Select Source Solutions•Greenbelt, MD

1d•Remote

About The Position

The Cloud System Engineer III is a senior, hands-on cloud engineer responsible for designing, building, securing, and optimizing CI/CD capabilities in an AWS environment. The role combines AWS engineering with Git, GitLab CI/CD, automation, and DevSecOps expertise. The engineer will create reusable delivery pipelines, manage GitLab runners and repository workflows, automate cloud deployments, integrate security controls into software delivery, and help engineering teams adopt consistent cloud-native development practices. The successful candidate will work directly with AWS infrastructure and deployment challenges, design secure delivery patterns, and use Git and GitLab as core enterprise software-engineering tools. The goal is to provide secure, scalable, and reliable delivery platforms that help engineering teams build, test, and deploy applications to AWS consistently while maintaining security, governance, and operational standards. The role provides senior technical leadership for AWS-based DevSecOps and GitLab CI/CD engineering, supporting secure application development and automated cloud deployment. It includes collaboration with developers, cloud engineers, security teams, architects, and other stakeholders, as well as technical guidance and mentorship for engineering teams. The position is remote. Applicants must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
Senior-level, hands-on experience engineering and supporting production workloads within AWS.
At least 6 years of hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD, including pipelines, runners, GitLab configuration, and deployment automation.
Advanced hands-on experience with Git, including branching strategies, merge requests, source-control workflows, repository management, and release processes.
Demonstrated experience designing and building production CI/CD pipelines to build, test, secure, and deploy applications.
Strong experience integrating CI/CD pipelines with AWS environments and services.
Strong knowledge of AWS services, IAM, networking, security, and secure application deployment patterns.
Experience with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, IAM, and related cloud technologies.
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or comparable technologies.
Experience implementing automated testing, security scanning, quality gates, and other DevSecOps controls within CI/CD pipelines.
Strong understanding of software-development lifecycles, version-control strategies, release management, and cloud-native deployment practices.
Experience troubleshooting complex AWS infrastructure, GitLab pipeline, runner, networking, IAM, and deployment issues.
Ability to design clean, maintainable, reusable CI/CD templates and automation.
Strong technical communication, documentation, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Docker and containerized application environments.
Experience with Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, and/or Amazon ECS.
Experience implementing DevSecOps practices in regulated or federal cloud environments.
Experience with SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, container scanning, secrets detection, or other automated security tooling.
Experience with artifact repositories and software package-management workflows.
Experience managing GitLab environments that support multiple development teams or applications.
Experience mentoring engineers on Git, GitLab, CI/CD, AWS, and cloud-native software-development practices.
Relevant AWS, GitLab, Kubernetes, or DevOps certifications.
Experience in federal government, government contracting, or other highly regulated technology environments.

Responsibilities

Architect, build, maintain, and optimize enterprise GitLab CI/CD pipelines for application builds, testing, security validation, and AWS deployment.
Serve as a senior technical resource for AWS cloud engineering, CI/CD architecture, GitLab, Git workflows, and automated deployment practices.
Design standardized, reusable GitLab pipeline templates, modules, and deployment patterns for adoption across applications and engineering teams.
Configure, manage, scale, and troubleshoot GitLab runners and supporting infrastructure.
Design and maintain Git-based development workflows, including repository structure, branching strategies, merge requests, code reviews, protected branches, and release processes.
Integrate GitLab CI/CD with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, and IAM.
Design secure AWS deployment architectures using IAM, networking, access controls, secrets management, and cloud security best practices.
Automate cloud infrastructure and application deployments using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or comparable Infrastructure as Code technologies.
Implement automated testing, quality gates, security scanning, vulnerability detection, artifact management, and other DevSecOps controls throughout the CI/CD lifecycle.
Support containerized application deployments using Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, and/or Amazon EKS.
Troubleshoot complex AWS, GitLab, Git, pipeline, runner, infrastructure, networking, IAM, and application deployment issues.
Identify and improve pipeline and cloud-deployment performance bottlenecks and reliability issues.
Partner with developers, cloud engineers, security teams, architects, and other stakeholders to establish scalable engineering and deployment standards.
Provide technical guidance and mentorship on GitLab, Git, AWS, Infrastructure as Code, and modern DevSecOps practices.
Establish technical standards, documentation, operational procedures, and reusable engineering patterns.
Evaluate technical requirements, identify risks, and recommend AWS architecture and deployment approaches.
Develop tools and automation to improve developer productivity, deployment reliability, security, and operational consistency.
Support continuous improvement of AWS cloud architecture, CI/CD tooling, Git workflows, and software delivery practices.
Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.