Cloud / System Engineering Lead (Senior)

Computer World Services•North Chicago, IL

3d•$160,000 - $190,000•Remote

About The Position

Computer World Services, Corp. (CWS) seeks a Senior Cloud / System Engineering Lead to provide engineering leadership for cloud operations, enterprise systems, infrastructure modernization, service restoration, and component lifecycle activities supporting the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. The role provides technical leadership for cloud environments, Virtual Private Clouds, DNS, load balancers, API connectivity, digital certificates, automation, and hybrid-cloud integration. The lead works with infrastructure, network, application, cybersecurity, service-management, Government, and vendor teams to deliver secure, resilient, scalable, and supportable cloud services. This is a remote position, with Chicago, Illinois-area candidates preferred. After-hours availability may be required during outages, maintenance windows, deployments, migrations, and infrastructure-refresh activities. The contract start date is March 1, 2027, and the period of performance runs from March 1, 2027, through February 28, 2033. Candidates applying acknowledge and consent to having their resume included in an active competitive Government contract bid. The posted salary range is $160,000–$190,000 per year; the offered rate depends on the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities, and/or experience and internal parity.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
At least eight years of relevant cloud engineering, systems engineering, systems architecture, infrastructure engineering, or enterprise IT experience.
Current AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer certification.
Active Secret clearance or higher.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading cloud or systems-engineering activities in a federal or DoD environment, including AWS GovCloud or other Government-authorized clouds.
Advanced experience with Amazon VPC, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, API Gateway, AWS Certificate Manager, and AWS monitoring and security services.
Experience planning cloud migrations, infrastructure refreshes, and modernization, and developing resilient hybrid architectures.
Experience with Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Python, PowerShell, or Bash, and VMware vSphere, vSAN, NSX, SRM, or VMware Cloud Foundation.
Knowledge of DISA STIGs, DoD RMF, NIST controls, IAVA requirements, CND Directives, and ATO support.
Strong technical leadership, architecture, vendor-management, and stakeholder-communication skills.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Advanced Networking, Security, or DevOps Engineer; Microsoft Azure Administrator; VMware certification; ITIL Foundation; or equivalent credentials.

Responsibilities

Lead engineering support for cloud operations, enterprise systems, and hybrid-cloud services, and architect secure, highly available, fault-tolerant cloud solutions aligned with USMEPCOM mission requirements.
Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, and secure connectivity among cloud, on-premises, DISA-hosted, continuity, and remote environments.
Engineer cloud DNS services, elastic load balancers, API gateways and integrations, and digital certificates, including renewals and troubleshooting.
Monitor cloud availability, performance, capacity, cost, and operational risk, and resolve cloud, network, API, DNS, certificate, compute, and storage issues.
Provide senior technical support during outages by coordinating diagnosis, mitigation, restoration, and validation with the Outage Response Team and supporting teams, and provide root-cause input.
Lead preparation and execution of installations, upgrades, migrations, component refreshes, and deployments, including implementation, test, and rollback plans.
Ensure cloud and system components are recorded in asset, configuration, and lifecycle repositories, and support refresh, disposition, and inventory validation.
Develop automation and Infrastructure as Code for provisioning, configuration, deployment, and monitoring using Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, or equivalent tools.
Integrate cloud capabilities with VMware, software-defined data-center, COOP, and on-premises environments, and design backup, disaster-recovery, and continuity capabilities.
Evaluate requirements, estimate costs, and prepare concepts of operations, architecture documents, engineering designs, and service-design packages.
Support implementation of DISA STIGs, DoD security controls, IAVAs, CND Directives, and RMF requirements, and coordinate escalation with AWS, DISA, and vendors.
Maintain architecture diagrams, configurations, certificate and API records, and SOPs, and mentor cloud engineers, systems engineers, and administrators.