Cloud Systems Engineer

Swoop Technologies • Minneapolis, MN

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

Swoop Technologies is hiring a Cloud Systems Engineer to work with its infrastructure and deployment team to automate, scale, and test deployments of its products. Deployments may span secure, air-gapped, on-premises, remote, bare-metal, and cloud environments, and are currently closely tied to GitLab CI/CD infrastructure. Day-to-day work includes managing AWS resources for development and testing, refining Terraform provisioning scripts, building and monitoring profiling metrics, and securing the company’s cloud presence.

This is a hybrid position for someone based in Minneapolis/St. Paul or Washington, DC, with in-office work required at least three days per week. The role collaborates with security engineers and client engineers to support compliant cloud applications, improve cloud deployment workflows, optimize resource scaling, and maintain client installations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent technical experience.
• At least 3 years of experience in cloud provisioning and management.
• Understanding of basic software security standards and CI/CD configuration and buildout, including configuring GitLab YAML files.
• Experience with code containerization, including reading and editing Dockerfiles; container orchestration with Kubernetes; provisioning with Terraform; AWS cloud deployments; and resource monitoring with Prometheus.
• Knowledge of Linux, CentOS, and Windows.
• Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting.
• Active U.S. security clearance, or ability and willingness to be sponsored for a U.S. security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• AWS certifications.
• Experience working in AWS GovCloud.
• Competence in networking and virtualization, including firewalls, IP tables, virtual environments, containerization, VMware, and application ingress.
• Test/QA automation experience.
• Experience with code quality and security scanning tools such as SonarQube.

Responsibilities

• Build automation to monitor cloud resource health and usage.
• Work with security engineers to ensure cloud applications comply with NIST and STIG requirements.
• Automate cloud resource provisioning using Terraform and Ansible.
• Streamline how developers deploy, run, and test code in cloud environments.
• Enable cloud and orchestration scaling mechanisms that balance performance and efficient resource use.
• Support code and resource updates for client installations.
• Work with client engineers to monitor and fine-tune their resources.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level