Empower AI-posted 5 days ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Reston, VA

Empower AI is AI for government. Empower AI gives federal agency leaders the tools to elevate the potential of their workforce with a direct path for meaningful transformation. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Empower AI leverages three decades of experience solving complex challenges in Health, Defense, and Civilian missions. Our proven Empower AI Platform® provides a practical, sustainable path for clients to achieve transformation that is true to who they are, what they do, how they work, with the resources they have. The result is a government workforce that is exponentially more creative and productive. For more information, visit www.Empower.ai . Empower AI is proud to be recognized as a 2024 Military Friendly Employer by Viqtory, the publisher of G.I. Jobs. This designation reflects the company’s commitment to hiring and supporting active-duty and veteran employees. We are seeking an experienced Lead Cloud Engineer (10-15 years) with deep expertise in Amazon Web Services (AWS) to drive the design, implementation, and governance of cloud-native infrastructure. This role requires both hands-on technical capability and leadership skills to guide engineering teams, ensure architectural best practices, and deliver scalable, secure, and compliant solutions.

  • Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance, mentor junior engineers, and lead technical initiatives to drive cloud adoption and best practices.
  • Cloud Architecture: Design and manage secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure, including multi-region solutions.
  • Security & Compliance: Implement and manage security controls, identity and access management (IAM), and data protection measures to meet strict government standards like FedRAMP .
  • DevOps & Automation: Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using tools like Terraform and build and manage CI/CD pipelines.
  • Performance & Optimization: Monitor and optimize cloud environments for performance, cost, and capacity.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with development, operations, security teams, and other stakeholders to meet technical and business requirements.
  • Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for cloud architecture, configurations, and processes.
  • Bachelors Degree or equivalent related experience
  • AWS Mastery: 10+ years in cloud engineering, with deep hands-on expertise across core AWS services.
  • Automation & IaC: Advanced experience with Terraform or AWS CloudFormation. Strong background in building modular, reusable infrastructure components.
  • DevOps & CI/CD: Experience setting up enterprise-grade pipelines (AWS CodePipeline, GitLab, Jenkins) for continuous integration and delivery.
  • Security & Compliance: Strong knowledge of cloud security practices, IAM policy design, encryption, audit, and compliance frameworks
  • Resilience & Performance: Expertise in architecting for scalability, availability (multi-region/multi-AZ), disaster recovery, and fault tolerance.
  • Collaboration & Communication: Strong ability to engage stakeholders, present technical strategies, and influence decision-making at senior levels.
  • Multi-cloud Awareness: Understanding of other platforms (Azure, GCP)
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