Senior Cloud Engineer
Orchard•Huntsville, AL
•Onsite
About The Position
This role ensures secure, scalable, and high‑performance cloud environments that support application, data, migration, and DevSecOps operations. The Senior Cloud Engineer collaborates with Full Stack Engineers, Data Engineers, DevSecOps teams, QA Automation, and Product teams to build and maintain resilient cloud infrastructure aligned with mission‑critical requirements. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a high-impact National Security mission, while getting hands-on experience with cutting-edge technology.
Requirements
- Must have an Active Top Secret Security Clearance
- U.S. Citizenship
- Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience in cloud engineering, cloud operations, or infrastructure engineering
- Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (compute, storage, networking, security, automation)
- Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud automation tools
- Proficiency in cloud networking, VPC design, routing, security groups, and load balancing
- Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting federal modernization or national-security programs
- Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures
- Scripting experience (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
- Experience with performance tuning and cost optimization in cloud environments
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise applications and data pipelines
- Implement cloud-native services, compute configurations, load balancing, and storage solutions
- Support modernization and migration of legacy workloads into cloud environments
- Ensure cloud deployments meet performance, scalability, and availability targets
- Develop infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tooling
- Support CI/CD integration and automation for application and infrastructure deployments
- Implement monitoring, logging, observability, and automated alerting
- Collaborate with DevSecOps teams to maintain secure deployment pipelines
- Implement cloud security controls including IAM policies, encryption, network segmentation, and auditing
- Ensure adherence to federal security standards within cloud environments
- Support vulnerability mitigation, patching, hardening, and continuous compliance activities
- Diagnose issues related to cloud resources, network configurations, deployments, and integrations
- Perform root-cause analysis on cloud performance degradations or service interruptions
- Work closely with development, testing, and migration teams to address cloud-related issues
- Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and technical design discussions
- Provide technical guidance to engineering teams and support cloud adoption best practices
- Coordinate cloud activities across development, migration, testing, and operations workstreams
- Prepare technical documentation including architecture diagrams, configuration details, SOPs, and runbooks
- Provide updates on cloud performance, incidents, and optimization activities
- Maintain documentation supporting audits and operational continuity
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
