Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Aquia

7h•Remote

About The Position

Aquia Inc. is seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team supporting a strategic Federal agency. In this role, you will be a key technical leader and "force multiplier," responsible for writing production-grade infrastructure, managing robust CI/CD pipelines, and serving as a security-focused partner to engineering teams. You will work in a cloud-first (AWS) environment, bringing a security-first mindset to everything you build and review.

Requirements

7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a cloud or federal IT environment
Proficiency in Terraform: authoring and reviewing modules, remote state management, and CI-integrated plan/apply workflows
Hands-on Jenkins experience: pipeline-as-code (Declarative or Scripted), shared libraries, and multi-stage pipelines
Strong Go development experience, including deployment within automated pipeline environments
Strong Python skills with demonstrated ownership of maintained applications
Docker experience: image authoring, multi-stage builds, and container security fundamentals
Experience with r daemonless container build tools
Solid AWS knowledge across core services (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, ECS/EKS, Lambda, etc.)
Security-minded approach to engineering: comfortable with vulnerability triage, patching workflows, and cross-team security advisory
Ability to obtain a U.S. federal Public Trust clearance (can be completed at hire; U.S. citizenship or permanent residency required)

Nice To Haves

Experience working with federal agency environments
Familiarity with FedRAMP, FISMA, or NIST 800-53 control frameworks
Experience with Zero Trust Architecture principles and implementation
AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, Security Specialty) or Security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, vendor-specific certifications)
Comfort working in highly regulated, compliance-driven environments

Responsibilities

Author, review, and maintain reusable Terraform modules for standardized cloud infrastructure provisioning on AWS.
Enforce IaC best practices including state management, module versioning, and least-privilege IAM design.
Conduct Terraform code reviews and mentor mid-level engineers on infrastructure patterns.
Design, build, and maintain Jenkins pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment workflows.
Standardize rootless container build workflows to ensure secure, daemonless image creation within CI/CD pipelines.
Continuously improve pipeline reliability, performance, and security gate coverage.
Write and deploy Go services and tooling within CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments.
Maintain code quality through idiomatic Go patterns, unit testing, and peer review.
Own ongoing development and maintenance of two Python applications, including bug fixes, feature work, and dependency management.
Ensure applications meet security and compliance requirements appropriate for the federal environment.
Oversee the configuration and deployment of log aggregation tools to support monitoring and data fidelity.
Collaborate with security and operations teams to ensure log completeness and data fidelity.
Build and maintain Docker images and container workflows across development and production environments.
Advocate for container security best practices, ensuring images are built and stored using secure, daemonless methods.
Serve as a security point of contact (POC) for other engineering teams, providing guidance on vulnerability management, patching strategy, and remediation.
Review code and infrastructure changes through a security lens and drive adoption of secure-by-design practices.
Assist teams in triaging findings, prioritizing remediation efforts, and meeting compliance-driven patch SLAs.