Sr. Cloud Engineer

CGI • Huntsville, AL

22h • Onsite

About The Position

CGI Federal is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to support cloud architecture, deployment, optimization, and sustainment activities within a major federal modernization program. 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.

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

Benefits

• Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging.
• You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life.
• We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.
• Your work creates value.
• You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.
• You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last.
• You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.
• Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.

What This Job Offers

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