BT-497 – Cloud Engineer Skill Level: Senior Location: Chantilly, VA (fully on-site, no remote option available)
**Please do NOT apply if you do not have an active Poly clearance. Those without a Poly will not be considered.**
Overview We are seeking a highly skilled Systems Engineering with strong Cloud Engineering experience to design, secure, and optimize mission-critical cloud solutions. This role blends system engineering, secure cloud architecture, virtualization technologies, and modern development practices. The ideal candidate has experience operating in classified AWS environments, automating with Python/Java/JavaScript, and communicating complex concepts effectively to diverse stakeholders.
Identify technical, CI, and operational risks, vulnerabilities, and single points of failure, and recommend mitigations
Study the feasibility and vulnerability of new technical capabilities and analyze gaps
Assess emerging and commercial off the shelf technologies in support of operational requirements and applications and perform technical trade studies to determine recommendation
Evaluate, validate, and analyze technical development compliance with stated requirements;
Integrate, test, verify, and validate end-to-end systems
Develop diagrams, flow charts, and other system engineering-related documentation to problem-solve, identify improvements, create standards, and facilitate cross-organizational collaboration
Translate business requirements into technical solutions
Study capability feasibility and vulnerability studies and gap analyses
Apply an agile approach to software development consistent with the Sponsor's project management and software development frameworks
Maintain the cloud solutions according to SLA or requirement specifications
Required Skills:
Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA including at least 2 years of Sponsor experience; Minimum of 6 years with MS/MA including at least 2 years of Sponsor experience; Minimum of 3 years with PhD including at least 2 years of Sponsor experience; an additional four years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
Demonstrated experience managing AWS services including C2S, S3, EC2, Load balancers, ECR, subnets, autoscaling groups and users/groups, Lambda, MSK, SageMaker, Docker, Kafka, KMS and
Demonstrated experience with Security controls including managing security groups, network ACLs (Role Based Access Control (RBAC) / Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC))
Demonstrated proficiency operating in Unix/ Linux-based OS
Experience writing and testing Python, Java, Typescript
Experience implementing and operating systems with Auditing tools, Enterprise Application Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) solution (OAuth), role-based access controls (RBAC)
Desired Skills
Agile
JAVA, PHP apps in Windows
HTML and Bash Scripting
Cypher query language or Neo4j
Database administration
Terraform
Stand up and maintain stand-alone server for LLM training