Cloud Solutions Engineer - (ts Clearance Required)

This role focuses on designing, implementing, and sustaining secure cloud solutions across multiple classification levels, including DoD Impact Level (IL) 4/IL5 environments. It requires advanced cloud infrastructure administration expertise, operational discipline, and familiarity with DoD compliance and accreditation requirements. Responsibilities include managing compute, storage, networking, VMs, and containers, implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), monitoring performance and security, ensuring compliance with RMF, NIST, STIGs, and leading troubleshooting and modernization efforts.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, administer, and sustain secure cloud solutions across multiple classification levels, manage compute, storage, networking, VMs, and containers/Kubernetes
  2. Implement and operate Infrastructure as Code (IaC) at scale using Terraform, CloudFormation, and/or ARM to automate and standardize deployments
  3. Monitor and improve availability, performance, security posture, capacity, and cost using enterprise observability, tuning, and optimization practices
  4. Ensure compliance and accreditation readiness by partnering with security teams on RMF, NIST, STIGs, DoD 8140, vulnerability remediation, and ATO activities
  5. Lead troubleshooting and resilience for mission-critical systems, including backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and support for 24/7 operations/on-call rotation

Skills

Required

  • Cloud infrastructure administration
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • Terraform
  • CloudFormation
  • ARM
  • Observability
  • Performance tuning
  • Security posture management
  • Capacity planning
  • Cost optimization
  • RMF
  • NIST
  • STIGs
  • DoD 8140
  • ATO activities
  • Troubleshooting
  • Disaster recovery
  • Business continuity
  • 24/7 operations/on-call rotation
  • Cloud migrations
  • DevSecOps
  • Privileged access controls
  • Zero trust controls
  • TS clearance

Nice to have

  • CISSP
  • RHCSA
  • CKA
  • CISM
  • CKAD
  • Kubernetes
  • Containers

What the JD emphasized

  • TS Clearance Required
  • DoD Impact Level (IL) 4/IL5 environments
  • DoD compliance and accreditation requirements
  • RMF, NIST, STIGs, DoD 8140
  • Active TS clearance with the ability to obtain an SCI