Cloud Engineer

Summary

Attain Talent is searching for talented cloud engineers to support a federal client and build secure, scalable, mission-driven solutions. The role focuses on architecting resilient cloud environments, leading modernization and migration efforts, and embedding cloud security and compliance best practices throughout the solution lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure, scalable cloud infrastructure solutions
• Lead cloud modernization and migration efforts across enterprise environments
• Develop cloud architecture standards and best practices
• Partner with engineering, DevSecOps, and cybersecurity teams to deliver secure cloud solutions
• Ensure compliance with federal security and regulatory requirements
• Support IAM, encryption, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and cloud operations
• Assess technical risks, architecture tradeoffs, resiliency, and performance optimization
• Translate mission and business needs into scalable cloud architectures

Skills

• **This position supports a federal client and requires US citizenship for Public Trust eligibility**
• * A strategic cloud engineer who enjoys solving complex infrastructure and modernization challenges
• * Strong in both architecture design and cloud security best practices
• * Comfortable partnering across engineering, security, compliance, and delivery teams
• * A clear communicator who can influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• * Proactive, collaborative, and comfortable operating in evolving environments
• * **Bachelor's degree**in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• * **4+ years** **of professional experience** in cloud engineering, infrastructure architecture, or cloud architecture roles
• * Deep hands-on experience designing cloud solutions in **AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, S3 preferred)** with exposure to **Azure, particularly disaster recovery and resiliency planning**
• * Strong experience with **Docker, Kubernetes, container orchestration, and infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible**
• * Strong understanding of cloud networking, compute, storage, IAM, security groups, monitoring, and infrastructure design
• * Experience with cloud security architecture including IAM, encryption, secrets management, logging, vulnerability management, and secure access controls
• * Knowledge of compliance frameworks such as **NIST, FedRAMP, FISMA, CIS benchmarks, or similar regulated environments**
• * Experience with Infrastructure as Code (**Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or similar**)
• * Experience supporting DevSecOps pipelines and CI/CD integrations
• * Strong documentation, architecture review, and stakeholder communication skills
• * AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Security Specialty, Azure Architect, or similar certifications
• * Familiarity with Zero Trust architecture principles
• * Experience supporting federal government agencies

Qualifications

Must Haves

• **This position supports a federal client and requires US citizenship for Public Trust eligibility**
• * A strategic cloud engineer who enjoys solving complex infrastructure and modernization challenges
• * Strong in both architecture design and cloud security best practices
• * Comfortable partnering across engineering, security, compliance, and delivery teams
• * A clear communicator who can influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• * Proactive, collaborative, and comfortable operating in evolving environments
• * **Bachelor's degree**in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• * **4+ years** **of professional experience** in cloud engineering, infrastructure architecture, or cloud architecture roles
• * Deep hands-on experience designing cloud solutions in **AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, S3 preferred)** with exposure to **Azure, particularly disaster recovery and resiliency planning**
• * Strong experience with **Docker, Kubernetes, container orchestration, and infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible**
• * Strong understanding of cloud networking, compute, storage, IAM, security groups, monitoring, and infrastructure design
• * Experience with cloud security architecture including IAM, encryption, secrets management, logging, vulnerability management, and secure access controls
• * Knowledge of compliance frameworks such as **NIST, FedRAMP, FISMA, CIS benchmarks, or similar regulated environments**
• * Experience with Infrastructure as Code (**Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or similar**)
• * Experience supporting DevSecOps pipelines and CI/CD integrations
• * Strong documentation, architecture review, and stakeholder communication skills

Nice to Haves

• * AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Security Specialty, Azure Architect, or similar certifications
• * Familiarity with Zero Trust architecture principles
• * Experience supporting federal government agencies

Benefits

• Remote Work (Hybrid roles will be specified in the job post)
• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Life Insurance, Short/Long Term Disability
• Employee Assistance Program
• 401(k) with 4% matching
• Liberal PTO vacation policy
• Generous Annual Continuing Education
• Annual Wellness Budget
• Bonus Incentive Programs (Employee referrals and performance-based rewards)