Senior Cloud Engineer

Preferred Education :

Bachelor's degree or substantial career experience in Information Technology, Computer

Science, Engineering, or a related field

Preferred Certification :

AWS Cloud Certification (AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Professional)

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities :

7+ years of enterprise IT experience with a blend of architecture and hands-on engineering

Proven experience designing and implementing AWS solutions in enterprise or government settings

Prior direct, hands-on experience supporting cloud migrations at scale

Demonstrated success supporting mission-critical applications with high visibility and uptime expectations

Proficiency in both Windows Server administration and Linux systems (RHEL or Amazon Linux)

Strong experience with Terraform, Ansible, and GitHub / GitHub Actions

Familiarity with AWS-native container services such as ECS, Fargate, and EKS, with practical experience deploying or supporting containerized workloads in production

Hybrid storage expertise : experience with NetApp, caching appliances, or FSx for ONTAP

Strong scripting and automation capabilities (PowerShell, Bash, or Python)

Baseline familiarity with modern AI technologies, including Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) patterns in cloud-native architectures

Experience with GitHub Enterprise, branching strategies, and DevSecOps practices

Exposure to multi-account AWS organizations and hybrid networking design

Preferred Experience :

Background in state or government agency environments

Client is seeking 2 experienced and well-rounded Senior Cloud Engineers (with architecture experience) to join our core enterprise cloud operations and modernization team. Senior Cloud Engineers with complementary skillsets - one focused on Infrastructure & Automation and the other on Support & Operations. These individuals will provide day-to-day support across AWS and hybrid on-premises environments, ensuring stability, performance, and uptime of mission-critical, public-facing systems. In addition to operational support, the engineers will also contribute to modernization efforts - including lift-and-shift, re-platforming, containerization, and integration of emerging technologies - working with senior architects to guide longer-term strategy while driving hands-on execution.

Ideal Candidate profile :

Equally comfortable whiteboarding architecture and writing automation scripts.

Able to work across silos, bring people together, and guide consensus.

Thrives in high-accountability, low-handholding environments.

Operates with a disruptor mindset - challenges outdated models, while navigating government dynamics with diplomacy.

Key Responsibilities :

Design and implement enterprise cloud solutions within a hybrid architecture (AWS + on-prem).

Participate in modernization of legacy systems through lift-and-shift, re-platforming, containerization, and refactoring

Build and manage CI / CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible),and automated workflows via GitHub Actions and similar tooling

Collaborate on hybrid storage strategies leveraging NetApp ONTAP and caching appliances integrated with AWS

Apply expertise across both Windows Server and Linux (RHEL / Amazon Linux) environments

Serve as a key contributor in cross-functional architecture discussions and migration planning

Ensure alignment with governance, tagging, security, and operational policies

Troubleshoot technical issues across the stack : compute, network, storage, identity, and containers.