AWS Cloud Engineer
The AWS Cloud Engineer will lead the architecture, engineering, and operational stewardship of AWS-based infrastructure supporting the NMMES program. They'll design and implement multi-account AWS GovCloud environments, author infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation/CDK, and ensure security, cost efficiency, and compliance with DoD requirements.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Norfolk, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Middle
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 7+ years of professional IT experience, with 5+ years designing and operating production AWS environments.
- Demonstrated expertise across core AWS services: VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, KMS, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail.
- Strong infrastructure-as-code skills with Terraform (preferred) and/or CloudFormation/CDK.
- Proven experience in AWS GovCloud (US) or another regulated cloud environment (FedRAMP High, DoD IL4/IL5).
- Practical scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation and tooling.
- Working knowledge of DoD RMF, NIST SP 800-53, and DoD Cloud Computing SRG.
- Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes).
- Active DoD Secret clearance at time of hire.
Nice to have
- Prior experience supporting Navy, NAVSEA, Marine Corps, or other DoD programs in Norfolk / Hampton Roads.
- Familiarity with Platform One, Iron Bank, or other DoD DevSecOps reference implementations.
- Experience integrating with DoD PKI, CAC-based authentication, and ICAM services.
- Multi-cloud exposure (Azure Government, Oracle Government Cloud).
- TS/SCI clearance.
Full description
The AWS Cloud Engineer (Expert)
will lead the architecture, engineering, and operational stewardship of
AWS-based infrastructure supporting the NMMES program in Norfolk, VA. The role
owns the cloud foundation on which NMMES applications, data pipelines, and
AI/ML workloads are built, with a strong emphasis on security, cost efficiency,
and compliance with DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (SRG)
Impact Levels.
This is a senior, hands-on
engineering role. The engineer will translate Navy mission requirements into
well-architected, automated, and repeatable cloud solutions in AWS GovCloud
(US), and will mentor mid-level engineers on infrastructure-as-code, resilience,
and secure DevSecOps practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement multi-account AWS GovCloud
environments using AWS Organizations, Control Tower patterns, landing zones,
and account-vending automation.
- Author and maintain infrastructure-as-code using
Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation/CDK; enforce change control through
Git-based workflows.
- Architect networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct
Connect, PrivateLink), identity (IAM, IAM Identity Center, federation with DoD
identity providers), and data-protection controls (KMS, S3 encryption, Macie).
- Build and operate CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline,
CodeBuild, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) supporting containerized and serverless
workloads.
- Implement observability using CloudWatch, X-Ray, and
third-party tooling (e.g., Splunk, Datadog) to meet Navy monitoring and audit
requirements.
- Support the Assessment & Authorization (A&A) /
RMF process: produce architecture diagrams, control implementation statements,
and evidence artifacts aligned to NIST SP 800-53 and DoD SRG.
- Optimize cost and performance through right-sizing,
reserved capacity / Savings Plans, and workload placement analysis.
- Lead incident response and root-cause analysis for
cloud-hosted workloads; drive continuous improvement of runbooks and automated
remediation.
- Partner with the AI, data, and application teams to
ensure their workloads land on a compliant, resilient, and cost-effective