Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Aquia

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer writing production-grade cloud infrastructure for a federal agency. Focused on CI/CD, security, and cloud operations in an AWS environment.

Posted 4/29/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $125,000 - $160,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDockerEC2GoJenkinsPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Author, review, and maintain reusable Terraform modules for standardized cloud infrastructure provisioning on AWS.
Enforce IaC best practices including state management, module versioning, and least-privilege IAM design
Conduct Terraform code reviews and mentor mid-level engineers on infrastructure patterns
Design, build, and maintain Jenkins pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment workflows
Standardize rootless container build workflows to ensure secure, daemonless image creation within CI/CD pipelines.
Continuously improve pipeline reliability, performance, and security gate coverage
Write and deploy Go services and tooling within CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments
Maintain code quality through idiomatic Go patterns, unit testing, and peer review
Own ongoing development and maintenance of two Python applications, including bug fixes, feature work, and dependency management
Ensure applications meet security and compliance requirements appropriate for the federal environment
Oversee the configuration and deployment of log aggregation tools to support monitoring and data fidelity.
Collaborate with security and operations teams to ensure log completeness and data fidelity
Build and maintain Docker images and container workflows across development and production environments
Advocate for container security best practices, ensuring images are built and stored using secure, daemonless methods.
Serve as a security point of contact (POC) for other engineering teams, providing guidance on vulnerability management, patching strategy, and remediation
Review code and infrastructure changes through a security lens and drive adoption of secure-by-design practices
Assist teams in triaging findings, prioritizing remediation efforts, and meeting compliance-driven patch SLAs

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a cloud or federal IT environment
Proficiency in Terraform: authoring and reviewing modules, remote state management, and CI-integrated plan/apply workflows
Hands-on Jenkins experience: pipeline-as-code (Declarative or Scripted), shared libraries, and multi-stage pipelines
Strong Go development experience, including deployment within automated pipeline environments
Strong Python skills with demonstrated ownership of maintained applications
Docker experience: image authoring, multi-stage builds, and container security fundamentals
Experience with r daemonless container build tools
Solid AWS knowledge across core services (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, ECS/EKS, Lambda, etc.)
Security-minded approach to engineering: comfortable with vulnerability triage, patching workflows, and cross-team security advisory
Ability to obtain a U.S. federal Public Trust clearance (can be completed at hire; U.S. citizenship or permanent residency required)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Premium health care plans (90% employer-paid)
Employee stock plan
100% 401k match (up to IRS annual max)
Generous PTO package
Personal training and development budget

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Hard Skills & Tools

TerraformJenkinsGoPythonDockerAWSCI/CDInfrastructure as Code (IaC)Unit testingLog aggregation

Soft Skills

MentoringCollaborationSecurity advisoryVulnerability managementPatching strategyCode reviewProblem-solvingCommunicationOrganizational skillsContinuous improvement

Certifications

U.S. federal Public Trust clearance