Cloud Engineer

ARETUM

Cloud / Platform Engineer deploying and operating cloud solutions in federal consulting. Collaborating on strategic technology and transformation for defense and homeland security sectors.

Posted 4/6/2026full-timeRemote • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureDockerEC2KubernetesOpenShiftTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Deploy containerized services (ECS or OpenShift)
Configure networking, load balancing, and scaling
Implement CI/CD pipelines and environment management
Integrate logging, monitoring, and observability tools
Maintain system reliability and uptime

Requirements

What you’ll need

**AWS Core Services:** ECS, EC2, VPC, ALB/NLB, IAM, S3
**Containerization:** Docker image management, container lifecycle
**Orchestration:** ECS (preferred), basic Kubernetes/OpenShift exposure
**Infrastructure as Code:** Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar
**CI/CD Tools:** GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps pipelines
**Networking Fundamentals:** Subnets, routing, security groups, NACLs
**Monitoring & Logging:** CloudWatch, log aggregation, metrics dashboards
**Security Basics:** IAM roles, least privilege, secrets management
**High Availability & Scaling:** Auto-scaling groups, health checks, failover
**Environment Management:** Dev/test/prod separation, configuration management
**Troubleshooting:** Logs, metrics, container failures, networking issues

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
Retirement Plan (401k)
Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
Paid Time Off
Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
Short Term & Long-Term Disability
Training & Development

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Hard Skills & Tools

ECSEC2VPCALBNLBIAMS3DockerTerraformCloudFormation

Soft Skills

troubleshootingenvironment management