TOMORROW HIRE

Cloud Engineer – Active Secret Clearance

TOMORROW HIRE

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Washington • District of Columbia • Washington • United States

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Salary

💰 $100,000 - $145,000 per year

Tech Stack

AnsibleAWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityDNSDockerKafkaKubernetesLinuxPostgresPythonSQLTCP/IPTerraformVault

About the role

  • Design secure, scalable landing zones, VNET/VPC architectures, and networking aligned to Zero Trust, and government policies.
  • Implement infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep) and configuration management (Ansible, SSM, Desired State Configuration).
  • Create reusable modules/pipelines (CI/CD) in GitHub/GitLab/Azure DevOps for repeatable provisioning and blue/green deployments.
  • Engineer controls to meet FedRAMP, FISMA, and NIST SP 800‑53 requirements.
  • Stand up and manage container and serverless platforms (EKS/AKS, ECS, Lambda, Azure Functions) and PaaS services (databases).
  • Implement observability (logging, metrics, tracing) using CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, or Synthetics.
  • Contribute to cloud governance standards, landing zone patterns, and best practices catalogs.
  • Partner with developers, cybersecurity, and mission owners to migrate/modernize systems (rehost/refactor/replatform).
  • Provide support, root-cause analysis, and knowledge transfer to operations teams.
  • Provide Tier I and Tier II Helpdesk Support to end users via phone, email, and ticketing systems.
  • Support user account management (Active Directory, permissions, and group policies)

Requirements

  • Active Secret clearance (required at time of application).
  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, IT, or a related field.
  • 3-7+ years of hands-on cloud engineering or SRE experience in AWS and/or Azure (federal or enterprise).
  • Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred) and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Strong foundation in networking (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, routing, VPNs), Linux/Windows, containers (Docker, Kubernetes), and git.
  • Experience implementing security controls aligned to NIST 800‑53 and FedRAMP.
  • Familiarity with RMF/ATO processes.
  • Scripting skills in Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
  • Ability to create clear documentation, diagrams, and runbooks; strong stakeholder communication skills.
  • Data services expertise (RDS/SQL MI, Postgres, KMS/Key Vault, Secrets Manager) and event-driven patterns (Kafka/Event Hub).
  • Must be able to reliably commute to Washington, D.C. 20032.
Benefits
  • Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance
  • PTO
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Hard Skills & Tools
TerraformCloudFormationBicepAnsibleSSMDesired State ConfigurationCI/CDDockerKubernetesPython
Soft Skills
stakeholder communicationdocumentationroot-cause analysisknowledge transfer
Certifications
Active Secret clearance