Cloud/System Engineering Lead – Senior

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🔥 10 minutes ago

🌽 Illinois – Remote

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💵 $160k - $190k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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Computer World Services

11 - 50 employees

💼 Consulting

🎖️ Defense

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Defense • Logistics

Computer World Services is a federal-focused IT services firm that provides digital transformation, process optimization, and technology innovation to Defense and civilian federal customers. With over 30 years of hands-on experience, the company delivers enterprise-wide IT solutions and professional services, supports contract vehicles for the federal market, and emphasizes quality, compliance, and high-performance program ratings.

📋 Description

• Lead engineering support for cloud operations, enterprise systems, and hybrid-cloud services • Architect secure, high-availability, fault-tolerant cloud solutions aligned with USMEPCOM mission requirements • Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, and secure connectivity across cloud, on-premises, DISA-hosted, continuity, and remote environments • Engineer cloud DNS services, elastic load balancers, API gateways and integrations, and digital certificates • Monitor cloud availability, performance, capacity, cost, and operational risk • Resolve cloud, network, API, DNS, certificate, compute, and storage issues • Provide senior technical support during outages and coordinate diagnosis, mitigation, restoration, and validation • Lead installations, upgrades, migrations, component refreshes, and deployments, including implementation, test, and rollback plans • Maintain asset, configuration, lifecycle, architecture, certificate, API, and SOP records • Develop automation and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, or equivalent tools • Integrate cloud capabilities with VMware, software-defined data-center, COOP, and on-premises environments • Design backup, disaster-recovery, and continuity capabilities • Evaluate requirements, estimate costs, and prepare concepts of operations, architecture documents, engineering designs, and service-design packages • Support DISA STIGs, DoD security controls, IAVAs, CND Directives, and RMF requirements • Coordinate escalation with AWS, DISA, and vendors • Mentor cloud engineers, systems engineers, and administrators

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field • Minimum of eight (8) years of relevant cloud engineering, systems engineering, systems architecture, infrastructure engineering, or enterprise IT experience • Current AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer certification required • Active Secret clearance or higher required • Experience leading cloud or systems-engineering activities in a federal or DoD environment, including AWS GovCloud or other Government-authorized clouds • Advanced experience with Amazon VPC, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, API Gateway, AWS Certificate Manager, and AWS monitoring and security services • Experience planning cloud migrations, infrastructure refreshes, and modernization, and developing resilient hybrid architectures • Experience with Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Python, PowerShell, or Bash, and VMware vSphere, vSAN, NSX, SRM, or VMware Cloud Foundation • Knowledge of DISA STIGs, DoD RMF, NIST controls, IAVA requirements, CND Directives, and ATO support • Strong technical leadership, architecture, vendor-management, and stakeholder-communication skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote position • After-hours availability may be required during outages, maintenance windows, deployments, migrations, and infrastructure-refresh activities • Opportunity to provide engineering leadership and mentorship • Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities • Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer

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