Cloud Engineer

🔥 13 hours ago

🦀 Maryland, Virginia – Remote

🦀 Maryland – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $88.2k - $171.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

☁️ Cloud Engineer

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Groundswell

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201 - 500 employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🎖️ Defense

Consulting • Logistics • Defense

Groundswell is a leading technology partner for federal agencies, specializing in delivering innovative solutions for modernization and efficiency. With expertise in platforms like Appian, SAP, Workday, and UiPath, Groundswell focuses on empowering federal agencies with low-code development, advanced ERP, and automation technologies. The company partners with federal organizations to enhance recruitment strategies, manage defense transportation, and optimize project management. Groundswell's mission is to challenge the traditional government contracting approach by offering cutting-edge, agile, and tailored technology solutions to help federal agencies meet their goals.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, test, and deploy AWS cloud infrastructure and application services supporting secure, scalable, highly available mission platforms • Build and operate containerized services using Kubernetes and related cloud-native technologies • Develop repeatable Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD workflows • Integrate data and application services across APIs, message or event flows, and structured data sources • Apply cloud security practices across identity, networking, secrets, encryption, logging, vulnerability management, and least-privilege access • Instrument services and infrastructure for health, performance, and operational insight • Troubleshoot distributed-system issues and drive root-cause resolution • Partner with architects, software engineers, data specialists, security teams, and customer stakeholders • Produce architecture notes, runbooks, deployment guidance, and maintainable documentation

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or a related technical discipline with a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience • Demonstrated experience designing, deploying, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems in AWS using services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container ecosystems, including Docker or OCI images, deployments, services, ingress, configuration, and troubleshooting • Experience building CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Github Actions, or AWS CodePipeline, including automated validation and promotion across environments • Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or comparable tooling • Working knowledge of AWS networking, including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, network access controls, load balancing, and private connectivity patterns • Experience implementing cloud security controls for identity and access management, encryption, secrets, logging, monitoring, and auditability in a restricted or compliance-oriented environment • Ability to diagnose distributed-system failures using logs, metrics, traces, and other operational signals • Ability to work independently while collaborating across multidisciplinary teams and customer organizations • Must be a U.S. Citizen per contract requirements • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Clearance in accordance with contract requirements • Experience designing or supporting data integration workflows and services that exchange JSON, XML, or other structured formats • Experience with AWS services such as EKS, ECR, API Gateway, Step Functions, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, Secrets Manager, KMS, Kafka or MSK, and Systems Manager • Familiarity with GitOps, policy as code, automated security scanning, software supply-chain controls, and immutable or repeatable deployment practices • Experience supporting platform operations in environments with segmented networks, strict access controls, limited connectivity, or formal change-management processes • Ability to translate mission or operational needs into technical designs, implementation plans, and measurable acceptance criteria • C3.ai experience receives extra consideration • Active Public Trust Clearance preferred • Candidates local to the Washington, DC metro area preferred • AWS certification, such as Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or Security Specialty, preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans • Flexible Spending Account • 4% 401K Match (immediate vesting) • Paid Time Off • Tuition reimbursement, certification programs, and professional development • Flexible work schedule • On-site gym and childcare option