- Location
- Fort Belvoir, MD
- Department
- Engineering
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Clearance
- Required
- Source
- Paylocity
Description
Description
We are seeking a skilled Cloud Engineer to implement, manage, maintain, and optimize cloud infrastructure supporting Army enterprise systems and mission operations.
The selected candidate will be responsible for cloud infrastructure deployment, legacy system migrations, infrastructure automation, virtual server administration, performance monitoring, and disaster recovery capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Build, deploy, configure, and maintain cloud infrastructure within approved Army environments.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles to automate and standardize infrastructure deployments.
- Support orchestration, automated provisioning, configuration management, and cloud resource optimization.
- Execute migrations of existing applications, databases, and workloads from on-premises systems into designated cloud environments.
- Assess system dependencies and prepare migration plans.
- Perform data transfers, post-migration testing, and application validation.
- Administer cloud-hosted virtual servers, including operating system updates, patching, and configuration changes.
- Monitor resource utilization, infrastructure performance, system health, and security advisories.
- Investigate performance bottlenecks and resolve technical issues.
- Maintain backup schedules, recovery procedures, and data protection mechanisms.
- Support high availability and continuity of operations.
- Collaborate with architects, cybersecurity personnel, application teams, and government stakeholders.
Requirements
- Approximately 5+ years of experience in systems engineering, cloud administration, or cloud infrastructure engineering.
- Hands-on experience deploying and supporting AWS, Microsoft Azure, or equivalent enterprise cloud platforms.
- Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
- Knowledge of Windows Server and/or Linux administration.
- Experience with virtual machines, cloud networking, storage, and infrastructure monitoring.
- Familiarity with cloud migration procedures, backup systems, and disaster recovery.
- Ability to troubleshoot cloud infrastructure and service interruptions.
- Understanding of federal cybersecurity and change management requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate, Azure Administrator Associate, or comparable certification.
- Experience supporting Army cloud platforms or federal cloud modernization projects.
- Experience with Python, PowerShell, Bash, Docker, or Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of DevSecOps and continuous deployment environments.
- Experience supporting regulated or RMF-governed systems.
Security: T-3 required ; clearance status and onboarding requirements to be verified.