Senior Cloud Engineer (GovCloud / FedRAMP)

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As a Senior Cloud Engineer at Aikido, you’ll build and operate the cloud systems behind our FedRAMP environment. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who writes application and infrastructure code, understands how production cloud platforms work, and is comfortable operating what they build.

You’ll work across the boundary between software and infrastructure: adapting Aikido’s platform for AWS GovCloud, building automation and services, improving reliability, and troubleshooting real product issues. You’ll collaborate with our broader engineering team while taking practical ownership of the systems that support our federal customers.

We’re looking for a strong general-purpose engineer with roughly 5-7 years of experience, or hands-on ability. You may have come up through software engineering, cloud engineering, or DevOps. What matters most is that you can write code, understand cloud infrastructure, and get things done in production.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and operate services and infrastructure for Aikido’s U.S. public sector cloud environment.

• Write production-quality code in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, or similar languages.

• Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or comparable tools.

• Work with AWS services and cloud-native systems, with AWS GovCloud experience especially useful.

• Understand and improve multi-tenant SaaS systems, including their architecture, security, reliability, and operational needs.

• Adapt and deliver platform capabilities in a regulated cloud environment, working with the broader Aikido engineering team.

• Debug issues across application code, infrastructure, deployments, and integrations using logs, metrics, traces, and cloud tooling.

• Use command-line and developer tools effectively, including AWS CLI, Git, CI/CD systems, and AI-assisted coding tools such as Cursor.

• Explore and apply agentic systems and automation to improve cloud engineering and operations.

• Participate in production operations, incident response, deployments, and ongoing service improvement.

• Document systems and operational procedures so the team can support them reliably.