Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

Overview

DecisionPoint seeks a Lead Cloud Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain the IL5 cloud platform foundation supporting a large federal and DoD-aligned mission environment. This senior technical leadership role owns the creation and sustainment of cloud landing zones, shared services, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) templates, deployment patterns, and enterprise cloud environments that serve as the backbone for all application teams. 

The Lead Cloud Platform Engineer ensures cloud infrastructure is secure, reliable, scalable, and aligned with IL5, RMF, and Zero Trust cloud requirements, while enabling efficient, repeatable deployments for development, test, staging, and production environments. 

This position is fully remote. 

Duties & Responsibilities

The Lead Cloud Platform Engineer will: 

• Design, build, and maintain IL5-compliant cloud landing zones and enterprise cloud environments. 

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) templates using Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent. 

• Manage shared cloud services including networking, IAM, encryption, monitoring, logging, and DevSecOps integrations. 

• Establish reusable deployment patterns used by all application development teams. 

• Engineer secure VPC designs, cross-account architecture, segmentation, and network policy enforcement. 

• Ensure compliance with IL5 requirements, RMF controls, Zero Trust principles, and DoD cloud security standards. 

• Oversee platform performance, reliability, and scalability, implementing improvements as required. 

• Support DevSecOps pipelines with cloud-ready configurations and automated deployment integration. 

• Troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructure issues across networking, compute, storage, and identity layers. 

• Optimize platform resource utilization, cost models, and scaling strategies. 

• Produce architecture diagrams, IaC documentation, platform standards, and operational best practices. 

• Mentor cloud engineers and support cross-team collaboration on cloud modernization and engineering efforts. 

Qualifications

Clearance Requirement 

Must hold an active Top Secret clearance, supported by a Tier 5 background investigation. 

 

Education (Required) 

Bachelor’s degree in Cloud Computing, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. 

 

Experience (Required) 

• Minimum 10 years of experience designing and engineering cloud infrastructure solutions. 

• Experience building and maintaining IL5 or other secure federal cloud environments. 

• Extensive experience developing Infrastructure-as-Code templates and reusable deployment patterns. 

• Experience leading cloud modernization or platform engineering initiatives for enterprise systems. 

 

Technical Knowledge (Required) 

• Deep expertise with AWS GovCloud services and IL5 cloud architecture patterns. 

• Strong proficiency with Terraform, CloudFormation, or other IaC tools. 

• Knowledge of secure networking, VPC architecture, segmentation, and cross-account access. 

• Strong understanding of RMF, STIGs, Zero Trust cloud requirements, and federal security controls. 

• Experience with monitoring, observability, and cloud logging platforms. 

Technical Knowledge (Preferred) 

• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS), container runtimes, or modern application hosting patterns. 

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps tooling. 

• Experience integrating cloud platforms with SIEM and enterprise monitoring systems. 

 

Certifications 

Required: 

• CompTIA Security+ 

Preferred: 

• AWS Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional 

• ITIL v4 Foundation 

• Advanced cloud or cybersecurity certifications 

 

Skills 

• Strong leadership and architectural decision-making ability. 

• Excellent communication skills for collaboration across engineering, cybersecurity, and product teams. 

• High attention to detail and strong documentation discipline. 

• Ability to troubleshoot complex, multi-layer cloud issues in secure environments. 

• Ability to design and maintain reusable, scalable, and secure cloud platform components. 

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

• EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
• Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.
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