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Cloud Engineer SME

Suitland-Silver Hill, Maryland, United States💼 Full-time🗓 2026-01-23 → 2026-09-25

Core

Senior technical lead responsible for designing, building, and operationalizing secure, scalable AWS-based environments to support the modernization of complex, interdependent legacy systems.

Role type

Senior IC Cloud Engineer (AWS & Python)

Builds

Cloud-native environments, serverless functions, orchestration utilities, and automated deployment pipelines for legacy system modernization.

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure & Legacy System Modernization

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

AWS engineering, Python development, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/CloudFormation), CI/CD pipeline design, legacy system analysis, migration planning (7 Rs framework), security architecture, observability implementation.

Preferred skills

SAS-to-Python modernization experience, data-intensive system support, AWS Solutions Architect certification, regulated environment experience.

Technologies

AWS (Lambda, ECS/EKS/Fargate, Glue, Aurora/PostgreSQL, S3, Batch), Terraform, CloudFormation, Python, CI/CD tools.

Responsibilities

Analyze existing application architectures and infrastructure dependencies; Design and implement AWS cloud environments aligned to enterprise constraints; Develop and maintain Python-based cloud components including serverless functions and automation tooling; Implement CI/CD pipelines with automated builds, testing, and security scanning; Establish monitoring, logging, and alerting standards for operational readiness.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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