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Cloud Platform Engineer

McLean, Virginia, United States💼 Full-time💰 $100,000–$100,000🗓 2026-09-24 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design, implement, and operate secure AWS hosting environments for Department of War customers, covering infrastructure, CI/CD, and container platforms.

Role type

Senior IC Cloud Platform Engineer

Builds

Secure AWS hosting solutions for development, test, and production environments

Domain

Defense / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure

Required skills

AWS environment design and troubleshooting, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation), CI/CD pipeline development, container orchestration (ECS/Fargate/EKS/Kubernetes), automation scripting (Python/Shell/PowerShell), complex technical troubleshooting

Preferred skills

Terraform modules and reusable patterns, Kubernetes tools (Helm, ingress, autoscaling), federal compliance support (NIST/DoD), monitoring tools (Prometheus/Grafana), Linux/Windows administration, Active Directory/LDAP integration

Technologies

AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, RDS, EFS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Systems Manager), Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Docker, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, Python, Shell, PowerShell

Responsibilities

Design and implement secure AWS hosting solutions; build and maintain Infrastructure as Code patterns; develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines; deploy and troubleshoot containerized workloads; create automation scripts and tools; support incident response and production maintenance; research and recommend engineering practices; create technical documentation and runbooks

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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