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Cloud Engineer

Remote Washington, DC Public Trust Senior Level Career (10+ yrs experience) Salary not specified

Cloud Engineer Organization: U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Work Type: Onsite/Hybrid Location: Washington, DC Clearance: Active Public Trust (minimum) required; Secret (or ability to obtain) preferred Company Description Big Impact Tech (BIT) is a Minority-Owned Small Business providing IT and business management consulting to federal and commercial clients. We deliver mission-focused solutions in data, cloud, cybersecurity, and program management.

Job Description

BIT seeks a mission-driven Cloud Engineer to design, build, secure, and sustain cloud platforms and mission applications across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and/or DoD/FedRAMP-authorized environments. You will partner with cybersecurity, application teams, and stakeholders to deliver resilient, compliant, and cost optimized cloud services that support maritime safety, security, and stewardship.

Responsibilities:

• Design secure, scalable landing zones, VNET/VPC architectures, and networking aligned to Zero Trust, and government policies.
• Implement infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep) and configuration management (Ansible, SSM, Desired State Configuration).
• Create reusable modules/pipelines (CI/CD) in GitHub/GitLab/Azure DevOps for repeatable provisioning and blue/green deployments.
• Engineer controls to meet FedRAMP, FISMA, and NIST SP 800 53 requirements.
• Stand up and manage container and serverless platforms (EKS/AKS, ECS, Lambda, Azure Functions) and PaaS services (databases).
• Implement observability (logging, metrics, tracing) using CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, or Synthetics.
• Contribute to cloud governance standards, landing zone patterns, and best practices catalogs.
• Partner with developers, cybersecurity, and mission owners to migrate/modernize systems (rehost/refactor/replatform).
• Provide support, root-cause analysis, and knowledge transfer to operations teams.
• Provide Tier I and Tier II Helpdesk Support to end users via phone, email, and ticketing systems.
• Support user account management (Active Directory, permissions, and group policies)

Qualifications:

• 37+ years of hands-on cloud engineering or SRE experience in AWS and/or Azure (federal or enterprise).
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong foundation in networking (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, routing, VPNs), Linux/Windows, containers (Docker, Kubernetes), and git. Experience implementing security controls aligned to NIST 800 53 and FedRAMP; familiarity with RMF/ATO processes.
• Scripting skills in Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Ability to create clear documentation, diagrams, and runbooks; strong stakeholder communication skills.
• U.S. Citizenship (required government roles) and ability to obtain/maintain required clearance.
• Data services expertise (RDS/SQL MI, Postgres, KMS/Key Vault, Secrets Manager) and event-driven patterns (Kafka/Event Hub).