Senior Cloud / System Engineering Lead

Salary Range: 160000 to 190000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

Key Tasks & Responsibilities

Lead engineering support for cloud operations, enterprise systems, and hybrid-cloud services, and architect secure, high-availability, fault-tolerant cloud solutions aligned with USMEPCOM mission requirements.
Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, and secure connectivity among cloud, on-premises, DISA-hosted, continuity, and remote environments.
Engineer cloud DNS services, elastic load balancers, API gateways and integrations, and digital certificates, including renewal and troubleshooting.
Monitor cloud availability, performance, capacity, cost, and operational risk, and resolve cloud, network, API, DNS, certificate, compute, and storage issues.
Provide senior technical support during outages, coordinating diagnosis, mitigation, restoration, and validation with the Outage Response Team and supporting teams, and provide root-cause input.
Lead preparation and execution of installations, upgrades, migrations, component refreshes, and deployments, including implementation, test, and rollback plans.
Ensure cloud and system components are recorded in asset, configuration, and lifecycle repositories, and support refresh, disposition, and inventory validation.
Develop automation and Infrastructure as Code for provisioning, configuration, deployment, and monitoring using Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, or equivalent tools.
Integrate cloud capabilities with VMware, software-defined data-center, COOP, and on-premises environments, and design backup, disaster-recovery, and continuity capabilities.
Evaluate requirements, estimate costs, and prepare concepts of operations, architecture documents, engineering designs, and service-design packages.
Support implementation of DISA STIGs, DoD security controls, IAVAs, CND Directives, and RMF requirements, and coordinate escalation with AWS, DISA, and vendors.
Maintain architecture diagrams, configurations, certificate and API records, and SOPs, and mentor cloud engineers, systems engineers, and administrators.

Education & Experience

Required:

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

Minimum of eight (8) years of relevant cloud engineering, systems engineering, systems architecture, infrastructure engineering, or enterprise IT experience.

Preferred:

Experience leading cloud or systems-engineering activities in a federal or DoD environment, including AWS GovCloud or other Government-authorized clouds.

Advanced experience with Amazon VPC, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, API Gateway, AWS Certificate Manager, and AWS monitoring and security services.

Experience planning cloud migrations, infrastructure refreshes, and modernization, and developing resilient hybrid architectures.

Experience with Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Python, PowerShell, or Bash, and VMware vSphere, vSAN, NSX, SRM, or VMware Cloud Foundation.

Knowledge of DISA STIGs, DoD RMF, NIST controls, IAVA requirements, CND Directives, and ATO support.

Strong technical leadership, architecture, vendor-management, and stakeholder-communication skills.

Certifications

Required: Current AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer certification.
Preferred: AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Advanced Networking, Security, or DevOps Engineer; Microsoft Azure Administrator; VMware certification; ITIL Foundation; or equivalent credentials.

Security Clearance

• Active Secret clearance or higher is required.

Other (Travel, Work Environment, DoD 8570 Requirements, Administrative Notes, etc.)

Work Environment / Travel:

Remote position; Chicago, IL–area candidates preferred.

After-hours availability may be required during outages, maintenance windows, deployments, migrations, and infrastructure-refresh activities.

Administrative Notes:

Period of Performance: March 1, 2027 – February 28, 2033

Contract Start Date: March 1, 2027

Note: By applying to this position, the candidate acknowledges and consents to having their resume included in an active competitive Government contract bid.