AWS/ AZURE Cloud Engineer

Job Description

AWS/ AZURE Cloud Engineer

100% ONSITE New Jersey Ave Washington DC 20590 (5 days per week)

Start Date- 1/19/2026

Per Federal contract U.S. Citizenship or Greencard Required

Must be able to pass enhanced background screen (criminal, financial, drug) for Public Trust clearance

W-2 ONLY $52.00/hr

As a Cloud engineer, you’ll use your experience to architect, build, and design solutions that integrate public Cloud services. You will incorporate techniques like Infrastructure as Code to ensure repeatable deployment of resources. You’ll provide expertise in the use of Cloud reference architectures and solutions to support software development in a DevOps environment. You should have excellent troubleshooting skills, stay current with industry trends, and should be a team player.

Top Qualifications:

1. 5 years experience deploying/configuring application workloads within Microsoft Azure Commercial Cloud or AWS Cloud

2. Demonstrated understanding of principals supporting infrastructure components including compute, network, and storage, with 7 years total hands-on experience in technology

3. Demonstrated understanding of principals configurating and supporting application workloads within the Azure or AWS Cloud

Job Role Specific Requirements:

Core responsibilities and duties; highlight day-to-day activities:

1. Creating/updating cloud environment configurations to establish/support application workloads, including

a. Azure Focused: Configuration of Subscriptions, Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, load balancers, App Services, Azure Batch, Virtual Machines, resource tagging, billing, policy implementation, and security controls

b. AWS Focused: Configuration of AWS Accounts, IAM Users and Roles, VPCs, subnets, load balancers, Network routes, Transit Gateway, Control Tower, Systems Manager, Config Manager, stack sets, WAF, CloudFront, and Route53

2. Understanding of shell scripting and executing commands via the command line

3. Designing and building out automation platforms utilizing Infrastructure as Code methodologies – preferred skills are CloudFormation and/or Terraform, scripting capabilities with PowerShell and Python

4. Supporting and completing requests for operational support to include communicating level of effort and status to cloud leadership team

5. Supporting data calls for resources provisioned within the cloud environment and reporting out status of resources.

6. Identifying and communicating opportunities for improving agency security posture within cloud environments

7. Collaborating with external development teams to understand cloud workload solution architecture within agency AWS/Azure environment

Preferred skills and qualifications:

1. Strong understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices across cloud service providers.

2. Experience assessing, customizing, troubleshooting, optimizing, and maintaining current and emerging technologies, platforms, and applications to help ensure greater security and efficiencies, covering network, compute and storage principals.

3. Experience with cloud orchestration tools and continuous delivery processes to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure for customers to consume

4. Demonstrated proficiency in automating processes with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Packer, PowerShell, or Python, including use of remote APIs

5. Experience working with containers and container orchestration systems and hardening practices.

6. AWS Solutions Architect Associate and/or Azure Administrator Associate certifications or higher

Note: Candidate must be a U.S. citizen or green card holder who has resided in the U.S. for at least 3 years and the ability to obtain a public trust