Organization: U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – U.S. Coast Guard (USCG)
Work Type: Hybrid
Location: Washington, DC
Clearance: Active Secret Clearance
Salary: $100,000-$145,000
Summary
We are seeking 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.
Key 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)
