Cloud DevOps Engineer
Listed on 2026-09-04
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IT/Tech
AWS, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Cybersecurity
Everforth ECS is seeking a Cloud Dev Ops Engineer to work in our Arlington, VA office / remote. We're looking for an engineer with strong hands-on experience across Linux, Windows, and cloud-native environments, paired with a deep automation mindset. You've built and maintained CI/CD pipelines, written IaC at scale, and worked in compliance-driven environments where NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, and DISA STIGs aren't foreign concepts.
They're part of your normal workflow. You operate independently, you communicate well across technical and non-technical stakeholders, and you take ownership of your work from design through deployment. Experience supporting federal customers in air-gapped environments is a meaningful differentiator for this role.
- Design and deploy secure cloud infrastructure on AWS using Terraform, Ansible, and/or Cloud Formation
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git Lab CI/CD) that bake security in from the start
- Write automation in Ansible coupled with Infrastructure defined by Terraform code to cut down on manual work and keep deployments consistent
- Deploy and troubleshoot cloud-native applications across EC2, VPC, EKS, S3, RDS, AWS Bedrock, and related AWS services
- Implement and maintain security controls including IAM, encryption, network security, SELinux, and kernel hardening
- Apply DISA STIGs and ensure compliance with NIST 800-53 and FedRAMP requirements
- Support containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes/EKS
- Collaborate with development and security teams to push Dev Sec Ops practices forward
- Keep documentation current so the next person isn’t starting from scratch
Salary: $130,000 - $160,000
General Description of Benefits- Must have US citizenship.
- Ability to pass a Public Trust investigation.
- Bachelor's degree in a related field.
- Minimum 3 years of general work experience.
- AWS certification (Solutions Architect, Dev Ops Engineer)
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical field.
- We will consider candidates without a degree who bring 4 or more years of directly relevant experience or equivalent military training.
- 3+ years in Linux and/or Windows system and network administration (DNS, VPN, firewalls).
- 3+ years with IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible.
- 3+ years in Linux and/or Windows system and network administration (DNS, VPN, firewalls).
- 3+ years with Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms.
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