Cloud Engineer

Description

SAIC is seeking Cloud Engineer to support SAIC’s Prime Program, Aretuza in Chantilly, VA.Aretuza is a SETA program, supporting the NRO’s Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED).

Job Duties to include:

• Provide Acquisition Support & SME as primary CPOC Lead to program manager(s) and manage development contracts
  - Cost/Schedule/Performance
• Develop, review, and refine RFPs, SOWs, SOOs, CLINs, ROMs, ECPs, and related acquisition artifacts.
• Support industry engagement, vendor coordination, and technical transition activities for new and ongoing acquisitions.
• Deliver technical COAs, spend‑plan inputs, and acquisition recommendations to government leadership.
• Manage daily Technical Exchange Meetings (TEMs) with contractors and advocate for government priorities during COTR tag‑ups, PMRs, and BMRs.
• Review and disposition RFCs, support assigned TIER actions, and coordinate RITM/CHG ticket activity.
• Support multi‑tenant integration efforts, ensuring alignment across mission stakeholders and resolving cross‑team technical issues.
• Provide Platform Cloud Operations expertise and maintain the TIER collection of future cloud‑environment requirements.
• Serve as ALT ISSE for ATO8/program office assets, ensuring continuous GPMO coverage.
• Participate in security review preparation and execution; ensure contractors and tenants adhere to security policies and procedures.
• Review, verify, and recommend updates to O&S procedures, deployments, and mission‑support workflows.
• Create and deliver cost, schedule, and technical briefings to government leadership.
• Conduct detailed technical analysis supporting acquisition decisions, cloud‑environment planning, and mission‑system integration.
• Facilitate issue resolution between ATO8 and partner teams, ensuring consistent communication and technical alignment.

Qualifications

Required

Education and Experience:

• Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience;
  Masters and seven (7) years or more experience ;
  PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience. Relevant experience to be substituted in lieu of degree.
• CompTIA Security+ CE; AWS Certified Developer/Solutions Architect
  - Associate/Professional; and AWS Security Specialty
• 7+ years of experience in IT and cloud development, supporting modern enterprise environments.
• 4+ years of hands‑on AWS engineering experience within regulated or government environments.
• Candidates must demonstrate proficiency with EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS/DynamoDB, VPC, and API Gateway.
• Experience building and managing cloud infrastructure using Cloud Formation or Terraform.
• experienced with Python, Java, and .NET.
• Capable of designing and supporting serverless and microservices‑based systems.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as Code Pipeline and Jenkins.
• Familiar with AWS data tools including Glue and Athena.
• Understand IAM, KMS, and Cloud Watch and have experience applying government security frameworks comparable to ISM/IRAP.
• Demonstrate strong Agile collaboration, clear communication and documentation abilities, and effective analytical problem‑solving