Senior Cloud Software Engineer

Mission Impact

At MTSI, you'll build and enhance enterprise catalog and metadata services that power intelligence discovery across the Air Force and Intelligence Community. Your work will modernize how analysts access, curate, search, and share mission data, enabling rapid, secure, cloud native information flow across domains and security enclaves, directly strengthening decision advantage in contested environments.

• Architect and deliver scalable, cloud native microservices across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Lead containerization, Kubernetes deployment strategies, multicluster operations, and servicemesh integrations.
• Design enterprise CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, secure packaging, artifact governance, and multienclave deployments.
• Drive cloud security posture improvements (IAM, secrets management, network policies, compliance controls).
• Partner with product teams, SREs, cybersecurity, and mission stakeholders to align cloud solutions with systemofsystems architecture.
• Troubleshoot high complexity production issues across distributed systems, networking, and cloud infrastructure.
• Produce high quality architecture diagrams, operational runbooks, technical approaches, and decision rationale for leadership.
• Mentor junior and midlevel engineers; elevate team cloud practices and engineering standards.

• Excel at owning cloud architectures endtoend and enjoy guiding teams through complex technical challenges.
• Have deep experience with Kubernetes, distributed systems, and secure, scalable cloud design patterns.
• Thrive in missionfocused environments where reliability, automation, and security are central to success.
• Can balance handson engineering with architectural vision, technical leadership, and mentoring.
• Enjoy collaborating across multiple organizations and disciplines to deliver cloud solutions that actually get used in the field.

• Lead design and development of cloud native services, including microservices architectures, API interfaces, and distributed data flows.
• Manage full Kubernetes lifecycle-cluster architecture, networking, autoscaling, observability stacks, and cluster hardening.
• Define and maintain CI/CD architecture that supports multiple enclaves, automated quality gates, SBOM generation, and missionready release pipelines.
• Implement infrastructureascode solutions (Terraform, Helm, Kustomize) that ensure consistent, auditable, repeatable deployments.
• Integrate advanced telemetry, including distributed tracing, metrics pipelines, operational dashboards, and automated alerting.
• Ensure compliance with cloud security frameworks, zerotrust principles, and enclavespecific access controls.
• Lead technical planning, architecture reviews, risk analysis, and trade studies to shape longterm cloud roadmaps.
• Mentor engineers, guide code reviews, improve team processes, and evangelize best practices across cloud engineering and Dev Sec Ops .

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of professional cloud engineering experience, including handson work with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong proficiency with Kubernetes (deployments, networking, scaling, operators, observability).
• Deep experience with containerization (Docker) and microservice design patterns.
• Proficiency in a modern programming language (Python, C++ preferred).
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and secure release workflows.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, cloud networking, and API design.
• Ability to obtain and maintain any required security clearances.

• Experience architecting mission critical or highly regulated cloud systems (DoD, IC, aerospace, critical infrastructure, etc.).
• Expertise in Kubernetes multicluster management, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), or advanced cluster hardening.
• Proficiency with IaC (Terraform, Helm, Cloud Formation) and Git Ops workflows.
• Experience with event driven or streaming architectures (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub).
• Strong background in cloud security design: IAM, boundary protection, key management,…