Cloud Engineer - Level IV

Department: SDI-PTS2

Location: Hamilton, NJ

Compensation: $125,000 - $186,000 / year

Augustine Consulting, Inc. is a Woman‑Owned Small Business professional services provider of engineering and technical services to the United States Government. We seek an experienced Cloud Engineer to serve as part of ACI’s Government Programs Team, which supports CPE Ground and the Nett Warrior system.

• Provide technical leadership across on‑premises, hybrid, and cloud infrastructures, including AWS and Azure.
• Serve as the subject‑matter expert for secure network architecture, firewall implementation, administrative access, traffic flow analysis, troubleshooting, and cloud connectivity.
• Design, implement, and sustain enterprise network architectures across on‑premises, hybrid, AWS, and Azure environments.
• Lead network engineering efforts through the full system lifecycle: planning, design, implementation, testing, deployment, accreditation, and sustainment.
• Act as the senior technical authority for routing, switching, network security, secure communications, firewall architecture, and cloud networking design.
• Engineer and maintain AWS and Azure cloud networking components, including VPCs, VNets, subnets, route tables, transit gateways, virtual WAN, Express Route, Direct Connect, VPN gateways, peering, private endpoints, security groups, NSGs, load balancers, DNS services, NAT gateways, and hybrid interconnections.
• Develop and enforce network standards, security baselines, firewall policies, segmentation strategies, access control requirements, and cloud network governance.
• Ensure compliance with DoW cybersecurity requirements, including RMF, NIST 800‑53, STIGs, CMMC, and Army 8140 requirements for privileged administrative access.
• Analyze, document, and optimize end‑to‑end traffic flows across enterprise, tactical, and cloud environments to ensure secure routing, performance, resiliency, and mission effectiveness.
• Provide technical oversight for Dev Sec Ops  and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) implementations supporting network automation and cloud network provisioning.
• Lead advanced troubleshooting and root‑cause analysis for complex network, firewall, routing, latency, packet loss, and connectivity issues across multi‑domain environments.
• Support Authority to Operate (ATO) activities, including documentation, testing, remediation, and security validation.

• Dynamic: contributes energy and enthusiasm to daily tasks and team interactions.
• Thorough: produces complete, polished products and persists with a mission‑focused mindset.
• Mature: respects others’ opinions, listens, shares, and collaborates independently or jointly.
• Forthright: speaks with conviction and argues respectfully based on understanding.
• Inquisitive: seeks deeper explanations of how systems work and connects the unconnected.
• Timely: arrives ready to think, prepared to complete assignments within reasonable time frames.
• Honest: knows what’s right, legal, and appropriate, acting accordingly.

• Due to the sensitive nature of this work, a Department of Defense (DoW) security clearance is required, and all applicants must provide proof of U.S. citizenship.
• Must currently possess or have the ability to obtain a DoW Secret security clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 10 years of experience, or
• Master’s degree in a related field and five years of experience.
• Extensive experience in enterprise network engineering, routing, switching, firewalls, and network security.
• Strong knowledge of DoW cybersecurity frameworks, including RMF, NIST 800‑53, STIGs, and Zero Trust concepts.
• Experience with AWS and Azure cloud networking in hybrid enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of high‑level cloud networking technologies, including VPC/VNet design, cloud routing, hybrid connectivity, private access, cloud‑native security controls, DNS, load balancing, segmentation, and multi‑region connectivity.
• Meet DoW 8140 requirements related to privileged access and administrator roles, demonstrating understanding as they apply to privileged administrative access and cybersecurity workforce compliance.
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