Cloud Engineer

Purpose and Impact

This team is focused on providing cloud-based geolocation solutions in near‑real‑time directly to decision makers and warfighters around the world. They define requirements and determine solutions to enhance capabilities and integrate applications and data formats. With this team, you’ll have the opportunity to exercise your skills in all facets of the systems engineering life cycle including requirements gathering, system design, testing, artifact development, and deployment in cloud environments.

Monday‑Friday, 8 hours a day, 5 days per week.

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure (e.g., modernization, migration, roadmaps) ensuring systems follow best practices and governance.
• Build reusable modules (Helm Charts, Terraform, etc.) and enforce development standards for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Continuously monitor infrastructure health and performance using logging and alerting; identify issues and implement solutions for improved efficiency.
• Provide strategies for failure/recovery (backup, high availability), cost optimization (tagging, budgets, rightsizing, autoscaling) and benefit analysis of cloud services.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives to enhance system capabilities and efficiency.
• Contribute to deliverables (architectures, runbooks, operational procedures) and performance metrics; transfer knowledge to internal teams.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and recommend enhancements to current systems.

• Proven progressive responsibility and experience with provisioning, configuring, and managing cloud infrastructure and services (compute, storage, networking, IAM).
• Designing and implementing secure, scalable cloud architectures.
• Developing and maintaining IaC using tools such as Terraform, Cloud Formation, AWS CDK, etc.
• Knowledge of containers and platform workloads (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS/AKS/GKE).
• Configuring monitoring, logging, and alerting (Cloud Watch, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/Open Search) and responding to incidents.
• Implementing and testing backup, disaster recovery, and high‑availability strategies.
• Managing secrets and key management with tools such as KMS/Key Vault/Secret Manager, certificates, and rotation policies.
• Optimizing cloud cost and performance (tagging, budgets, rightsizing, autoscaling) and producing usage/cost reports.
• Troubleshooting cloud infrastructure issues across networking (DNS, routing, VPN), security, and service limits.
• Documenting architectures, runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Experience with Linux OS.

TS/SCI with polygraph.

Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university. Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

Twenty (20) years’ experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity. Demonstrated experience in planning and leading Systems Engineering efforts.

Compensation: $256,000 – $300,000. The compensation range is a good‑faith estimate of what the company intends to offer for this role. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as job responsibilities, education, experience, skills, internal equity, market data, applicable collective bargaining agreements, and relevant laws.

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid time off and holidays
• Retirement benefits (including 401(k) matching)
• Educational reimbursement
• Parental leave
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Tax‑saving options
• Disability and life insurance
• Pet insurance

Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), age, ancestry, United States military or veteran status, color, religion, creed, marital or domestic partner status, medical condition, genetic information, national origin, citizenship status, low‑income status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.

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We comply with the conditions of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, the McNamara‑O'Hara Service Contract Act, and other applicable agreements regarding benefits.

Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case‑by‑case basis.