Cloud Engineer

Base pay range

$/yr - $/yr

Location:
Herndon, VA or Springfield, VA

Remote:
No

Gridiron IT is seeking a Cloud Engineer to support a federal program in Springfield or Herndon, VA.

• Design and implement enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure using AWS CDK and Infrastructure as Code principles
• Architect and develop robust microservices architectures with focus on scalability, performance, and maintainability
• Build and optimize data engineering pipelines for large-scale data processing and analytics workloads
• Implement advanced cloud-native solutions leveraging serverless architectures and event-driven patterns
• Drive technical excellence through code reviews, architectural decisions, and engineering best practices
• Solve complex technical challenges across distributed systems and provide innovative solutions to business problems

Required Skills:

• TS/SCI with CI Poly required with current Customer eligibility and SBU/SECNet/COE accounts
• Must be willing to work in SCIF daily or as needed
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with cloud-first development approach
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS CDK for Infrastructure as Code
• 3+ years building complex, reusable CDK constructs and stacks
• 3+ years implementing multi-environment deployment strategies using CDK
• 5+ years of advanced Python development experience
• Expertise in frameworks like FastAPI, Flask, or Django for API development
• Strong experience with data processing libraries (Pandas, Num Py, Apache Spark)
• Proficiency in async programming and performance optimization
• 3+ years with Node.js backend development and npm ecosystem
• 3+ years with frontend frameworks (React, Vue.js, or Angular)
• Experience with modern build tools and package managers
• 4+ years of microservices architecture design and implementation
• Event-driven architecture patterns and message queuing systems
• API design, versioning, and service mesh technologies
• 4+ years of data engineering experience
• Experience with data lakes, data warehousing, and analytics platforms
• Real-time data processing and streaming architectures
• 3+ years with AWS cloud-native services
• Advanced knowledge of Lambda, API Gateway, Event Bridge, SQS, SNS
• Experience with data services: RDS, Dynamo
  
  DB, Redshift, S3, Athena
• Container orchestration with ECS, Fargate, or EKS
• Strong problem-solving abilities with proven track record of resolving complex technical challenges

Preferred Qualifications (bulleted list)

• 4+ years of experience with Authority to Operate (ATO) processes in government environments
• Implementation of NIST 800-53 controls and FedRAMP compliance requirements
• Security automation and continuous compliance monitoring
• 3+ years of experience with advanced data analytics and machine learning platforms
• AWS Sage Maker, Databricks, or similar ML/AI platforms
• Model deployment and MLOps pipeline development
• Performance tuning and optimization for RDS, Dynamo
  
  DB, MongoDB
• Data modeling for both relational and No
  
  SQL databases
• Dev Sec Ops  and security automation experience
• Integration of security scanning tools (Sonar Qube, Snyk, Checkmarx)
• Secrets management and secure coding practices
• System design and architecture experience
• Designing for high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity
• Performance optimization and cost management strategies
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools
• Cloud Watch, Data Dog, New Relic, or Prometheus/Grafana stacks
• Distributed tracing and application performance monitoring
• Leadership experience in technical environments
• Leading cross-functional teams and technical initiatives
• Experience with agile methodologies and project delivery
• Additional programming language proficiency (Go, Java, C#)
• Open source contribution history and active participation in technical communities

Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Salary Range: $180,000-$250,000 (Compensation is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, work experience, skills, education, certifications, seniority, and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.)

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