CR Cloud Platform Engineer Credence · McLean · Platform & Infrastructure –10d ago

At Credence, we support our clients’ mission-critical needs, powered by technology. We provide cutting-edge solutions, including AI/ML, enterprise modernization, and advanced intelligence capabilities, to the largest defense and health federal organizations. Through partnership and trust, we increase mission success for war-fighters and secure our nation for a better future.

We are privately held, are repeatedly recognized as a top place to work, and have been on the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies list for the last 12 years. We practice servant leadership and believe that by focusing on the success of our clients, team members, and partners, we all achieve greater success.

Credence is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to support secure AWS hosting environments for Department of War customers.

This is a hands-on engineering role that supports the broader cloud hosting lifecycle. The position includes AWS infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, container platforms, automation, technical solutioning, troubleshooting, monitoring, security, and operational support.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience designing, implementing, automating, and troubleshooting AWS-based environments. Candidates should be comfortable working across infrastructure, deployments, container platforms, security controls, and customer requirements.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Design, implement, operate, and improve secure AWS hosting solutions supporting development, test, and production environments.
• Collaborate with Cloud Engineers, Solutions Architects, cybersecurity professionals, application teams, and customer stakeholders to develop and implement technical solutions.
• Translate technical and customer requirements into practical cloud infrastructure, deployment, and hosting solutions.
• Build, maintain, and improve reusable Infrastructure as Code patterns using Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, or similar technologies.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting automated build, test, security scanning, deployment, and release workflows.
• Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot containerized workloads using Docker, Amazon ECS/Fargate, and Amazon EKS/Kubernetes.
• Support container platforms, including workload deployment, configuration, networking, storage, scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Develop scripts, tools, and automation using Python, Shell, Power Shell, or similar technologies to reduce manual effort and improve consistency.
• Convert recurring operational issues into reusable automation, platform capabilities, or standardized deployment patterns.
• Support AWS-hosted environments as needed, including troubleshooting, incident response, planned maintenance, technical escalations, and production support.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, operating system, networking, permissions, database, pipeline, container, and deployment issues.
• Support cloud platform services related to monitoring, logging, access control, configuration management, patching, backup, and security.
• Work with cybersecurity and compliance teams to ensure infrastructure and automation align with customer, federal, and organizational requirements.
• Research and recommend tools, technologies, and engineering practices that improve platform reliability, automation, security, and developer experience.
• Create and maintain technical designs, implementation plans, deployment procedures, runbooks, reusable patterns, and operational documentation.
• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule, typically approximately one week every four months.

Required Qualifications

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
• CompTIA Security+ certification, or the ability to obtain it within the first 60 days.
• AWS certification, or the ability to obtain one within the first 90 days.
• At least 3 years of progressively responsible experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, Dev Ops, infrastructure automation, systems engineering, or a related technical field.
• Hands-on experience designing, deploying, supporting, and troubleshooting AWS environments.
• Experience with core AWS services such as EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, security groups, RDS, EFS, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, and AWS Systems Manager.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, or another Infrastructure as Code technology.
• Experience…