Cloud Platform Developer; Cybersecurity Technical Staff

What You Will Do

This position will be filled at the Cybersecurity Technical Staff 3 level, depending on the skills of the selected candidate.

The Innovative Customer Experience (ICE) Division is looking for a dynamic Cloud Platform developer who can help the Cloud Platform Team design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure, and efficient applications and services leveraging cloud technologies. You'll leverage your expertise in cloud platforms, infrastructure as code, and modern software development practices to drive the future of cloud-based technologies.

ICE division consists of more than 350 talented Solution Architects, Computer Systems Professionals, and Computer System Technician employees who provide the varied Laboratory organizations with Information Technology experts who design, build, and support their mission-driven technical needs, on the unclassified and classified networks through several different service touchpoints. In addition, they optimize the use of information technology, ensure seamless delivery and operation of IT services by monitoring system performance, applying configuration management practices, creating processes and standards for selection and implementation.

We are seeking an experienced Cloud Platform Developer with advanced expertise in designing, developing, and deploying cloud-native applications and services across modern cloud platforms. The ideal candidate will possess deep knowledge of distributed systems architecture, containerization, microservices, and serverless computing, combined with strong programming skills in languages such as Python, Java, and Go. Also, we are looking for someone with infrastructure as code experience such as Terraform, Terragrunt, Cloud Formation, and Azure Bicep.

This individual should demonstrate proven ability to create scalable, resilient, and secure software solutions using secure infrastructure-as-code principles, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native development patterns.

In this role you will design, build, and refine multi-cloud landing zones across Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Amazon Web Services (AWS), implementing policy-as-code guardrails that enforce security, compliance, and governance uniformly across all environments. You will develop and maintain automation pipelines to provision and manage infrastructure consistently, while enhancing core developer-experience workflows to ensure seamless integration with CI/CD, monitoring, and observability tools.

The ideal candidate is proficient with APIs, infrastructure-as-code automation, event-driven architectures, and modern development frameworks, consistently applying sound technical judgment and recognizing when to elevate complex architectural decisions for broader review. The successful candidate will provide technical mentorship, guidance, and knowledge transfer to junior cloud infrastructure team members, fostering professional development and promoting best practices across the organization. This role requires the ability to proactively research, evaluate, and assess emerging cloud technologies, tools, and services to identify opportunities for improvement, and to propose and champion innovative, forward-thinking solutions to complex cloud infrastructure challenges that align with organizational objectives and industry standards.

• Support and maintain Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Performs design, implementation, deployment, and optimization of complex cloud infrastructure solutions, services, and architectures across multi-cloud and hybrid environments
• Evaluates new cloud technologies, infrastructure-as-code tools, and platform services; researches emerging cloud patterns and architectural approaches, and proposes innovative solutions to cloud infrastructure challenges
• Independently leads work on moderately complex cloud infrastructure initiatives, providing guidance and direction as appropriate to other infrastructure personnel
• Identifies, promotes, and develops new technical capabilities and cloud services…