Cloud Engineer Principal
Job in
Washington, District of Columbia, 20022, USA
Listed on 2026-07-18
Listing for:
SAIC
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-07-18
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Systems Engineer, AWS
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Location: Washington, DC, US
Date Posted:
Category: Information Technology
Subcategory: Cloud Comp Engr
Schedule: Full-Time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: No
Minimum Clearance Required: None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust
Potential for Remote Work: _SITE
Description
Job Summary
SAIC is looking to hire a Principal Cloud Engineer to support our government customer. This resource will be responsible for managing cloud environments, possessing extensive skills and knowledge in cloud service provider selection, implementation techniques, application data migration techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements.
In addition to the duties required of a Cloud Engineer, a Cloud Engineer SME will provides technical, managerial, and administrative direction for problem definition, analysis, requirements development and implementation for complex to extremely complex systems within cloud infrastructure.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications, Skills, Experience or Certifications:
- 12+ years experience in information technology WITH 8+ years of focused, HANDS-ON experience deploying/configuring workloads within EITHER AWS or Azure - preferred experience is Dev Ops focused
- Hands-on experience installing, configuring, upgrading Fin Ops tools like Kion in AWS environments.
- Experience in setting up Kion organizational units and account schemes, projects, linking Kion with Cloud Service Providers such as AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Google Cloud Provider (Google Cloud Platform)
- Hands-on expertise writing Cloud Formation Infrastructure as Code templates for infrastructure deployment.
- Hands-on experience with AWS Billing Conductor and Cost Explorer
- Proven track record of identifying AWS resource waste.
- Experience authoring Account, Subscriptions etc., Kion compliance scores and financial guardrails.
- Experience with Kion for tracking cost allocation for resources such as container, ALB, RDS
- Experience managing and scaling applications inside AWS ECS clusters.
- Proficient in configuring Application Load Balancers for high availability.
- Experience scaling, patching, and optimizing RDS instances.
- Experience participation in daily scrums, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally with Dev Ops and Cloud teams
- Good understanding of FedRAMP services and best practices for their consumption
- Experience managing AWS Public and Gov Cloud across regions
- Demonstrated understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices across cloud service providers
- Knowledge of Agile Project Management methodologies
- Experience documenting requirements, user stories, and use cases
- Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and team environment
- Professional Architect Certification within EITHER AWS or Azure
- Producing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or Configuration as Code (CaC), delivering solutions with a code first approach with sufficient comments and structure
- Collaborating with engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions
- Diagnosing and resolving complex performance, security, and/or technical challenges
- Supporting all tiers of applications deployed in the cloud, configuring network, cloud native services, infrastructure, and privileges for development teams
- Identifying opportunities for optimizing cloud consumption by the agency and providing strategic direction for addressing those opportunities
- Creating/updating cloud environment configurations within Kion to establish/support application workloads, including
- Azure Focused:
Configuration of Subscriptions, Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, load balancers, App Services, Azure Batch, Virtual Machines, resource tagging, billing, policy implementation, and security controls - AWS Focused:
Configuration of AWS Accounts, IAM Users and Roles, VPCs, subnets, load balancers, Network routes, Transit Gateway, Control Tower, Systems Manager, Config Manager, stack sets, WAF, Cloud Front, and Route
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- Azure Focused:
SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government.
Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .
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