Cloud Engineer (onsite

Cloud Engineer

Washington, DC – 100% Onsite

Per Federal contract U.S. Citizenship or Green Card is Required

Must be able to pass enhanced background screen (criminal, financial, drug) for Public Trust clearance

W-2 or C2C

Final date to receive applications: 8/28/2026 at 12pm

The Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) empowers the Board to confidently use trusted, standardized, and well governed data to drive insight and innovation.

The Cloud Engineer is a hands-on technical resource responsible for supporting the implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of the Enterprise Data Platform (EDP).

EDP is hosted on AWS Gov Cloud and provides secure, scalable cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise data, analytics, and AI/ML workloads.

This role will work closely with senior platform engineers, cloud infrastructure, security, and application teams to provision and maintain cloud infrastructure, automate repeatable platform operations, monitor platform health, troubleshoot issues, and support secure delivery of EDP capabilities. The position is intended for a candidate with foundational cloud engineering skills who demonstrates strong technical aptitude, problem-solving ability, and a willingness to learn and expand their cloud engineering expertise on the job.

• Working knowledge of core AWS services and concepts, including VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, EKS, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, and AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store.
• Foundational understanding of AWS networking concepts, including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, and connectivity between cloud resources.
• Familiarity with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), including roles, policies, permissions, and least-privilege access concepts.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts and experience or familiarity with AWS Cloud Formation.
• Experience using source/version control systems such as Git Lab, Git Hub, or Bitbucket, with Git Lab preferred.
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and tooling, including automated build, test, deployment, and environment promotion processes.
• Familiarity with cloud monitoring and logging concepts using services such as Cloud Watch and Cloud Trail.
• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues, analyze logs and system behavior, and work collaboratively with other engineering teams to resolve problems.
• Ability to learn new cloud technologies, tools, and engineering practices and apply them under guidance from senior engineers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to document technical configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting steps.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.

• Basic understanding of containerization and container orchestration concepts; familiarity with Amazon EKS/Kubernetes is preferred.
• Basic understanding of cloud security practices, including secrets/configuration management, secure access, logging, and encryption.
• Hands-on experience provisioning AWS infrastructure using Cloud Formation or another Infrastructure as Code technology.
• Experience developing or maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably using Git Lab CI/CD.
• Familiarity with Terraform or other infrastructure automation frameworks.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes concepts and Amazon EKS administration.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Professional

• Provision, configure, and maintain AWS infrastructure components supporting EDP environments, including networking, compute, storage, identity and access management, and logging/monitoring services.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and other approved automation tools to enable repeatable and consistent infrastructure deployments.
• Support CI/CD pipelines used to deploy infrastructure and platform configurations across development, testing, and production environments.
• Maintain source-controlled infrastructure code and configuration using Git-based repositories, preferably Git Lab.
• Assist with configuration and administration of AWS networking components including VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups, and related connectivity.
• Support cloud infrastructure associated with containerized workloads running on Amazon EKS, including basic troubleshooting and operational support.
• Configure and maintain platform monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and health checks using AWS monitoring and logging capabilities.
• Monitor and analyze Cloud Watch logs, metrics, and alarms and Cloud Trail events to identify operational or security issues.
• Assist with implementing standardized secure cloud configurations aligned with organizational security requirements and engineering standards.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment, connectivity, permissions, and platform issues in coordination with senior engineers and other technical teams.
• Assist with cloud infrastructure upgrades,…