Cloud Engineer

Company: Gridiron IT Solutions
Location: Washington
Posted on: May 14, 2025

Job Description:

Cloud Engineer

The following information aims to provide potential candidates with a better understanding of the requirements for this role.

Job Description: GridIron IT is seeking a Cloud Engineer with an Active Top Secret (SCI Eligible) Clearance. You will support the client's mission to accelerate discovery and delivery of identity and network-based intelligence to counter national security threat actors by applying experience relevant in an intelligence domain. The appropriate candidate is required to have the following skills.

Job Duties:

Provide technical expertise in range of cloud technologies to include cloud development, cloud architecture, cloud system engineering, cloud security, DevSecOps engineering and operations and Agile development methodologies

Leads team on projects of various layers of complexity and creates solution involving or affecting financial, scheduling, methodology, tools and prepares long and short-range plans for application selection, system development, processes, procedures and producing methods

Acts as a liaison to take the project requirements from the customer and then translate that to a technical requirement

Manage the project stakeholders and works with them as a technical point of contact for everything related to cloud engineering

Plan, execute and close projects that meet or exceed customer expectation

Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs

Implementing various development, testing, automation tools and IT Infrastructure

Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities

Setting up the tools and the required infrastructure

Defining and setting development, test, release, update and support the DevSecOps process

Have a technical skill to review, verify and validate the software code developed in the project

Troubleshooting the techniques and fixing the code bugs

Monitoring the process during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage

Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible

Identifying and deploying security measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management

Incident management and root cause analysis

Coordination and communication with team and with customers both external and internal

Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools

Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and customer






















Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree + 4 years of professional experience (Master's to sub for YOE)

Experience working on Linux/Windows based infrastructure

Understanding of Python, Java, JavaScript and similar technologies

Configuration and managing database such as MySQL, Mongo and other relational as well NoSQL database

Excellent in troubleshooting

Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services

Knowledge and experience with working with one of the CI/CD tools like Gitlab or Jenkins

Advanced Experience working with one of the Cloud Service Providers Aws, Azure or GCP

Awareness of critical concepts in DevSecOps and Agile principles












Preferred Qualifications:

CompTIA Security +

AWS Certified Developer Associate or Solution Architect, Similar certification in Azure or GCP preferred

Certification in one of the Ci/CD tools preferrable Gitlab or Jenkins or attended courses in those

ITIL Certification a plus







Related Skills:

AWS Cloud Architecture

AWS Public Cloud

Azure Cloud Services

Cloud Engineering

Enterprise Cloud








Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
Compensation and Benefits:
Salary Range: $105,000-130,000 (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.)
Benefits: Gridiron offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), disability & ADD insurance, life and pet insurance to eligible employees. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 30 hours per week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Gridiron's benefits programs.
Gridiron IT Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status or disability status.
Gridiron IT is a Women Owned Small Business (WOSB) headquartered in the Washington, D.C. area that supports our clients' missions throughout the United States. Gridiron IT specializes in providing comprehensive IT services tailored to meet the needs of federal agencies. Our capabilities include IT Infrastructure & Cloud Services, Cyber Security, Software Integration & Development, Data Solution & AI, and Enterprise Applications. These capabilities are backed by Gridiron IT's experienced workforce and our commitment to ensuring we meet and exceed our clients' expectations.

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