Cloud Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 13, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 8, 2026.
Job Location: Springfield, VA
Compensation: $180,000 - $200,000
Eligibility/Clearance: Candidate must possess an active TS/SCI clearance
and be willing to obtain a CI Polygraph
Job Description:
HOW A CLOUD ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT
In this role, you'll join our Common Operations Release Environment
(CORE) team, providing high-quality, cost-effective cloud solutions to
our clients. Be part of a dynamic environment where your expertise in
cloud operations will drive significant enhancements in the efficiency
and effectiveness of our customers’ operations. As a Cloud Engineer on
our team, you will be responsible for distributed and managed services
automating the installation, configuration and maintenance of platform
services.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using
CI/CD tools to automate and optimize service deployments within
development, test, and production systems
- Integrate with enterprise authentication services
- Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling,
support new services, optimize for cost
efficiencies/authentication/search, etc.)
- Manage and aggregate server logs and monitor for security and system
related incidents
- Monitor and analyze system performance, such as server load and
resource usage
- Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain software
revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation along with
maintaining documentation and ensuring continuity of recurring tasks
- Enforce best practices for security and reliability, and drive
security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing
- Work with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements for operation
of systems
- Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and
validate completion
- Participant in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings
- On-call support will be required
Required Skills:
- AWS serverless infrastructure components
- Willing to learn cross-domain services available at NGA
- A working understanding of TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Bash
- Multi-platform integration (connecting processes and services
between AWS, GitLab, OpenShift, Nexus, Self Service)
- GitLab CI/CD pipelines, typically centered around deploying or
updating applications/services in OpenShift or AWS
- Strong understanding of DevSecOps and software/application
development processes
- Understanding of GitLab or other DevSecOps/Continuous Integration
tools
- Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components,
load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure
design
Desired Skills:
- Background as a system administrator
- Cross Domain engineering
- AWS Diode
- Security+ Certification
- Understanding of access management and security groups (i.e. IAM, S3
bucket, SSH, VPN, etc.)
- Ability to write and use unit and functional testing
- Experience using Jira and Confluence
- Strong written and oral communication
- Customer engagement
Education:
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or a related field
ATR is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) who will provide equal
employment opportunity to employees and applicants for employment
without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, color, sex, pregnancy,
national origin, age, veteran status, ancestry, sexual orientation,
gender identity or expression, marital status, family structure, genetic
information, or mental or physical disability