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Imagine Next!At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible. Job Description:\nOur Space Operations Program Directorate is passionate about making America the undisputed leader in Space because we understand that ensuring our nation’s security for future generations depends on it. Parsons creates game-changing space solutions by teaming highly respected subject matter experts with brilliant technologists. Do you want to be part of a team that is helping the government solve major national security challenges in the space domain? We need your help.\nOur Team is seeking a highly experienced and certified Cloud Engineer to join our team. The Systems Operations Engineer will ensure the continuous health, availability, security, system currency, and repeatability of the organization’s cloud environments and core operational platforms. Serving as a hybrid system administrator and cloud operations specialist, you will manage core internal services-specifically Keycloak for identity management and Mattermost for team collaboration-while maintaining Terraform and Ansible automation scripts to guarantee rapid infrastructure reconstitution. You will actively drive system lifecycle management, ensuring all operating systems, software packages, dependencies, and platform applications remain fully updated, patched, and compliant against security vulnerabilities. You will work closely with development teams to support smooth, reliable application deployments across multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud orchestration platforms. You will need experience with DoW cloud service offerings, software development processes, system authorization processes, and policies to create cohesive and integrated system architectures.\nThis position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to critical missions by leveraging advanced cloud technologies to enhance data processing, analytics, and integration capabilities. In this role you will work closely with government stakeholders, software developers, mission operators, and commercial vendors to ensure commercial capabilities are integrated, tested, and transitioned effectively into the Joint Commercial Operations (JCO) cloud environment.\nThis position is eligible for remote work, though the ideal candidate should be located in Colorado Springs, CO.\nRequired Skills:\nAs a Cloud Engineer at Parsons, required skills and responsibilities include:\nBachelor’s degree in a technical discipline with 2+ years of relevant systems operations, infrastructure support, or IT engineering experience; or an associate degree/HS diploma with 5+ years of experience.\nStrong technical expertise with core cloud infrastructure services (EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, security groups).\nEvaluate and select appropriate cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, GovCloud, etc.) based on workload needs, compliance requirements, and cost considerations.\nMonitor cloud infrastructure telemetry, manage system logs, rapidly troubleshoot operational disruptions, and perform root-cause remediation.\nDemonstrated experience managing system updates, software lifecycles, and automated patch management across cloud environments using development pipelines.\nLead software lifecycle and patch management efforts, ensuring operating systems, container base images, AMI templates, and software dependencies are consistently kept current and supported.\nPerform routine Linux and cloud administration, including automated system deployments, health monitoring, user access management, and resource optimization across AWS environments.\nAdminister, configure, and upgrade core operational tools, applying major/minor vendor releases and security patches for Keycloak (IAM/SSO) and Mattermost (collaboration platform).\nDevelop, test, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management scripts with Terraform and Ansible to enable automated, repeatable reconstitution of fully patched cloud environments and applications.\nMaintain version-controlled Terraform and Ansible repositories capable of rebuilding complete, up-to-date infrastructure and application stacks on demand.\nProactively monitor vulnerability scan results, track End-of-Life (EOL) software timelines, and rapidly apply remediation patches for zero-day vulnerabilities and security advisories.\nCreate and maintain system administration logs, user privilege matrices, version upgrade procedures, and disaster recovery runbooks.\nDefine end-to-end architectural blueprints for cloud-enabled solutions (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and ensure alignment with U.S. government IT regulatory frameworks.\nCommunicate architectural trade-offs and risk assessments to executives and non-technical stakeholders; produce architecture diagrams, decision logs, and reference implementations.\nEnsure data consistency, latency, and reliability across cloud and hybrid environments.\nEmbed security controls-including identity and access management, encryption, and network segmentation-into all designs.\nModel capacity, scalability, and resiliency needs; implement monitoring, observability, and cost-optimization strategies (right-sizing, auto-scaling, reserved instances).\nAbility to obtain a security clearance if required by the contract.\nStrong communication skills, including the ability to create high-quality technical documentation and presentations for senior leadership.\nExtensive troubleshooting abilities and comfort working in a fast-paced environment.\nAbility to collaborate with diverse stakeholders to ensure cloud solutions meet mission requirements and follow best practices.\nDoD 8140/8570 IAT Level II certification (Security+, CISSP, CCNA, etc.) or ability to obtain certification within 60 days of employment.\nDesired Skills:\nStrong understanding of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and serverless architectures.\nFamiliarity with networking concepts (VPC, VPN, DNS, load balancing).\nUnderstanding of security frameworks (Zero Trust, IAM, encryption at rest/in-flight).\nExperience with Agile/Scrum development processes.\nExposure to DevOps culture and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Argo).\n Security Clearance Requirement:\nNoneThis position is part of our Federal Solutions team.The Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.Salary Range: $74,800.00 - $130,900.00We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!This position will be posted for a minimum of 3 days and will continue to be posted for an average of 30 days until a qualified applicant is selected or the position has been cancelled.Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest-APPLY TODAY!Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices. 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