Cloud / System Engineering Lead (Senior)

Team: Information Technology

Location: North Chicago, IL

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Salary:

Key Tasks & Responsibilities

• Lead engineering support for cloud operations, enterprise systems, and hybrid-cloud services, and architect secure, high-availability, fault-tolerant cloud solutions aligned with USMEPCOM mission requirements.
• Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, and secure connectivity among cloud, on-premises, DISA-hosted, continuity, and remote environments.
• Engineer cloud DNS services, elastic load balancers, API gateways and integrations, and digital certificates, including renewal and troubleshooting.
• Monitor cloud availability, performance, capacity, cost, and operational risk, and resolve cloud, network, API, DNS, certificate, compute, and storage issues.
• Provide senior technical support during outages, coordinating diagnosis, mitigation, restoration, and validation with the Outage Response Team and supporting teams, and provide root-cause input.
• Lead preparation and execution of installations, upgrades, migrations, component refreshes, and deployments, including implementation, test, and rollback plans.
• Ensure cloud and system components are recorded in asset, configuration, and lifecycle repositories, and support refresh, disposition, and inventory validation.
• Develop automation and Infrastructure as Code for provisioning, configuration, deployment, and monitoring using Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, or equivalent tools.
• Integrate cloud capabilities with VMware, software-defined data-center, COOP, and on-premises environments, and design backup, disaster-recovery, and continuity capabilities.
• Evaluate requirements, estimate costs, and prepare concepts of operations, architecture documents, engineering designs, and service-design packages.
• Support implementation of DISA STIGs, DoD security controls, IAVAs, CND Directives, and RMF requirements, and coordinate escalation with AWS, DISA, and vendors.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, configurations, certificate and API records, and SOPs, and mentor cloud engineers, systems engineers, and administrators.

Education & Experience

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Minimum of eight (8) years of relevant cloud engineering, systems engineering, systems architecture, infrastructure engineering, or enterprise IT experience.

Preferred:

• Experience leading cloud or systems-engineering activities in a federal or DoD environment, including AWS GovCloud or other Government-authorized clouds.
• Advanced experience with Amazon VPC, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, API Gateway, AWS Certificate Manager, and AWS monitoring and security services.
• Experience planning cloud migrations, infrastructure refreshes, and modernization, and developing resilient hybrid architectures.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Python, PowerShell, or Bash, and VMware vSphere, vSAN, NSX, SRM, or VMware Cloud Foundation.
• Knowledge of DISA STIGs, DoD RMF, NIST controls, IAVA requirements, CND Directives, and ATO support.
• Strong technical leadership, architecture, vendor-management, and stakeholder-communication skills.

Certifications

• Required: Current AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer certification.
• Preferred: AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Advanced Networking, Security, or DevOps Engineer; Microsoft Azure Administrator; VMware certification; ITIL Foundation; or equivalent credentials.

Security Clearance

• Active Secret clearance or higher is required.

Other (Travel, Work Environment, DoD 8570 Requirements, Administrative Notes, etc.)

Work Environment / Travel:

• Remote position; Chicago, IL–area candidates preferred.
• After-hours availability may be required during outages, maintenance windows, deployments, migrations, and infrastructure-refresh activities.

Administrative Notes:

Period of Performance: March 1, 2027 – February 28, 2033

Contract Start Date: March 1, 2027

Note: By applying to this position, the candidate acknowledges and consents to having their resume included in an active competitive Government contract bid.