
Cloud Engineers, Senior Engineers, Architects & Automation Specialists (CBP)
Agile Defense22 days ago
Reston, VA, USAMid Level / Senior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Build and operate resilient cloud environments capable of supporting continuous operational workloads.
- Create infrastructure as code and shared automation tooling that accurately represents deployed environments.
- Develop unattended deployment pipelines with observable failures and traceable execution.
- Design and operate identity and access, monitoring, telemetry, resilience, capacity, and cost-management capabilities.
- Integrate cloud services with legacy systems that cannot be replaced.
- Design security controls into systems and generate evidence for federal authorization and accreditation reviews.
- Collaborate with network engineers, security staff, and field teams supporting CBP sites.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship is required.
- Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and the ability to obtain and maintain a CBP Background Investigation and EOD are required; active BI is strongly preferred and processing can begin for candidates who do not hold one.
- Production workload experience in a government cloud environment is preferred.
- Experience writing infrastructure as code used by other engineers is preferred.
- Experience taking a system through a federal authorization process is preferred.
- Experience integrating cloud services with legacy systems is preferred.
- Experience with more than one cloud platform's tooling is preferred.
- Cloud platform and security certifications are useful but do not substitute for relevant hands-on experience.
Benefits
- Health insurance, life insurance, paid time off, holiday pay, short-term and long-term disability, retirement, and learning and development opportunities are available depending on position.
- A $10,000 signing bonus is available to candidates with an active CBP BI, payable after 90 days under standard terms.
- Hybrid work in Reston, Virginia, 3-5 days.
- Candidates without an active CBP BI may enter a processing pipeline that takes months rather than weeks.