3 months ago
Annapolis Junction, MD, USASenior
Base Salary
$278k - $308k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure for modernization, migration, roadmaps, governance, and best-practice compliance.
- Build reusable Infrastructure as Code modules and enforce development standards using tools such as Terraform, Helm Charts, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK.
- Monitor infrastructure and system health using logging and alerting, respond to incidents, and implement performance and efficiency improvements.
- Develop and test backup, disaster recovery, high-availability, failure-recovery, cost-optimization, and cloud-service benefit strategies.
- Manage containers, platform workloads, secrets, keys, certificates, rotation policies, networking, security, and service-limit troubleshooting.
- Create architectures, runbooks, operational procedures, performance metrics, usage and cost reports, and knowledge-transfer materials.
- Recommend emerging technologies and participate in continuous-improvement initiatives.
Requirements
- Six years of software development or engineering experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity, including at least four years working with cloud-related technologies.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline from an accredited college or university, with four additional years of qualifying software development or engineering experience allowed as a substitute.
- Experience provisioning, configuring, and managing cloud infrastructure and services, including compute, storage, networking, and IAM.
- Experience designing and implementing secure, scalable cloud architectures and Infrastructure as Code.
- Knowledge of containers and platform workloads, including Docker and Kubernetes environments.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, backup, disaster recovery, high availability, secrets management, key management, cloud networking, and Linux.
- Experience optimizing cloud costs and performance through tagging, budgets, rightsizing, autoscaling, and usage or cost reporting.
- TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.
- Successful completion of the company’s drug-screening process, potentially including screening for marijuana and other federally controlled substances, is required.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Paid time off and holidays.
- Retirement benefits including 401(k) matching.
- Educational reimbursement.
- Parental leave.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
- Tax-saving options.
- Disability, life, and pet insurance.
- Monday–Friday schedule of 8 hours per day, with possible after-hours call-in.
- Position is open until filled; the original posting date is 08/17/2026.
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About Amentum
Amentum provides engineering, operations and maintenance, logistics, and mission support services to U.S. federal agencies and allied governments, including defense and energy programs. Its business centers on large, long-term government contracts spanning defense, space, nuclear cleanup, and infrastructure, with program management and technical services at the core. Headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, it was formed in 2020 from the spinoff of AECOM’s Management Services division.