5 days ago
Washington, DC, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$135k - $150k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop cloud architecture, applications, and service delivery models across PaaS, IaaS, SaaS, and DaaS environments.
- Automate, deploy, migrate, debug, and manage cloud resources and on-premises applications using infrastructure-as-code and DevSecOps practices.
- Analyze applications and recommend cloud migration, deployment, platform, and cloud adoption strategies.
- Implement secure cloud environments, policies, monitoring, alerting, availability, failure recovery, and performance and cost optimization.
- Troubleshoot cloud performance and availability issues and independently deliver new software products or major enhancements.
Requirements
- At least five years of relevant experience with major cloud service providers, cloud research and development, deployment activities, and high-availability environments.
- Experience deploying and managing infrastructure as code with tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Azure Resource Manager templates.
- Experience implementing cloud security best practices, maintaining architecture and process documentation, monitoring cloud resources, and optimizing cost and performance.
- Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field; additional years of experience may substitute for the degree.
- Preferred qualifications include Python, Microsoft Defender antivirus, log management, SSH, cross-domain systems such as Everfox or Forcepoint, Splunk, JIRA, Confluence, GitLab, Agile methodologies, and AI technology experience.
Benefits
- Typically Monday through Friday, eight-hour onsite workdays in Washington, DC, with flexibility within a two-week pay period to reach 80 hours.
- 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 and life insurance; and pet insurance.
- Employment is contingent on successful drug screening, which may include pre-hire screening for marijuana and other federally controlled substances.
- The posting opened October 15, 2026, and remains open until filled.
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.