Cloud Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton1 day ago
McLean, VA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$87k - $198k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate secure cloud platforms and reusable tooling for generative AI, machine learning, and AI-enabled applications.
- Implement infrastructure as code and automation for provisioning, configuration, model endpoint deployment, and environment promotion.
- Develop integrations for foundation model access, prompt management, retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, agent tools, and API gateways.
- Create CI/CD, MLOps, and GenAIOps workflows supporting testing, evaluation, release management, rollback, and traceability.
- Implement security controls including least-privilege access, secrets management, encryption, network isolation, audit logging, content safeguards, and policy enforcement.
- Build observability for infrastructure, applications, model endpoints, and agents, including availability, latency, error, token usage, cost, retrieval-quality, and output-quality metrics.
- Troubleshoot technical issues, support customers, identify root causes, and improve reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Collaborate with customers, developers, data scientists, security teams, and platform teams to translate requirements into supported technical solutions.
- Create and maintain reference architectures, technical documentation, runbooks, knowledge base articles, and onboarding materials.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience developing and operating cloud solutions using Python and AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- At least 2 years of customer-facing technical support, platform engineering, or solutions engineering experience.
- At least 1 year of experience implementing or supporting AI, machine learning, or generative AI solutions in a cloud environment.
- Experience with managed AI platforms such as Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker AI, Microsoft Foundry, Azure Machine Learning, Azure OpenAI, or Vertex AI.
- Experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Bicep, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins.
- Experience with containers and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, or Google Kubernetes Engine.
- Experience with cloud networking, identity and access management, secrets management, encryption, logging, monitoring, and secure software delivery.
- Knowledge of multi-account, multi-subscription, or multi-tenant cloud architectures and workload and data isolation methods.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Systems.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
- Preferred experience includes production retrieval-augmented generation, AI agents, tool integrations, workflow orchestration, Model Context Protocol solutions, LLMOps/MLOps/GenAIOps, responsible AI, regulated or restricted environments, API management, serverless computing, data pipelines, vector databases, FinOps, cost optimization, and technical training.
- Preferred knowledge includes Agile or Scrum, ITIL, Confluence, Jira, Microsoft Office, and relevant cloud, AI, security, or networking certifications.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits are available to eligible employees.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, dependent care, and recognition awards are offered.
- Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis may participate in benefit programs, with select offerings for others.
- Work may be remote, hybrid, or onsite depending on the posting and may require occasional or regular work at Booz Allen or customer facilities.
- The position is full-time or part-time as applicable, and the posting will close within 90 days of the posting date.
Tech Stack
AWSAzureDockerGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoogle Cloud PlatformJenkinsKubernetesLinuxPythonTerraformWindows
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About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton builds and integrates software, analytics, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions while providing engineering and consulting services, primarily for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil government clients, with select commercial partnerships. Its business is largely government contracting and professional services delivering mission systems and cyber defense. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Booz Allen is a public company traded on the NYSE (ticker: BAH).