Cloud Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton5 days ago
Base Salary
$87k - $198k/yr
Responsibilities
- Engineer and operate AWS cloud infrastructure, including multi-account networking with VPCs, Transit Gateway, centralized egress, and inspection.
- Build, evolve, maintain, and secure cloud solution components across AWS, AWS GovCloud, and Azure.
- Create infrastructure as code with AWS CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation and deliver it through pull request-based CI/CD pipelines with automated tests.
- Automate infrastructure and cost controls such as schedules, lifecycle rules, tag enforcement, and budget alerts.
- Optimize cloud costs through rightsizing, Savings Plans or Reserved Instance coverage, storage lifecycle policies, and off-hours scheduling.
- Analyze AWS and Azure billing data using AWS Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage Reports, and Azure Cost Management.
- Manage container applications and use Kubernetes within a DevOps framework.
- Potentially implement cloud management platforms, showback or chargeback, AI and LLM cost optimization, Azure commercial levers, network and logging cost optimization, and GovCloud or DoD Impact Level 5 support.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience engineering and operating AWS cloud infrastructure, including multi-account networking with VPCs, Transit Gateway, and centralized egress and inspection.
- At least 3 years of experience writing infrastructure as code with AWS CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation and delivering it through pull request-based CI/CD pipelines with automated tests.
- At least 3 years of experience automating infrastructure and cost controls with Terraform, AWS CDK, or Python.
- At least 2 years of experience optimizing cloud costs, including rightsizing, Savings Plans or Reserved Instance coverage, storage lifecycle policies, and off-hours scheduling, with measured savings.
- Experience analyzing billing data in AWS and Azure, including AWS Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage Reports, and Azure Cost Management.
- Experience using AI coding assistants or agents in daily engineering work and reviewing and validating AI-generated infrastructure code before release.
- Bachelor’s degree in a Computer Science or Information Systems field.
- DoD 8140 IAT Level II certification, such as Security+ CE certification.
- Preferred experience includes Kion, CloudHealth, Apptio Cloudability, showback or chargeback, Amazon Bedrock, prompt caching, model routing, batch inference, Azure reservations, savings plans, Azure Hybrid Benefit, Transit Gateway, NAT gateways, public IPv4, CloudTrail, CloudWatch log retention, AWS GovCloud, DoD Impact Level 5 environments, and the FinOps Foundation Framework.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits are offered.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent-care benefits are offered.
- A recognition awards program acknowledges exceptional performance and demonstration of company values.
- Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis are eligible for the applicable benefits programs.
- Virtual employees may occasionally be required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility; hybrid and onsite arrangements follow leadership and customer-facility expectations.
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).