Cloud Platform Engineer
Credence Management Solutions, LLC5 days ago
McLean, VA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$100k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, operate, and improve secure AWS hosting solutions for development, test, and production environments.
- Build and maintain reusable Infrastructure as Code patterns using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar technologies.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated build, testing, security scanning, deployment, and release workflows.
- Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot Docker workloads on Amazon ECS/Fargate and Amazon EKS/Kubernetes.
- Develop Python, Shell, PowerShell, or similar automation to reduce manual effort and standardize operations.
- Provide troubleshooting, incident response, planned maintenance, technical escalation, production support, and rotating on-call coverage.
- Support monitoring, logging, access control, configuration management, patching, backup, security, and compliance activities.
- Translate customer and technical requirements into cloud infrastructure, deployment, and hosting solutions.
- Create technical designs, implementation plans, deployment procedures, runbooks, reusable patterns, and operational documentation.
- Collaborate with cloud engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, application, and customer stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
- At least 3 years of progressively responsible experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure automation, systems engineering, or a related field.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.
- CompTIA Security+ certification or ability to obtain it within 60 days, and AWS certification or ability to obtain one within 90 days.
- Hands-on experience designing, deploying, supporting, and troubleshooting AWS environments and core AWS services.
- Experience with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or another Infrastructure as Code technology.
- Experience developing, maintaining, or troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, or similar platforms.
- Production experience with Docker and at least one container platform, such as Amazon ECS/Fargate or Amazon EKS/Kubernetes.
- Experience with Python, Shell, PowerShell, or a similar scripting language.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure, deployment, networking, permissions, and container workload issues.
- Preferred qualifications include Terraform module and state-management experience, Git workflows, Kubernetes tools such as Helm, federal or NIST/DoD compliance experience, monitoring tools such as Prometheus or Grafana, AWS networking, Linux or Windows administration, Active Directory or LDAP, generative AI integrations, and customer-facing technical solutioning.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to document technical processes and communicate with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement in McLean, United States.
- Full-time position with no regular travel expected.
- Salary range of $100,000–$180,000 depending on experience, certifications, and qualifications.
- Opportunity to support mission-critical federal defense and health organizations.
- Required certifications may be obtained after joining, including CompTIA Security+ within 60 days and an AWS certification within 90 days.
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About Credence Management Solutions, LLC
Credence Management Solutions, LLC provides IT consulting, engineering, and mission support to U.S. federal agencies, with emphasis on defense, intelligence, health, and humanitarian programs. It builds and operates secure AI, cloud, cyber, and DevSecOps solutions and delivers program management and systems engineering under government contracts. The privately held firm is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, and supports customers such as the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.