2 months ago
Hanover, MD, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$245k - $285k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, modernize, migrate, and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and architectures.
- Develop reusable Infrastructure as Code modules using Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, and Helm Charts.
- Monitor infrastructure and systems, configure logging and alerting, troubleshoot issues, perform root-cause analysis, and respond to incidents.
- Implement and test backup, disaster recovery, failure recovery, and high-availability strategies.
- Optimize cloud cost and performance through tagging, budgets, rightsizing, autoscaling, and usage/cost reporting.
- Manage cloud networking, security, service limits, secrets, certificates, key management, and rotation policies.
- Create architectures, runbooks, operational procedures, performance metrics, after-action reports, and Tier 1 SOP improvements.
- Provide knowledge transfer, contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, and recommend emerging technology enhancements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline from an accredited college or university, or four additional years of software engineering experience may substitute for the degree.
- Twenty years of software engineering experience on programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
- Recent experience provisioning, configuring, and managing cloud infrastructure and services, preferably AWS.
- Experience designing and implementing secure, scalable cloud architectures and migrating applications to cloud environments.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
- Knowledge of containers and platform workloads, including Docker and Kubernetes-based platforms.
- Development experience with Java and React.
- Experience with ActiveMQ and/or Kafka and deployment strategies for high-availability systems.
- Experience configuring monitoring, logging, and alerting and responding to incidents.
- Experience with backup, disaster recovery, high availability, cloud cost optimization, networking, security, and service-limit troubleshooting.
- Experience managing secrets and key management, including certificates and rotation policies.
- Experience documenting architectures, runbooks, and operational procedures, plus experience with Linux OS.
- TS/SCI clearance with full-scope polygraph 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 and life insurance.
- Pet insurance.
- Work schedule is Monday through Friday, eight hours per day, with after-hours call-in potentially required.
- The posting was originally published September 1, 2026 and remains open until filled.
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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.