- Company Name
- Thazen
- Job Title
- Cloud Engineer
- Job Description
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**Job title**: Cloud Engineer – Multi‑Cloud (AWS GovCloud/Secret & Azure Gov/Secret)
**Role Summary**: Design, deploy, and operate secure, compliant IL5/IL6 cloud environments for DoD and U.S. Government missions, leveraging IaC, DevSecOps, and high‑availability architecture.
**Expectations**:
- 4+ years of experience with AWS and/or Azure Gov/Secret regions.
- Active Secret clearance (or eligibility).
- Proven delivery of IL5/IL6 workloads in compliance with DoD CC SRG, NIST 800‑53, and FedRAMP High.
- Strong working knowledge of Palantir platforms (e.g., Vantage or Maven).
**Key Responsibilities**:
- Provision and maintain IL5/IL6 workloads on AWS GovCloud/Secret and Azure Gov/Secret.
- Architect secure, scalable, highly‑available solutions meeting DoD CC SRG, NIST 800‑53, and FedRAMP High.
- Implement IaC using Terraform plus native frameworks (CloudFormation/CDK or Bicep/ARM).
- Integrate DevSecOps pipelines, logging, monitoring, alerting, and policy‑as‑code.
- Configure networking (VPC/VNet, PrivateLink, firewalls, load balancers).
- Operate container platforms (EKS/ECS and AKS), perform image scanning, cluster hardening.
- Optimize performance, reliability, and cost; support incident response and maintain ATO documentation.
**Required Skills**:
- AWS GovCloud/Secret & Azure Gov/Secret architecture and operation.
- IaC: Terraform and one native framework (CloudFormation/CDK or Bicep/ARM).
- Containerization & orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, AKS).
- Identity & secrets management: IAM/KMS/Secrets Manager, Azure Entra ID, RBAC, Managed Identities, Key Vault.
- CI/CD and DevSecOps: artifact signing, supply‑chain security, policy‑as‑code.
- Monitoring & security: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Sentinel, Prometheus/Grafana.
**Required Education & Certifications**:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or related field.
- Certifications: AWS Security Specialty, AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, Azure Security Engineer, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, CISSP, Security+.
- Experience or knowledge of DoD/IC/Federal high‑security cloud programs is strongly preferred.