Cloud Engineer

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Description
Job Summary : As a Cloud engineer, you’ll use your experience to architect, build, and design solutions that integrate public Cloud services.

You will incorporate techniques like Infrastructure as Code to ensure repeatable deployment of resources.

You’ll provide expertise in the use of Cloud reference architectures and solutions to support software development in a DevOps environment.

You should have excellent troubleshooting skills, stay current with industry trends, and should be a team player.
Responsibilities:
- Creating/updating cloud environment configurations to establish/support application workloads, including:
1) Azure Focused: Configuration of Subscriptions, Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, load balancers, App Services, Azure Batch, Virtual Machines, resource tagging, billing, policy implementation, and security controls
2) AWS Focused: Configuration of AWS Accounts, IAM Users and Roles, VPCs, subnets, load balancers, Network routes, Transit Gateway, Control Tower, Systems Manager, Config Manager, stack sets, WAF, CloudFront, and Route53
- Understanding of shell scripting and executing commands via the command line
- Designing and building out automation platforms utilizing Infrastructure as Code methodologies – preferred skills are CloudFormation and/or Terraform, scripting capabilities with PowerShell and Python
- Supporting and completing requests for operational support to include communicating level of effort and status to cloud leadership team
- Supporting data calls for resources provisioned within the cloud environment and reporting out status of resources.
- Identifying and communicating opportunities for improving agency security posture within cloud environments
- Collaborating with external development teams to understand cloud workload solution architecture within agency AWS/Azure environment
- Performs day-to-day activities required to manage and administrate cloud infrastructure including resolving Incident tickets.


- Provides solutions to a variety of technical problems of moderate scope and complexity where analysis of situations or data requires a review of the variety
Qualifications:
- Must have a minimum of 3 years of related designing, planning and integrating cloud computing systems, possessing basic cloud computing skills and knowledge.


- AWS Solutions Architect Associate and/or Azure Administrator Associate certifications or higher
- Strong understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices across cloud service providers.
- Experience assessing, customizing, troubleshooting, optimizing, and maintaining current and emerging technologies, platforms, and applications to help ensure greater security and efficiencies, covering network, compute and storage principals.
- Experience with cloud orchestration tools and continuous delivery processes to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure for customers to consume
- Demonstrated proficiency in automating processes with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Packer, PowerShell, or Python, including use of remote APIs
- Experience working with containers and container orchestration systems and hardening practices.
- Candidate must be a U.S. citizen or green card holder who has resided in the U.S. for at least 3 years and the ability to obtain a public trust
Skills
Aws, Azure, Cloud, cloudformation, Terraform, Automation, Python, aws services, cloudfront, Powershell, Infrastructure, Scripting
Top Skills Details
Aws,Azure,Cloud,cloudformation,Terraform,Automation,Python,aws services,cloudfront,Powershell,Infrastructure,Scripting
Additional Skills & Qualifications
Excellent communication skills
Must be able to articulate their experience and explain step by step troubleshooting
Experience Level
Intermediate Level
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $57.69 - $63.70/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment.

Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms.

If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:
• Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in Washington,DC.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Oct 23, 2025.
h4>About TEKsystems:
We're partners in transformation.

We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity.

We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia.

As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change.

That's the power of true partnership.

TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.



The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services
We’re a leading provider of business and technology services.

We accelerate business transformation for our customers.

Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions.

We’re a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed.

We’re strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology.

We’re building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities.

TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies.

Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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