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Principal Cloud Engineer

Saic, Olympia, Washington, United States

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Job Description SAIC is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer role in support of our Department of Transportation (DOT) contract for EITSS Infrastructure support. This is an onsite role; you will be required to work at DOT HQ in Washington, DC, a full five days.

Duties Included: providing technical, managerial, and administrative direction for problem definition, analysis, requirements development and implementation for complex-to-extremely complex systems within cloud infrastructure, troubleshooting cloud performance issues, analyzing network traffic, and providing capacity planning solutions.

Job Role Specific Requirements

Producing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or Configuration as Code (CaC), delivering solutions with a code‑first approach with sufficient comments and structure

Collaborating with engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions

Diagnosing and resolving complex performance, security, and/or technical challenges

Supporting all tiers of applications deployed in the cloud, configuring network, cloud‑native services, infrastructure, and privileges for development teams

Identifying opportunities for optimizing cloud consumption by the agency and providing strategic direction for addressing those opportunities

Creating/updating cloud environment configurations to establish/support application workloads, including:

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

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

Qualifications

12+ years of experience in information technology with 8+ years of focused, hands‑on experience deploying and configuring workloads within either AWS or Azure – preferred experience is DevOps focused

Experience designing and implementing cloud architectures

Good understanding of FedRAMP services and best practices for their consumption

Experience managing AWS Public and GovCloud across regions

Experience deploying stack sets and using AWS Control Tower

Strong knowledge of enterprise computing and operating systems such as Linux and Windows, and experience with troubleshooting

Proficiency in automating processes with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Packer, PowerShell, or Python, including use of remote APIs

Demonstrated proficiency with implementing and managing AWS services via AWS console or CLI of AWS accounts, IAM users, IAM roles, VPCs, and load balancers

Demonstrated understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices across cloud service providers

Knowledge of Agile Project Management methodologies

Experience documenting requirements, user stories, and use cases

Ability to work in a fast‑paced, dynamic, and team environment

Professional Architect Certification within either AWS or Azure

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

Target salary range: $160,001 – $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

Overview SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline. SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian and intelligence markets includes secure high‑end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission‑critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives. We are approximately 24,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.

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