Principal Cloud Engineer
Location: Washington, DC (1200 New Jersey Ave SE) — 100% Onsite. Clearance: Public Trust (U.S. Citizen required). Duration: 6 Months with Possible Extension. Work Schedule: Standard, 40 hours/week.
Role Summary
The Principal Cloud Engineer will serve as a senior technical expert responsible for designing, deploying, and managing cloud architectures across AWS and/or Azure environments. This role involves hands‑on engineering, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), troubleshooting complex issues, and guiding cloud adoption best practices within a fast‑paced federal environment. The engineer will influence strategic cloud decisions, ensure alignment with FedRAMP requirements, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver secure, scalable, and cost‑effective cloud solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, deploy, and troubleshoot cloud architectures and services.
- Produce Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or Configuration as Code (CaC) with a code‑first approach, ensuring clarity and maintainability.
- Collaborate with engineering and development teams to evaluate and implement optimal cloud solutions.
- Diagnose and resolve complex performance, security, and technical challenges across cloud environments.
- Support all tiers of cloud‑hosted applications, including configuration of networks, cloud‑native services, infrastructure, and user privileges.
- Identify opportunities to optimize cloud consumption and provide strategic recommendations.
- Create and update cloud environment configurations to support application workloads, including:
- Azure: Subscriptions, Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, load balancers, App Services, Azure Batch, Virtual Machines, resource tagging, billing, policy enforcement, and security controls.
- AWS: Accounts, IAM users/roles, VPCs, subnets, load balancers, routing, Transit Gateway, Control Tower, Systems Manager, Config Manager, stack sets, WAF, CloudFront, Route53.
Required Technical Skills
- 12+ years in Information Technology, including 8+ years of hands‑on deployment/configuration experience in AWS or Azure (DevOps‑oriented experience preferred).
- Expertise in designing and implementing cloud architectures.
- Strong understanding of FedRAMP services and associated best practices.
- Experience managing AWS Public and GovCloud across regions.
- Experience deploying stack sets and using AWS Control Tower .
- Strong knowledge of enterprise computing, Linux and Windows operating systems, and troubleshooting methodologies.
- Proficiency in automation using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Packer, PowerShell, or Python , including interaction with remote APIs.
- Demonstrated experience implementing and managing AWS services via Console or CLI (IAM users/roles, VPCs, load balancers, etc.).
- Solid understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices across providers.
- Knowledge of Agile methodologies.
- Experience documenting requirements, user stories, and use cases .
- Ability to perform effectively within a dynamic, fast‑paced team environment.
- Professional Architect Certification in either AWS or Azure . TSR SAIJP
(None explicitly listed beyond required qualifications; all provided technical content has been integrated into Required Skills.)
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree and 12–15 years of relevant experience, or Master’s degree with 10–13 years of experience. A technical Doctorate is acceptable.
- Must be a U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
- Must meet all experience and certification requirements as outlined above. TSR SAIJP
About the Team / Company
This role supports the Department of Transportation (DOT) under a Leidos prime contract. The position is 100% onsite at a customer/government site and may lead to conversion to a full‑time Leidos employee. Hiring is time‑sensitive, with interviews conducted via phone or Microsoft Teams.
Benefits (employee contribution)
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
- Life insurance
- Retirement plan
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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