Cloud Engineer (AWS, Terraform, Containers)

About the role

Amentum is hiring a Cloud Engineer to support a team delivering cloud-based geolocation solutions in near-real-time to decision makers and warfighters worldwide. The role covers designing, building and maintaining cloud infrastructure, with a focus on migration, IaC, observability and high availability. Work schedule is Monday to Friday, 8 hours per day, with possible after-hours call-ins.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain cloud infrastructure, including modernization, migration and roadmaps, following best practices and governance.
• Build reusable modules (e.g., Helm Charts, Terraform) and enforce IaC development standards.
• Monitor infrastructure health and performance through logging and alerting, and fix issues to improve efficiency.
• Define failure and recovery strategies (backup, high availability) and cost optimization measures (tagging, budgets, rightsizing, autoscaling).
• Take part in continuous improvement, contribute to architectures, runbooks and operational procedures, and share knowledge internally.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and recommend improvements.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent 4 years of software development/engineering experience.
• Six years of software development/engineering experience overall, including at least four years on cloud-related systems.
• TS/SCI clearance with polygraph required; drug screening applies as a federal contractor.
• Work schedule Monday to Friday, 8 hours per day; after-hours call-in may be required.

Required skills

• Cloud infrastructure provisioning and management (compute, storage, networking, IAM), preferably AWS.
• IaC with Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK and similar tools.
• Containers and platform workloads (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS/AKS/GKE).
• Java and React development experience.
• Monitoring, logging and alerting (CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch).
• Backup, disaster recovery, high availability, secrets management and cost optimization.

What we offer

• Salary range of $278,000 - $308,000.
• Health, dental and vision insurance, paid time off and holidays.
• Retirement benefits including 401(k) matching, educational reimbursement and parental leave.
• Employee stock purchase plan, tax-saving options, disability and life insurance, and pet insurance.