Cloud Engineer – Journeyman

The Cloud Engineer – Journeyman designs, engineers, and integrates secure,

scalable multi‑cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructures that underpin

mission‑critical enterprise systems in highly regulated government environments.

The role focuses on implementing Infrastructure as Code, cloud automation, and

governance controls to standardize provisioning, enforce guardrails, and

maintain compliant operations across major public cloud platforms. The engineer

collaborates with security, networking, and application teams to modernize

legacy workloads, improve observability and disaster recovery, and document

architectures and operational patterns for ongoing support.

Key Responsibilities

• * Design and implement multi‑cloud and hybrid cloud architectures across major
• public cloud platforms to support enterprise workloads with strong emphasis
• on security, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• * Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using tools such as
• Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates, and automation pipelines to
• standardize and automate cloud resource provisioning.
• * Engineer cloud networking constructs including virtual networks/VPCs,
• subnets, routing, peering, and secure connectivity (VPN, Direct Connect,
• ExpressRoute) integrated with on‑premises enterprise networks.
• * Configure and manage cloud security services and controls such as IAM,
• security groups, key management, configuration monitoring, and threat
• detection to align with government security and cloud governance
• requirements.
• * Implement cloud monitoring, logging, and observability solutions (e.g.,
• CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Stackdriver, Elastic, Splunk) to provide
• operational visibility, detect anomalies, and support incident response
• activities.
• * Optimize cloud resource utilization through rightsizing, scaling policies,
• use of reserved and spot instances, and performance tuning to manage spend
• while meeting service level objectives.
• * Design and test disaster recovery and business continuity strategies for
• cloud workloads, including backup, replication, multi‑region architectures,
• and documented recovery playbooks for mission‑critical systems.
• * Support DevOps practices by integrating CI/CD pipelines with cloud platforms,
• container orchestration tools, and configuration management solutions to
• streamline deployments and reduce operational risk.
• Required Qualifications
• * Bachelor’s degree in IT, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information
• Systems, Data Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; equivalent
• experience may be considered.
• * Approximately 4–7 years of hands‑on experience in cloud engineering,
• automation, and security within enterprise or government environments,
• including multi‑cloud or hybrid architectures.
• * Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform,
• CloudFormation, or ARM templates and supporting automated deployment
• pipelines.
• * Demonstrated experience configuring and managing cloud networking, identity
• and access management, and security controls in at least one major public
• cloud provider.
• * Experience implementing and operating cloud monitoring and logging solutions
• and supporting incident response in production environments.
• * Must hold an active Secret clearance and meet applicable DoD 8140
• requirements.
• * Must be a US Citizen.

Preferred Qualifications

• * AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer.
• * Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure Administrator Associate
• certification.
• * Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as
• Docker and Kubernetes in production cloud environments.
• * Experience working in federal or other highly regulated enterprise IT
• environments with formal cloud governance frameworks.

Compensation

Ranges

Compensation

ranges for ASM Research positions vary depending on multiple

factors; including but not limited to, location, skill set, level of education,

certifications, client requirements, contract-specific affordability, government

clearance and investigation level, and years of experience. The compensation

displayed for this role is a general guideline based on these factors and is

unique to each role. Monetary compensation is one component of ASM's overall

compensation and benefits package for employees.

EEO Requirements

It is the policy of ASM that an individual's race, color, religion, sex,

disability, age, sexual orientation or national origin are not and will not be

considered in any personnel or management decisions. We affirm our commitment to

these fundamental policies.

All recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting for all job classifications is

done without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, or age. All

decisions on employment are made to abide by the principle of equal employment.

Physical Requirements

The physical requirements described in "Knowledge, Skills and Abilities" above

are representative of those which must be met by an employee to successfully

perform the primary functions of this job. (For example, "light office duties'

or "lifting up to 50 pounds" or "some travel" required.) Reasonable

accommodations may be made to enable individuals with qualifying disabilities,

who are otherwise qualified, to perform the primary functions.

Disclaimer

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature

and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not

designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all

duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to

this job.