Server & Network Lead / Cloud Engineer – UNIX

Position Overview

The Server & Network Lead directs the design and operation of cloud‑hosted

compute and network infrastructure that supports mission‑critical enterprise

workloads. This role architects and manages environments on leading cloud

platforms, implementing scalable virtual networks, compute resources, and

security controls to meet performance and availability expectations. The Server

& Network Lead also oversees automation of provisioning, configuration

management, and deployment pipelines, ensuring infrastructure is consistently

delivered through infrastructure‑as‑code in a highly regulated environment.

Key Responsibilities

• * Design and implement cloud infrastructure architectures, including virtual
• networks, subnets, routing, and security boundaries that support highly
• available enterprise applications.
• * Configure and manage compute, storage, and networking services on major cloud
• platforms, ensuring environments are secure, resilient, and aligned with
• architectural standards.
• * Develop and maintain infrastructure‑as‑code templates and automation scripts
• to standardize provisioning, configuration, and deployments across
• environments.
• * Monitor and optimize cloud environments for cost, performance, and
• reliability, leading incident response and root‑cause analysis for
• infrastructure and connectivity issues.
• * Collaborate with application, security, and operations teams to integrate
• network and server designs with application requirements, identity solutions,
• and security controls.
• * Define and maintain standards, runbooks, and documentation for cloud
• infrastructure, including configuration baselines, deployment patterns, and
• change‑management processes.
• * Evaluate new cloud services, networking capabilities, and automation tools,
• providing recommendations and implementation plans that improve scalability
• and operational efficiency.
• * Provide technical guidance and informal leadership to engineers supporting
• cloud compute and network services, promoting best practices and knowledge
• sharing.
• Required Qualifications
• * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering,
• or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• * 8+ years of experience in systems, network, or cloud engineering roles with
• significant hands‑on work designing and operating environments in public
• cloud platforms (such as AWS, Azure, or similar).
• * Strong expertise with cloud infrastructure components, including virtual
• networking, compute, storage, security groups, and load balancing in
• enterprise environments.
• * Demonstrated experience building and maintaining infrastructure‑as‑code and
• automation using tools such as Terraform or equivalent and scripting in
• PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
• * Proven ability to monitor, troubleshoot, and tune cloud infrastructure for
• performance, reliability, and cost optimization, including participation in
• on‑call or incident response rotations.
• * Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust investigation and U.S.
• citizenship as required for this remote federal IT position.

Preferred Qualifications

• * Professional‑level cloud certification such as AWS Solutions Architect, Azure
• Solutions Architect Expert, or an equivalent vendor credential.
• * Experience designing or operating containerized workloads and orchestration
• platforms (for example, Docker or Kubernetes) in cloud environments.
• * Background supporting federal or other highly regulated clients, including
• familiarity with compliance, security baselines, and documentation
• expectations.
• * Experience providing technical leadership or mentoring for cloud, systems, or
• network engineering teams.

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.