Cloud Engineer – Mid-Level

About us:

BDR Solutions, LLC, (BDR) supports the U.S. Federal Government in successfully achieving its mission and goals. Our service and solution delivery starts with understanding each client’s end-state, and then seamlessly integrating within each Agency’s organization to improve and enhance business and technical operations and deployments.

(Military Veterans are highly encouraged to apply)

Role Overview:

BDR Solutions LLC is seeking a Cloud Engineer to support mission-critical federal platforms. This role focuses on AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes (EKS), and DevSecOps-driven operations to ensure high availability, scalability, and security.

Key responsibilities include managing cloud environments, maintaining CI/CD pipelines, optimizing performance and costs, and supporting 24x7 operations. The ideal candidate brings deep AWS expertise, strong automation skills, and experience working in secure, high-availability environments.

Responsibilities

• Active MBI – mandatory; candidates in process do NOT qualify
• Current or recent IRS contract experience strongly preferred
• 7+ years of hands-on AWS cloud engineering
• Expert-level Terraform for automated IaC provisioning and management
• DevSecOps CI/CD pipeline design using GitHub Actions with SAST/DAST/secrets scanning
• Experience with Databricks Asset Bundles for workspace deployment automation
• Strong proficiency with EKS, Lambda, S3, IAM, and VPC networking
• Experience with blue/green and canary deployment strategies
• AWS DevOps Engineer Professional or AWS Certified Developer preferred
• Willingness to support 24x7 on-call including off-hours deployment windows
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
• Required

Minimum Qualifications

• Design and implement the foundational DevSecOps CI/CD pipeline architecture using GitHub Actions for tenant onboarding automation
• Automate tenant workspace provisioning and IaC-based onboarding workflows using Terraform and Databricks Asset Bundles
• Enforce code quality, dependency scanning, and policy-as-code with approval gates and full audit trails
• Implement secure environment promotion through dev/test/prod for deliverables
• Support 24x7 CI/CD pipeline monitoring and failure remediation
• Maintain Platform Operations Runbook and IaC Baselines
• Contribute to tenant satisfaction by ensuring provisioning pipelines meet the 10-business-day SLA
• Tools and Platforms:
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep)
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs)
• Clearance Required:
• Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) — ACTIVE

Qualifications

• Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience with monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Knowledge of microservices architecture
• Experience with automated testing and deployment strategies
• In addition, U.S Citizenship is required. Select applicants will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and be able to obtain a government-granted security clearance. Individuals may also be subject to a background investigation including, but not limited to criminal history, employment and education verification, drug testing, and creditworthiness.
• This position is contingent upon contract award. Employment is not guaranteed and will proceed only if the associated contract is awarded and funded.
• The compensation range for this position is $130,000 - 180,000.

Compensation

decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to location, skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.

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