Senior Principal
Cloud Engineer
Location: Washington, DC (Onsite)
Work Authorization: US Citizens or Full Green Cards
Duration: 6 - 9M CTH Position
Rate : $75/hr on W2- $200k- Salary
Client Job Description
Top Qualifications, Skills, Experience or Certifications:
1. 12+ years of experience in technology and 10+ years deploying/configuring
workloads within AWS Commercial Cloud using the Console, CLI, and scripting
methods.
2. Demonstrated understanding of compute, network, and storage principals
3. Demonstrated proficiency managing large Organization with Organization
Units, Policies, Configs to maintain compliance
4. AWS Solutions Architect Professional
Job Role Specific Requirements:
1. Solid experience with
PrismaCloud platform and familiarity with PaloAlto services
2. Support strategic cloud initiatives, such as TIC 3.0, Zero Trust
Architectures, and DevSecOps by providing architectural guidance and hands on
implementation approach
3. Identify and communicate opportunities for improving agency security posture
within cloud environments
4. Collaborate with external development teams to validate solution
architecture within agency cloud environment
5. Identify opportunities to periodically review and improve Service Control
Policies, Configs, remediations
6. Monitor alerts for security upgrades and risks as well as notifications from
AWS and Azure
7. Design and buildout of AWS environments using the console, CLI, and
Infrastructure as Code
8. Deploy CloudFormation IAC stacks/sets across Accounts
9. Support all tiers of applications deployed in the cloud, configuring
network, cloud native services, infrastructure, and privileges for development
teams (AWS Accounts, IAM Users and Roles, VPCs, cloud native services)
10. Identify opportunities for optimizing cloud consumption by the agency
11. Support migration of on-premise workloads to cloud following agency
governance and reference architectures
12. Recommend enterprise design improvements to comply with Federal policies
and standards
Preferred skills and qualifications:
1. Experience implementing, managing, and supporting security products to
protect workloads in AWS
2. Good understanding of FedRAMP services and best practices for their
consumption by application workloads – examples include API Gateway, Lambda
functions, Cognito, AWS Code Commit, and container services
3. Experience assessing, customizing, troubleshooting, optimizing, and
maintaining current and emerging technologies, platforms, and applications to
help ensure greater security and efficiencies, inclusive of containers
4. Demonstrated understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and
best practices across cloud service providers.
5. Demonstrated proficiency with implementing and managing AWS services via AWS
Console or CLI of AWS accounts, IAM users, IAM roles, VPCs, load balancers.
6. Experience managing AWS Public and GovCloud across regions.
7. Experience with deploying stack sets and using AWS Control Tower.
8. Good knowledge of GovCloud organizations provision accounts using Compliance
Framework.
9. Proficiency in automating processes with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation,
Packer, PowerShell, or Python, including use of remote APIs
10. Experience with cloud orchestration tools and continuous delivery processes
to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure for customers to consume
Information
Locations Position Open to Locals or from neighbouring statesIndustry Information TechnologyStatus OpenJob Age 46 Day'sCreated Date 10/14/2025No.of Positions 2Duration 12 monthsZip Code
