Cloud Engineer - Container Orchestration - Remote

Overview

Ready to Ignite your career and work alongside some of the most innovative and brightest professionals in federal services today? Join us and unleash your potential working in an agile environment alongside the men and women charged with ensuring the success of one of the most important missions in American Government. We are seeking a Cloud Container Orchestration Engineer to support a government customer under a BPA contract. This role focuses on designing, deploying, and managing containerized workloads using Amazon EKS, ECS, and related AWS services to support secure, scalable, and automated cloud environments. If you are passionate about container orchestration, infrastructure automation, and security-first engineering practices in support of large-scale federal modernization efforts—this is the opportunity for you.

In Short

• Design and manage secure, scalable container orchestration platforms using Amazon EKS, ECS, and Fargate.
• Deploy microservices and application workloads across hybrid cloud environments with automated CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD).
• Develop Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests for containerized application provisioning and updates.
• Implement observability and logging strategies using CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Ensure compliance with FedRAMP, FISMA, and NIST 800-53 requirements in multi-tenant Kubernetes environments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning with AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform aligned with government system development and engineering standards.
• Support development and management of a self-service cloud portal with dynamic provisioning automation.
• Implement and manage DevSecOps pipelines to automate secure deployments of container-based workloads.
• Modernize cloud Concept of Operations (ConOps) documentation and operational workflows for container-based services.
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture teams to ensure container-based solutions meet system boundary and documentation requirements.

Requirements

• Experience with AWS services, particularly EKS, ECS, and Fargate.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and ArgoCD.
• Proficiency in developing Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests.
• Familiarity with observability tools such as CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Understanding of compliance frameworks like FedRAMP, FISMA, and NIST 800-53.
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools like AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform.
• Ability to work in a collaborative environment with enterprise architecture teams.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) principles.
• Experience in governance and process improvement initiatives.
• Strong documentation and communication skills.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on impactful projects in federal services.
• Collaboration with innovative professionals.
• Agile working environment.
• Potential for career advancement.
• Support for professional development and training.