Cloud Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

About Us

Venatore is a woman-owned small business headquartered in Tampa, Florida, providing mission-driven technology and professional services to federal defense and civilian agencies. We deliver expertise in information technology, engineering, logistics, and program support to help our clients achieve operational excellence and mission success.

About the Job

The Cloud Engineer designs, deploys, and sustains secure, scalable GovCloud infrastructure supporting U.S. Southern Command. This role focuses on AWS and Azure environments, ensuring high availability, performance, cost efficiency, and compliance with Department of Defense (DoD) cloud security requirements. The Cloud Engineer works closely with cybersecurity and government stakeholders to implement compliant architectures, automate deployments, and optimize workloads across multiple impact levels. This position is performed remotely. U.S. citizenship and the ability to access U.S. military installations are required; while no clearance is required, an active Secret or higher clearance is preferred.

Responsibilities

Cloud Architecture & Engineering

Design, deploy, and maintain secure AWS and Azure GovCloud environments in accordance with DoD cloud security frameworks and best practices.

Provision and sustain IL2, IL4, and IL5 cloud infrastructure using native AWS and Azure services.

Ensure high availability, scalability, and resilience for mission-critical applications.

Identity, Access & Network Security

Configure and manage identity and access management (IAM) solutions and enforce role-based access control (RBAC).

Manage cloud security groups, firewalls, and Zero Trust-aligned access policies.

Optimize cloud networking configurations, including VPC peering, subnets, VPNs, and cross-domain connectivity.

Infrastructure Automation & IaC

Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and / or Azure ARM templates.

Automate secure cloud deployments to improve consistency, compliance, and scalability.

Support configuration standardization and repeatable deployment patterns.

Containerization, Monitoring & Cost Management

Provision and manage shared container environments and associated storage resources.

Track and report Kubernetes and workload-specific resource utilization using GovCloud-native observability tools such as Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch, and Cost Explorer.

Reconcile prepaid or reserved capacity against actual usage and produce monthly reports on compute, storage allocation, tagging compliance, and projected costs.

Optimization, Compliance & Advisory Support

Advise government stakeholders on workload placement and optimization strategies across IL2, IL4, and IL5 environments.

Implement cloud-native monitoring, cost tracking, and compliance automation services to support chargeback alignment.

Support ATO processes, including SSP, SAR, and POA&M development, and collaborate with cybersecurity teams to ensure compliance with FedRAMP, RMF, NIST, and DoD IL4 / IL5 requirements.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or five (5) years of equivalent experience in cloud engineering.

Demonstrated experience designing, deploying, and managing AWS and Azure cloud environments with an emphasis on security, automation, and scalability.

Proficiency with IAM, RBAC, Zero Trust Architecture, and cloud networking concepts such as VPC peering, subnets, VPNs, and security groups.

Demonstrated proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tools including Terraform, CloudFormation, or ARM templates.

Experience supporting ATO processes and maintaining compliance with DoD governance frameworks and NIST requirements.

Demonstrated ability to collaborate with cybersecurity teams to implement security controls while optimizing cloud resource utilization.

Ability to manage and prioritize complex project tasks.

Ability to travel approximately 5–15%, as required.

U.S. citizenship and ability to successfully pass a background check for access to U.S. military bases.

Preferred Qualifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, Microsoft Certified : Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Professional Cloud Architect.

Experience supporting government IT programs and operating in regulated federal environments.

Portuguese or Spanish language proficiency.

Active Secret or TS / SCI clearance.