Cloud Engineer
Location: Hybrid (On-site and remote work available)
Job Overview:
Red River Technology is seeking a skilled Cloud Engineer to join our team in supporting an IRS program. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable and secure cloud infrastructure in a hybrid cloud environment (e.g., AWS GovCloud, Azure, on-premises, SaaS) using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) principles. You will play a key role in migrating legacy systems, optimizing costs, and ensuring compliance with FedRAMP High and NIST 800-53 standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design cloud architectures supporting IaC with cost optimization and compliance strategies.
- Develop and implement cloud infrastructure, including provisioning, scaling, and managing resources.
- Automate application deployments and updates, ensuring security policies are followed.
- Collaborate with teams to implement CI/CD practices and maintain robust documentation.
- Lead cloud migration efforts, creating playbooks, testing plans, and rollback procedures.
- Provide support in system architecture, CI/CD pipeline configuration, and system hardening.
Required Skills and Experience:
- Minimum 3 years in cloud framework design, development, and implementation.
- Proficiency with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Strong DevOps/DevSecOps experience, including CI/CD and automation tools (Terraform, GitLab, Ansible).
- Expertise in scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell) and tools for monitoring, reporting, and troubleshooting.
- Experience with cloud security best practices and NIST/OWASP frameworks.
- Familiarity with container registries, Linux, Windows Server, and network configurations (IPv4, IPv6).
Desirable Qualifications:
- Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management.
- Knowledge of cloud databases (relational and non-relational).
- Certifications in cloud platforms, DevOps, or related technologies are a plus.
- Strong problem-solving skills and experience mentoring or training teams.
Why Red River Technology:
Join a dynamic team supporting a critical government program and help drive innovation in cloud solutions and infrastructure management. Red River offers competitive compensation, benefits, and opportunities for career growth.
Basic Qualifications:
- U.S. Citizenship Required
Red River offers a competitive salary, excellent benefits and an exceptional work environment. You can review our benefit offerings here. If you are ready to join a growing company, please submit your resume and cover letter (optional).
EOE M/F/DISABLED/Vet
Red River is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, family medical history or genetic information, disability, past or present military service, or any other characteristics protected under the laws applicable in the locations where Red River operates. Red River will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.
Red River does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings or otherwise. Placement fees will not be paid to any recruiter unless Red River has an active agreement in place with the recruiter and such a request has been made by the Red River Talent Acquisition team and such candidate was submitted to the Red River Talent Acquisition Team via our Applicant Tracking System. Any unsolicited resumes or other data submitted to Red River in violation of this policy may be used by Red River without obligation to pay any fees of any kind to the recruiter.
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Red River brings together the ideal combination of talent, partners and products to disrupt the status quo in technology and drive success for business and government in ways previously unattainable. Red River serves organizations well beyond traditional technology integration, bringing more than 20 years of experience and mission-critical expertise in security, networking, analytics, collaboration, mobility and cloud solutions. Learn more at redriver.com.
