Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

About the Role

This is the sole dedicated cloud infrastructure role on a small, high-impact platform team (~4–5 engineers) at a fast-growing defense/govtech company. You'll design and operate the cloud foundation that underpins the entire product, scaling an early-stage platform into a highly available, multi-environment system that supports both cloud and edge deployments.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure across AWS and multi-cloud environments.

• Deploy and manage applications on Kubernetes (EKS and other environments), ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.

• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform for repeatable, auditable deployments.

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines (e.g., CircleCI) to support rapid and reliable software delivery.

• Implement and operate observability systems covering metrics, logs, and tracing to monitor system health.

• Support integration with edge-deployed systems, including synchronization, connectivity, and deployment workflows across distributed environments.

• Debug and resolve production issues spanning cloud infrastructure, networking, and application layers.

• Collaborate with backend and infrastructure teams to ensure services are designed for resilience and operability.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure engineering — designing, building, and scaling platforms from scratch, not just deploying onto existing infrastructure.

• Production AWS experience with EC2, RDS, networking, and autoscaling.

• Kubernetes (EKS or similar) deployment and operations experience at scale.

• Terraform or equivalent IaC tooling used to manage production environments.

• Strong Bash scripting for automation, plus proficiency in Python or Go.

• Solid understanding of cloud networking concepts: VPCs, subnets, routing, NAT, load balancers, and security groups.

• Experience owning infrastructure in a build-phase or early-stage environment — standing systems up from the ground rather than maintaining existing platforms.

• CI/CD pipeline design and maintenance (CircleCI or similar).

• Nice to have: multi-cloud experience, edge Kubernetes (k3s, RKE2), or experience with constrained/intermittently connected environments.

• U.S. citizen or permanent resident — visa sponsorship is not available.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary range: $180,000 – $220,000 USD annually. No visa sponsorship available.

Location

Hybrid role based primarily in Arlington, VA. Additional hub locations include New York, NY and Seattle, WA.