Cloud Engineer - Senior

ECS is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to work in our Washington, DC - Hybrid office. Please Note: This position is contingent upon contract award.

ECS is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure that will serve as the foundation for the SEC's modernization and AI initiatives. As the SEC accelerates cloud adoption under FedRAMP guidelines, this role is critical to building the secure, scalable, and automated cloud environments that will host next-generation workloads—including AI/ML model training and inference, data analytics pipelines, and modernized application platforms.

You will architect cloud environments using infrastructure-as-code, implement CI/CD pipelines, and build the automation that enables the SEC to move faster while maintaining the highest levels of security and compliance. This is a hands-on engineering role with strategic impact: the cloud infrastructure you build will directly enable the SEC's AI Task Force and modernization programs to deliver results.

Salary Range: $96,941.64 - $106,635.80

General Description of Benefits

• 8+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP (multi-cloud experience strongly preferred)
• Expert-level infrastructure-as-code skills with Terraform, CloudFormation, or ARM/Bicep templates
• Experience designing and operating Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS, or GKE) in production federal environments
• Strong CI/CD pipeline engineering (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps)
• Experience building cloud infrastructure for AI/ML workloads—GPU instances, SageMaker/Azure ML, data lake architectures
• Deep knowledge of cloud networking (VPCs, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, load balancing, DNS) and security (IAM, KMS, security groups, WAF)
• Experience with cloud monitoring, observability, and cost optimization (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent)
• Knowledge of federal cloud security requirements (FedRAMP High, FISMA, NIST 800-53, DISA STIGs for cloud)
• Active Secret clearance or ability to obtain; U.S. citizenship required