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Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Cloud Engineer to join our team!

What You'll Be Doing:

• Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure across development, staging, and production environments.
• Manage and optimize cloud services, including compute, networking, storage, databases, identity, and monitoring.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform, or CloudFormation.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines to support safe, repeatable, and efficient software delivery.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident-response practices.
• Improve system reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Establish and maintain cloud security best practices, including access controls, encryption, secrets management, and network security.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve application deployment and operational readiness.
• Participate in on-call rotations and production incident response, as applicable.
• Document infrastructure, operating procedures, architecture decisions, and troubleshooting guides.
• Evaluate new technologies and recommend solutions that support the contracts’s technical and business goals.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, site reliability engineering, systems engineering, or a related field.
• Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent experience in lieu of degree is acceptable)
• TS/SCI w/ Poly is required
• Professional experience with at least one major cloud provider, such as: Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud Platform
• Strong experience with infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform.
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency with Linux administration, networking fundamentals, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools.
• Understanding of cloud security, IAM, secrets management, and secure infrastructure design.
• Experience with scripting or programming languages such as Python, Bash, Go, or JavaScript.
• Strong communication, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing highly available and fault-tolerant systems.
• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, ECS or EKS, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, and Route 53.
• Experience with Kubernetes administration and deployment workflows.
• Familiarity with GitOps tools and practices.
• Experience implementing cloud cost-management and optimization strategies.
• Experience with compliance frameworks or regulated environments.
• Relevant certifications, such as: AWS Certified Solutions ArchitectAWS Certified DevOps EngineerCertified Kubernetes AdministratorAzure or Google Cloud professional certifications
• Experience working in a rapidly changing environment.

Security Clearance Requirement:

An active Top Secret SCI w/Polygraph security clearance is required for this position.​

This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.

The Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.

Salary Range: $148,300.00 - $266,900.00

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.

We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!

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