Cloud / System Engineering Lead (Senior)

Job description

Computer World Services, Corp. (CWS) seeks a Senior Cloud / System Engineering Lead to provide engineering leadership for cloud operations, enterprise systems, infrastructure modernization, service restoration, and component lifecycle activities supporting the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. The Cloud / System Engineering Lead provides technical leadership for cloud environments, Virtual Private Clouds, DNS, load balancers, API connectivity, digital certificates, automation, and hybrid-cloud integration, working with infrastructure, network, application, cybersecurity, service-management, Government, and vendor teams to deliver secure, resilient, scalable, and supportable cloud services. ### Key Tasks & Responsibilities - Lead engineering support for cloud operations, enterprise systems, and hybrid-cloud services, and architect secure, high-availability, fault-tolerant cloud solutions aligned with USMEPCOM mission requirements. - Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, and secure connectivity among cloud, on-premises, DISA-hosted, continuity, and remote environments. - Engineer cloud DNS services, elastic load balancers, API gateways and integrations, and digital certificates, including renewal and troubleshooting. - Monitor cloud availability, performance, capacity, cost, and operational risk, and resolve cloud, network, API, DNS, certificate, compute, and storage issues. - Provide senior technical support during outages, coordinating diagnosis, mitigation, restoration, and validation with the Outage Response Team and supporting teams, and provide root-cause input. - Lead preparation and execution of installations, upgrades, migrations, component refreshes, and deployments, including implementation, test, and rollback plans. - Ensure cloud and system components are recorded in asset, configuration, and lifecycle repositories, and support refresh, disposition, and inventory validation. - Develop automation and Infrastructure as Code for provisioning, configuration, deployment, and monitoring using Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, or equivalent tools. - Integrate cloud capabilities with VMware, software-defined data-center, COOP, and on-premises environments, and design backup, disaster-recovery, and continuity capabilities. - Evaluate requirements, estimate costs, and prepare concepts of operations, architecture documents, engineering designs, and service-design packages. - Support implementation of DISA STIGs, DoD security controls, IAVAs, CND Directives, and RMF requirements, and coordinate escalation with AWS, DISA, and vendors. - Maintain architecture diagrams, configurations, certificate and API records, and SOPs, and mentor cloud engineers, systems engineers, and administrators. ### Education & Experience **Required:** - Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field. - Minimum of eight (8) years of relevant cloud engineering, systems engineering, systems architecture, infrastructure engineering, or enterprise IT experience. **Preferred:** - Experience leading cloud or systems-engineering activities in a federal or DoD environment, including AWS GovCloud or other Government-authorized clouds. - Advanced experience with Amazon VPC, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, API Gateway, AWS Certificate Manager, and AWS monitoring and security services. - Experience planning cloud migrations, infrastructure refreshes, and modernization, and developing resilient hybrid architectures. - Experience with Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Python, PowerShell, or Bash, and VMware vSphere, vSAN, NSX, SRM, or VMware Cloud Foundation. - Knowledge of DISA STIGs, DoD RMF, NIST controls, IAVA requirements, CND Directives, and ATO support. - Strong technical leadership, architecture, vendor-management, and stakeholder-communication skills. ### Certifications - Required: Current AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer certification. - Preferred: AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Advanced Networking, Security, or DevOps Engineer; Microsoft Azure Administrator; VMware certification; ITIL Foundation; or equivalent credentials. ### Security Clearance - Active Secret clearance or higher is required. ### Other (Travel, Work Environment, DoD 8570 Requirements, Administrative Notes, etc.) **Work Environment / Travel:** - Remote position; Chicago, IL–area candidates preferred. - After-hours availability may be required during outages, maintenance windows, deployments, migrations, and infrastructure-refresh activities. **Administrative Notes:** **Period of Performance:** March 1, 2027 – February 28, 2033 **Contract Start Date:** March 1, 2027 Note: By applying to this position, the candidate acknowledges and consents to having their resume included in an active competitive Government contract bid.