Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS
TechSur Solutions Open · verified Oct 24, 2026 At a glance
Senior Cloud role at TechSur Solutions. Reston · full-time · $150,000–$165,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Build AWS landing zones and account structures, linking hub-and-spoke networks to customer WAN and DNS
- Use Terraform or CloudFormation with GitOps workflows to provision production, development, integration and sandbox environments
- Set up federated identity and access controls, then apply security guardrails against federal standards
- Keep cloud workloads patched, monitored and available, resolving incidents during round-the-clock operations
- Prepare runbooks and authorization evidence, then hand operational knowledge to customer IT staff
What you bring
- At least nine years deploying cloud environments, including substantial hands-on work in AWS
- A bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, engineering or a related discipline
- Production Infrastructure-as-Code experience with Terraform or CloudFormation, plus AWS landing-zone and network design experience
- Experience with federated IAM, cloud monitoring and workload troubleshooting, and NIST controls in federal settings
- Ability to obtain and retain the federal customer's required background investigation
Who this fits
This senior engineering role suits someone who can build AWS foundations and keep them running in production. The position is hybrid in Reston and includes 24/7 operations support.
From the employer
TechSur Solutions is a digital services company whose mission is to enable digital transformation for our customers to improve quality and efficiency. Based in the DC metropolitan area, TechSur specializes in advanced cloud services, modernization for both IT structures and applications, leveraging Agile development, and Data Analytics. Since we were formed in August of 2016, we have supported multiple impactful and exciting government programs.
TechSur is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer with deep Amazon Web Services expertise to design, build, and operate a federal customer's AWS cloud foundation. You will turn a cloud-agnostic enterprise architecture into a secure, well-governed AWS environment: multi-account landing zones, hub-and-spoke networking, and federated identity.
Once the foundation is in place, you will keep it running at production service levels. You will work daily with customer architects, security staff, and the wider SAIC team, automate through Infrastructure-as-Code, and help the customer's IT staff adopt the platform with confidence.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and deploy AWS landing zones, multi-account structures (AWS Organizations, Control Tower), and hub-and-spoke networking integrated with the customer's WAN and DNS.
- Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and GitOps workflows that provision consistent production, integration, development, and sandbox environments.
- Implement IAM and federated access through the customer's enterprise identity provider using SAML 2.0 and OIDC, aligned with Zero Trust principles.
- Configure security and compliance guardrails (Service Control Policies, AWS Config, Security Hub, GuardDuty) against NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 and customer security standards.
- Apply the enterprise tagging strategy for asset management, cost tracking, and chargeback/showback.
- Monitor environments with CloudWatch and enterprise tools such as Datadog, Splunk, and Dynatrace; integrate events, incidents, and changes with ServiceNow.
- Perform patching, routine maintenance, capacity planning, and rightsizing; troubleshoot and resolve incidents as part of 24/7 operations support.
- Design and test high availability, backup, and disaster recovery for cloud workloads.
- Write runbooks and SOPs, supply ATO evidence, and transfer knowledge to customer operations staff.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 9 years of experience deploying and configuring cloud environments, including significant hands-on AWS work.
- Production experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
- Hands-on experience with AWS multi-account landing zones, VPC design, Transit Gateway, and Direct Connect or site-to-site VPN.
- Experience implementing IAM and single sign-on federation (SAML 2.0/OIDC).
- Experience monitoring, patching, and troubleshooting Linux and Windows workloads in the cloud.
- Working knowledge of NIST SP 800-53 security controls in a federal environment.
- Ability to obtain and maintain the background investigation required by the federal customer.
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
- AWS Certified Security – Specialty or HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate.
- Experience in FedRAMP Moderate/High or AWS GovCloud environments, including support for ATO packages.
- Working knowledge of Azure, Google Cloud, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
- Experience with policy-as-code (OPA/Rego, Checkov), Ansible, and CI/CD tools such as GitLab, GitHub Actions, or AWS CodePipeline.
- Experience integrating cloud tooling with ServiceNow ITSM and CMDB.
- Prior support of a civilian federal agency.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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