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Cloud Engineering Tech Lead

Freddie Mac
Freddie Mac Salary
Mc Lean, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/11/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/6/2026
At Freddie Mac, our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us, and it’s at the core of everything we do. Since our charter in 1970, we have made home possible for more than 90 million families across the country. Join an organization where your work contributes to a greater purpose.

Position Overview:

Are you an experienced AWS cloud platform engineer with passion for automation and proficient with sustainability engineering? You would be joining a diverse multi-functional team to collaborate on building the service platform to enable Freddie Mac applications team to host/migrate business applications. The candidate should be able to drive implementation and improvement of tools and technologies for enterprise adoption in accordance with operational and security standards. Apply now and learn why there’s #MoreAtFreddieMac!

Our Impact:

  • Support operations by providing a resilient, highly available, and performing platform resulting in exceeding established metrics, customer requirements and financial objectives.
  • Partner with Product and Business team members to ensure high quality product is developed and released into production.
  • Work closely with Architecture, Customers, Operations, and Product to specify and document solutions and practices.

Your Impact:

  • Provide technical leadership to a team of engineers as technical escalation point.
  • Help management team define and implement strategy, roadmap and solutions and ensure standards.
  • Practice and promote a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) culture to improve and operate cloud platform offerings to the enterprise while working toward innovation, automation, and operational excellence.
  • Participate in design reviews of architecture patterns for service/application deployment in cloud (AWS).
  • Collaborate with platform pillar leads in core platform, container orchestration, monitoring, and databases to build-out the platform.
  • Automate for efficiency and reliability and apply CI/CD tooling as appropriate.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in information technology, engineering, computer science, related field or equivalent experience. Advanced studies/degree is preferred.
  • 3 years of experience with engineering and supporting containerization technology ( Kubernetes, AWS(ECS/EKS) etc.) at scale.
  • 5 years proven experience with AWS cloud formation, Terraform, or similar tools.
  • 8 - 10 years of overall information technology experience with an emphasis on integration and delivery of virtual/cloud platforms to enterprise applications, recent public cloud experience preferred.
  • Experience with Rancher, ArgoCD, Python, Ansible and shell scripting to automate routine operation tasks.
  • Ability to provide 24x7 operational support on periodic basis and triage complex issues to restore availability.
  • Documentation of Engineering Solutions and Designs.

Keys to Success in this Role:

  • Excellent collaborator and phenomenal teammate.
  • A spirit for innovation and ability to work in the space of “no longer” and “not yet”.
  • Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.

Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.

We consider all applicants for all positions without regard to gender, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical and mental disability, pregnancy, ethnicity, genetic information or any other protected categories under applicable federal, state or local laws. We will ensure that individuals are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

A safe and secure environment is critical to Freddie Mac’s business. This includes employee commitment to our acceptable use policy, applying a vigilance-first approach to work, supporting regulatory mandates, and using best practices to protect Freddie Mac from potential threats and risk. Employees exercise this responsibility by executing against policies and procedures and adhering to privacy & security obligations as required via training programs.

CA Applicants: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Notice to External Search Firms: Freddie Mac partners with BountyJobs for contingency search business through outside firms. Resumes received outside the BountyJobs system will be considered unsolicited and Freddie Mac will not be obligated to pay a placement fee. If interested in learning more, please visit www.BountyJobs.com and register with our referral code: MAC.

Time-type:Full time

FLSA Status:Exempt

Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.

This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $145,000 - $217,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.

Salary : $145,000 - $217,000

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