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Job ID: 2511764
Location: WASHINGTON, DC, US
Date Posted: 2025-11-20
Category: Information Technology
Subcategory: Cloud Comp Engr
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: No
Minimum Clearance Required: None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust
Potential for Remote Work: No
Description
SAIC is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer role in support of our Department of Transportation (DOT) contract for EITSS Infrastructure support. This is an onsite role, you will be required to work at DOT HQ in Washington, DC a full five days
Duties Included: providing technical, managerial, and administrative direction for problem definition, analysis, requirements development and implementation for complex to extremely complex systems within cloud infrastructure. Troubleshoots cloud performance issues. Analyzes network traffic and provides capacity planning solutions.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications, Skills, Experience or Certifications:
SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .
Location: WASHINGTON, DC, US
Date Posted: 2025-11-20
Category: Information Technology
Subcategory: Cloud Comp Engr
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: No
Minimum Clearance Required: None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust
Potential for Remote Work: No
Description
SAIC is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer role in support of our Department of Transportation (DOT) contract for EITSS Infrastructure support. This is an onsite role, you will be required to work at DOT HQ in Washington, DC a full five days
Duties Included: providing technical, managerial, and administrative direction for problem definition, analysis, requirements development and implementation for complex to extremely complex systems within cloud infrastructure. Troubleshoots cloud performance issues. Analyzes network traffic and provides capacity planning solutions.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications, Skills, Experience or Certifications:
- 12 years' experience in information technology WITH 8 years of focused, HANDS-ON experience deploying/configuring workloads within EITHER AWS or Azure - preferred experience is DevOps focused
- Experience designing and implementing cloud architectures
- Good understanding of FedRAMP services and best practices for their consumption
- Experience managing AWS Public and GovCloud across regions
- Experience deploying stack sets and using AWS Control Tower
- Strong knowledge of enterprise computing and operating systems such as Linux and Windows, and experience with troubleshooting
- Proficiency in automating processes with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Packer, PowerShell, or Python, including use of remote APIs
- Demonstrated proficiency with implementing and managing AWS services via AWS Console or CLI of AWS accounts, IAM users, IAM roles, VPCs, and load balancers
- Demonstrated understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices across cloud service providers
- Knowledge of Agile Project Management methodologies
- Experience documenting requirements, user stories, and use cases
- Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and team environment
- Professional Architect Certification within EITHER AWS or Azure
- Producing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or Configuration as Code (CaC), delivering solutions with a code first approach with sufficient comments and structure
- Collaborating with engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions
- Diagnosing and resolving complex performance, security, and/or technical challenges
- Supporting all tiers of applications deployed in the cloud, configuring network, cloud native services, infrastructure, and privileges for development teams
- Identifying opportunities for optimizing cloud consumption by the agency and providing strategic direction for addressing those opportunities
- Creating/updating cloud environment configurations to establish/support application workloads, including:
- Azure Focused: Configuration of Subscriptions, Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, load balancers, App Services, Azure Batch, Virtual Machines, resource tagging, billing, policy implementation, and security controls
- AWS Focused: Configuration of AWS Accounts, IAM Users and Roles, VPCs, subnets, load balancers, Network routes, Transit Gateway, Control Tower, Systems Manager, Config Manager, stack sets, WAF, CloudFront, and Route53
SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .
Salary : $160,001 - $200,000