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Cloud Engineer

Rubicon Grp, LLC
Alexandria, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/13/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/13/2026

Title: Cloud Engineer

Location: Alexandria, VA

Clearance: TS/SCI with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph

Description: The Cloud Engineer provides technical cloud engineering delivery leadership supporting a WAN/LAN transformation driven by a Telco-based approach. Responsible for designing, developing, and collaborating on new initiatives to increase customer network stability, reliability, and interoperability using a Hybrid and Multi-cloud architecture and a GitOps approach.

Job Details:

  • Match customer requirements to advanced capabilities in the VNF/CNF space
  • Implement, maintain, and design hybrid multi-cloud environments
  • Design, develop, build, and deploy highly scalable, fault-tolerant, elastic and secure cloud-based and distributed services
  • Lead decisions about cloud, non-cloud, and hybrid environments
  • Administer prototype environments to compare other architectures and recommend styles that balance competing tradeoffs
  • Document cloud environments for internal and customer needs (architecture, costs, CI/CD design, testing, etc.)
  • Build end-to-end user service-oriented products, testing and integrating them with a mixture of distributed COTS and Open Source custom applications
  • Work with various cloud-based architectures (public, private, and hybrid)
  • Integrate external and internal cloud systems with non-cloud on-premise networks, allowing for secure communication between the systems in support of WAN and LAN transformation efforts

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited institute in an area applicable to the position; an additional 4 years of may be substituted in lieu of a degree
  • Minimum of eight (8) years of directly related experience in addition to education level
  • Experience in WAN/LAN, Telco, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments
  • Experience with containerization platforms and cloud-native technologies
  • Ability to concentrate on a wide range of loosely defined complex situations, which require creativity and originality, where guidance and counsel may be unavailable
  • Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management tooling such as Terraform and Ansible
  • Background in Linux/Unix administration
  • Experience with working in DoD environments and with the authorization process
  • Knowledge of Agile methodologies and DevSecOps for designing, developing, and delivering using appropriate automation techniques or tools
  • Ability to work through challenging security requirements and maintain compliance
  • Must possess current DoD 8570 IAT/IAM III certification; AWS Cloud OR Microsoft Azure OR VMWare OR Red Hat OpenShift desired
  • Current active TS/SCI clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph

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