What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Engineer position at VTG Defense?
Overview
What will you do?
Do you have what it takes?
VT Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.
VTG is seeking a talented and experienced Cloud Engineer to join our dynamic and innovative team in Herndon, VA and/or Springfield, VA.
What will you do?
- Design and implement enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure using AWS CDK and Infrastructure as Code principles
- Architect and develop robust microservices architectures with focus on scalability, performance, and maintainability
- Build and optimize data engineering pipelines for large-scale data processing and analytics workloads
- Lead full-stack development initiatives using modern JavaScript/TypeScript and Python frameworks
- Implement advanced cloud-native solutions leveraging serverless architectures and event-driven patterns
- Drive technical excellence through code reviews, architectural decisions, and engineering best practices
- Solve complex technical challenges across distributed systems and provide innovative solutions to business problems
Do you have what it takes?
- TS/SCI with Poly required with current Customer eligibility and SBU/SECNet/COE accounts
- Must be willing to work in SCIF daily or as needed
- 7 years of professional software engineering experience with cloud-first development approach
- 5 years of hands-on experience with AWS CDK for Infrastructure as Code
- 3 years building complex, reusable CDK constructs and stacks
- 3 years implementing multi-environment deployment strategies using CDK
Preferred Qualifications
- 4 years of experience with Authority to Operate (ATO) processes in government environments
- Implementation of NIST 800-53 controls and FedRAMP compliance requirements
- Security automation and continuous compliance monitoring
- 3 years of experience with advanced data analytics and machine learning platforms
- AWS SageMaker, Databricks, or similar ML/AI platforms
- Model deployment and MLOps pipeline development
- Database expertise across multiple platforms
- Performance tuning and optimization for RDS, DynamoDB, MongoDB
- Data modeling for both relational and NoSQL databases
- DevSecOps and security automation experience
- Integration of security scanning tools (SonarQube, Snyk, Checkmarx)
- Secrets management and secure coding practices
- System design and architecture experience
- Designing for high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity
- Performance optimization and cost management strategies
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools
- CloudWatch, DataDog, New Relic, or Prometheus/Grafana stacks
- Distributed tracing and application performance monitoring
- Leadership experience in technical environments
- Leading cross-functional teams and technical initiatives
- Experience with agile methodologies and project delivery
- Additional programming language proficiency (Go, Java, C#)
- Open source contribution history and active participation in technical communities
VT Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.