Principal Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities & Qualifications

RESPONSIBILITIES

• 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 within Kion 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

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 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

• Professional Architect Certification within either AWS or Azure

• Hands-on experience installing, configuring, upgrading, and administering Kion in AWS environments, including organizational units, account structures, projects, compliance scores, financial guardrails, and cloud provider integrations (AWS, Azure, OCI, and GCP).

• Experience with AWS FinOps tools, including AWS Billing Conductor, Cost Explorer, cloud cost allocation, and identifying resource waste and cost optimization opportunities.

• Hands-on experience developing AWS CloudFormation Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates for automated infrastructure deployment.

• Experience managing and optimizing AWS services, including Amazon ECS, Application Load Balancers (ALB), and Amazon RDS, with responsibility for scaling, high availability, patching, and performance optimization.

• Experience managing AWS Commercial and GovCloud environments across multiple regions.

• Understanding of FedRAMP requirements, cloud governance, and cloud engineering best practices in AWS and multi-cloud environments.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with DevOps, Cloud Engineering, and cross-functional teams to deliver cloud solutions.

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments, including sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives, and documenting requirements, user stories, and use cases.

• Strong understanding of cloud architecture, infrastructure automation, and operational best practices across enterprise cloud environments.

Overview

We are seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer to join our team.

TekSynap is a fast-growing high-tech company that understands both the pace of technology today and the need to have a comprehensive well planned information management environment. “Technology moving at the speed of thought” embodies these principles – the need to nimbly utilize the best that information technology offers to meet the business needs of our Federal Government customers.

We offer our full-time employees a competitive benefits package to include health, dental, vision, 401K, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability plans, vacation time and holidays.

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Additional Job Information

WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Location: Washington, DC

• Type of environment: Office

• Noise level: Medium

• Work schedule: Schedule is day shift Monday – Friday. May be requested to work evenings and weekends to meet program and contract needs.

• Amount of Travel: Less than 10%

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to grip, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is regularly required to lift up to 10 pounds.

The employee is frequently required to lift up to 25 pounds; and up to 50 pounds. The vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK AUTHORIZATION/SECURITY CLEARANCE

• Candidate must be a U.S. Citizen

• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust

WAGE INFORMATION

Target salary range: $160,000.00 - $190,000.00. The salary range displayed is an estimate only and is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, and will be determined on several factors regarding the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies and experience, as well as contract parameters and organizational requirements. The displayed salary is one component of the total compensation package for employees.

OTHER INFORMATION

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

TekSynap is a drug-free workplace. We reserve the right to conduct drug testing in accordance with federal, state, and local laws. All employees and candidates may be subject to drug screening if deemed necessary to ensure a safe and compliant working environment.

Many positions require specific certifications and/or the ability to obtain a security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens. Applicants who accept an offer of employment may be subject to investigations performed by TekSynap and/or the Government to verify the candidate meets the required qualifications and other eligibility requirements.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. TekSynap does not discriminate against any person because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, national origin, disability, age, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law (referred to as “protected status”). This nondiscrimination policy extends to all terms, conditions, and privileges of employment as well as the use of all company facilities, participation in all company-sponsored activities, and all employment actions such as promotions, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment.

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Job Locations US-DC-Washington

ID 2026-9497

Category Cloud

Type Regular Full-Time