Senior Cloud Engineer

Description

Senior Cloud Engineer

Huntsville, AL

US Citizenship Required. Must have an Active Top Secret Clearance Required

@Orchard is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to support cloud architecture, deployment, optimization, and sustainment activities within a major federal modernization program. This role ensures secure, scalable, and high-performance cloud environments that support application, data, migration, and DevSecOps operations. The Senior Cloud Engineer collaborates with Full Stack Engineers, Data Engineers, DevSecOps teams, QA Automation, and Product teams to build and maintain resilient cloud infrastructure aligned with mission-critical requirements.

This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a high-impact National Security mission, while getting hands-on experience with cutting-edge technology.

Responsibilities:

Cloud Architecture & Engineering:

• Design, build, and optimize cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise applications and data pipelines
• Implement cloud-native services, compute configurations, load balancing, and storage solutions
• Support modernization and migration of legacy workloads into cloud environments
• Ensure cloud deployments meet performance, scalability, and availability targets

Infrastructure Automation & DevSecOps Support:

• Develop infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tooling
• Support CI/CD integration and automation for application and infrastructure deployments
• Implement monitoring, logging, observability, and automated alerting
• Collaborate with DevSecOps teams to maintain secure deployment pipelines

Security & Compliance:

• Implement cloud security controls including IAM policies, encryption, network segmentation, and auditing
• Ensure adherence to federal security standards within cloud environments
• Support vulnerability mitigation, patching, hardening, and continuous compliance activities

Troubleshooting & Optimization:

• Diagnose issues related to cloud resources, network configurations, deployments, and integrations
• Perform root-cause analysis on cloud performance degradations or service interruptions
• Work closely with development, testing, and migration teams to address cloud-related issues

Collaboration & Agile Delivery:

• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and technical design discussions
• Provide technical guidance to engineering teams and support cloud adoption best practices
• Coordinate cloud activities across development, migration, testing, and operations workstreams
• Documentation & Reporting:
• Prepare technical documentation including architecture diagrams, configuration details, SOPs, and runbooks
• Provide updates on cloud performance, incidents, and optimization activities
• Maintain documentation supporting audits and operational continuity

Required Qualifications:

• Must have an Active Top Secret Security Clearance
• U.S. Citizenship
• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience in cloud engineering, cloud operations, or infrastructure engineering
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (compute, storage, networking, security, automation)
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud automation tools
• Proficiency in cloud networking, VPC design, routing, security groups, and load balancing
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting federal modernization or national-security programs
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures
• Scripting experience (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
• Experience with performance tuning and cost optimization in cloud environments

Established in 2010, @Orchard LLC has an exceptional reputation, providing staffing solutions to time-sensitive talent scarcity issues to deliver better talent management ROI. Our specialty lies in the critical area of program talent acquisition and resource management, not in one narrow skillset, but across many areas of technical and functional delivery. To learn more about our other exciting opportunities, visit our Jobs Page at