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# Cloud Engineer - Secret Clearance

- **Company:** The Joule
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, SAP (Applications), Cloud Platform System, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Gitlab-ci, Hashicorp, Terraform, Devsecops
- **Published:** August 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/08186cee-b069-4e70-a2a4-2e8989e4bf00

## About the Role

* AWS SAA certification minimum (AWS SAP preferred)
 * AWS Security Specialty certification strongly preferred
 * HashiCorp Terraform Associate
 * DoD 8570/8140 IAT II certification
 * Federal experience with DoD cloud environments essential
 * SCCA-compliant design experience strongly preferred

## Description

* Onsite @ Pentagon 2-days/week, clearance: Secret
 * Build Landing Zone including AWS Organizations, SCPs, account vending, KMS, monitoring stack, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
 * Develop and maintain DevSecOps pipeline
 * Design and implement AWS GovCloud solutions (specifically AWS GovCloud, noting that commercial AWS is not the same)
 * Proficiency with Terraform, including module design and remote state management
 * Design AWS Organizations and Service Control Policies (SCPs)
 * Configure IAM Identity Center
 * Manage AWS networking components such as Transit Gateway (TGW), VPC, VDSS/VDMS
 * Design Key Management Service (KMS) Customer Master Key (CMK)
 * Employ AWS security services including GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudTrail, Inspector, Config
 * Use GitLab CI/CD for automation
 * Implement OPA/Sentinel policy-as-code
 * Utilize Python and Bash scripting
 * Demonstrate familiarity with DISA Cloud Computing SRG


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