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# Cloud Engineer

- **Company:** Elevate Technology Group
- **Location:** Vienna, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $210,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Active Directory, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Bash Shell, CentOS, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Linux, DevOps, Domain Name System (DNS), Perl (Programming Language), Python (Programming Language), Lightweight Directory Access Protocols (LDAP), Linux System Administration, Network File Systems, Performance Tuning, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ruby, Scripting, Cloud Platform System, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Git, Containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Docker
- **Published:** October 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.disabledperson.com/jobs/75929790-cloud-engineer

## About the Role

* Strong hands-on AWS experience
 * Experience building AWS infrastructure, rather than simply supporting an existing environment
 * Strong Linux knowledge
 * Scripting experience in Bash, Python or similar
 * Kubernetes experience highly preferred
 * Docker/containerization experience
 * Mid-to-senior level engineering experience

This position is fully onsite and requires an active Top Secret clearance or higher.

Keywords: Cloud Systems Engineer, Cloud Engineer, AWS Engineer, AWS Cloud Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Linux Systems Engineer, Linux Engineer, DevOps Engineer, AWS, Amazon Web Services, EC2, VPC, Linux, Red Hat, RHEL, CentOS, Kubernetes, K8s, Docker, Bash, Python, Perl, Ruby, Automation, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Native, Infrastructure Automation, Git, DNS, LDAP, Active Directory, NFS, Networking, Top Secret, TS Clearance, TS/SCI, Security Clearance, Cleared Engineer, Cleared Cloud Engineer, Fairfax VA, Northern Virginia, NoVA, Denver CO, Colorado

## Description

This is a hands-on role focused on building and maintaining cloud-native AWS environments, working across Linux infrastructure, automation, scripting and containerization., * Build and maintain cloud-native environments within AWS

 * Build and configure AWS services including EC2, VPC and related infrastructure
 * Manage and troubleshoot Linux environments
 * Develop scripts and automate repetitive infrastructure tasks
 * Support automated OS and cloud infrastructure deployments
 * Work with Kubernetes and Docker
 * Support system security, hardening, monitoring and performance tuning
 * Troubleshoot networking and wider infrastructure issues

The wider environment includes Linux, cloud virtualization, automated infrastructure deployment, networking, scripting and container technologies.