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# AWS Cloud Engineer

- **Company:** Gridiron IT Solutions LLC
- **Location:** Herndon, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $260,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Continuous Integration, Identity and Access Management, AWS Cdk, Delivery Pipeline, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Gitlab, Cloudformation, Amazon Relational Database Service, Containerization, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Cloud Optimization, Terraform, Serverless Computing, Microservices
- **Published:** October 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/2_166639840

## About the Role

We are seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Developer to lead cloud migrations and application modernization initiatives. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure, microservices, containers, serverless technologies, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code., Required: Active TS/SCI clearance and strong hands-on AWS engineering experience.

Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. TS/SCI CI Poly is required.

## Description

* Execute cloud migrations including lift-and-shift, re-platforming, and re-architecting.
 * Modernize applications through microservices, containerization, and serverless architectures.
 * Design and manage AWS environments using EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, and CloudFormation/CDK.
 * Build and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, Terraform, AWS CDK, CodePipeline, and related tools.
 * Work closely with customer teams to provide technical guidance, mentorship, and knowledge transfer.
 * Help establish cloud best practices, automation, security, and operational standards.