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# Cloud / System Engineering Lead (Senior)

- **Company:** Computer World Services
- **Location:** North Chicago, IL, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $190,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Systems Engineering, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Data Centers, DevOps, Domain Name System (DNS), Fault Tolerance, Subnetting, Python (Programming Language), Routing, Windows PowerShell, Cloud Services, Ansible, Storage Virtualization, Systems Architecture, Systems Integration, VCloud, VMware VSphere, Load Balancing, Cloud Platform System, HybridCloud, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloudformation, Information Technology, Route53, Cloud Migration, Api Gateway, Terraform, Virtual Private Clouds, Vmware
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=80df5c038ec6f70c

## About the Role

Required:

 * Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
 * Minimum of eight (8) years of relevant cloud engineering, systems engineering, systems architecture, infrastructure engineering, or enterprise IT experience.

Preferred:

 * Experience leading cloud or systems-engineering activities in a federal or DoD environment, including AWS GovCloud or other Government-authorized clouds.
 * Advanced experience with Amazon VPC, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, API Gateway, AWS Certificate Manager, and AWS monitoring and security services.
 * Experience planning cloud migrations, infrastructure refreshes, and modernization, and developing resilient hybrid architectures.
 * Experience with Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Python, PowerShell, or Bash, and VMware vSphere, vSAN, NSX, SRM, or VMware Cloud Foundation.
 * Knowledge of DISA STIGs, DoD RMF, NIST controls, IAVA requirements, CND Directives, and ATO support.
 * Strong technical leadership, architecture, vendor-management, and stakeholder-communication skills., * Required: Current AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer certification.
 * Preferred: AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Advanced Networking, Security, or DevOps Engineer; Microsoft Azure Administrator; VMware certification; ITIL Foundation; or equivalent credentials.

## Description

The Cloud / System Engineering Lead provides technical leadership for cloud environments, Virtual Private Clouds, DNS, load balancers, API connectivity, digital certificates, automation, and hybrid-cloud integration, working with infrastructure, network, application, cybersecurity, service-management, Government, and vendor teams to deliver secure, resilient, scalable, and supportable cloud services., * Lead engineering support for cloud operations, enterprise systems, and hybrid-cloud services, and architect secure, high-availability, fault-tolerant cloud solutions aligned with USMEPCOM mission requirements.

 * Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, and secure connectivity among cloud, on-premises, DISA-hosted, continuity, and remote environments.
 * Engineer cloud DNS services, elastic load balancers, API gateways and integrations, and digital certificates, including renewal and troubleshooting.
 * Monitor cloud availability, performance, capacity, cost, and operational risk, and resolve cloud, network, API, DNS, certificate, compute, and storage issues.
 * Provide senior technical support during outages, coordinating diagnosis, mitigation, restoration, and validation with the Outage Response Team and supporting teams, and provide root-cause input.
 * Lead preparation and execution of installations, upgrades, migrations, component refreshes, and deployments, including implementation, test, and rollback plans.
 * Ensure cloud and system components are recorded in asset, configuration, and lifecycle repositories, and support refresh, disposition, and inventory validation.
 * Develop automation and Infrastructure as Code for provisioning, configuration, deployment, and monitoring using Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, or equivalent tools.
 * Integrate cloud capabilities with VMware, software-defined data-center, COOP, and on-premises environments, and design backup, disaster-recovery, and continuity capabilities.
 * Evaluate requirements, estimate costs, and prepare concepts of operations, architecture documents, engineering designs, and service-design packages.
 * Support implementation of DISA STIGs, DoD security controls, IAVAs, CND Directives, and RMF requirements, and coordinate escalation with AWS, DISA, and vendors.
 * Maintain architecture diagrams, configurations, certificate and API records, and SOPs, and mentor cloud engineers, systems engineers, and administrators.