Cloud System Engineer III - AWS DevSecOps

The remote Cloud System Engineer III - AWS DevSecOps & GitLab CI/CD will serve as a senior, hands-on cloud engineer responsible for designing, building, securing, and optimizing CI/CD capabilities within a modern AWS environment in a remote work arrangement.

This role combines deep AWS engineering expertise with advanced Git, GitLab CI/CD, automation, and DevSecOps experience. The successful candidate will architect reusable delivery pipelines, manage GitLab runners and repository workflows, automate cloud deployments, integrate security controls into the software delivery lifecycle, and help engineering teams adopt consistent cloud-native development practices.

The ideal candidate is not simply a CI/CD administrator. You should be comfortable working deeply within AWS, troubleshooting cloud infrastructure and deployment issues, designing secure delivery patterns, and using Git and GitLab as core components of enterprise software engineering.

Success in this role means creating secure, scalable, and reliable delivery platforms that allow engineering teams to build, test, and deploy applications into AWS quickly and consistently while maintaining strong security, governance, and operational standards., The Cloud System Engineer III will provide senior technical leadership for AWS-based DevSecOps and GitLab CI/CD engineering, supporting secure application development and automated cloud deployment., * Architect, build, maintain, and optimize enterprise GitLab CI/CD pipelines supporting application build, testing, security validation, and deployment into AWS.

• Serve as a senior technical resource for AWS cloud engineering, CI/CD architecture, GitLab, Git workflows, and automated deployment practices.
• Design standardized, reusable GitLab pipeline templates, modules, and deployment patterns that can be adopted across multiple applications and engineering teams.
• Configure, manage, scale, and troubleshoot GitLab runners and supporting infrastructure.
• Design and maintain Git-based software-development workflows, including repository structure, branching strategies, merge requests, code-review practices, protected branches, and release processes.
• Integrate GitLab CI/CD with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, IAM, and related cloud services.
• Design secure AWS deployment architectures incorporating IAM, networking, access controls, secrets management, and cloud security best practices.
• Automate cloud infrastructure and application deployments using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or comparable Infrastructure as Code technologies.
• Implement automated testing, quality gates, security scanning, vulnerability detection, artifact management, and other DevSecOps controls throughout the CI/CD lifecycle.
• Support containerized application deployments using Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, and/or Amazon EKS.
• Troubleshoot complex AWS, GitLab, Git, pipeline, runner, infrastructure, networking, IAM, and application deployment issues.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and reliability issues within pipelines and cloud deployment workflows and implement improvements.
• Partner with developers, cloud engineers, security teams, architects, and other stakeholders to establish scalable engineering and deployment standards.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineering teams using GitLab, Git, AWS, Infrastructure as Code, and modern DevSecOps practices.
• Establish technical standards, documentation, operational procedures, and reusable engineering patterns.
• Evaluate technical requirements, identify risks, and recommend appropriate AWS architecture and deployment approaches.
• Develop tools and automation that improve developer productivity, deployment reliability, security, and operational consistency.
• Support continuous improvement of AWS cloud architecture, CI/CD tooling, Git workflows, and software delivery practices.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Senior-level, hands-on experience engineering and supporting production workloads within AWS.
• 6+ years of demonstrated hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD, including pipelines, runners, GitLab configuration, and deployment automation.
• Advanced hands-on experience with Git, including branching strategies, merge requests, source-control workflows, repository management, and release processes.
• Demonstrated experience designing and building production CI/CD pipelines used to build, test, secure, and deploy applications.
• Strong experience integrating CI/CD pipelines with AWS environments and services.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services, IAM, networking, security, and secure application deployment patterns.
• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, IAM, and related cloud technologies.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or comparable technologies.
• Experience implementing automated testing, security scanning, quality gates, and other DevSecOps controls within CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of software-development lifecycles, version-control strategies, release management, and cloud-native deployment practices.
• Experience troubleshooting complex AWS infrastructure, GitLab pipeline, runner, networking, IAM, and deployment issues.
• Ability to design clean, maintainable, reusable CI/CD templates and automation.
• Strong technical communication, documentation, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance., * Experience with Docker and containerized application environments.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, and/or Amazon ECS.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices within regulated or federal cloud environments.
• Experience with SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, container scanning, secrets detection, or other automated security tooling.
• Experience with artifact repositories and software package-management workflows.
• Experience managing GitLab environments supporting multiple development teams or applications.
• Experience mentoring engineers on Git, GitLab, CI/CD, AWS, and cloud-native software-development practices.
• Relevant AWS, GitLab, Kubernetes, or DevOps certifications.
• Experience working within federal government, government contracting, or other highly regulated technology environments.

Work Authorization / Security Clearance Requirements

• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance., Do you have senior-level, hands-on experience engineering and supporting production workloads in AWS?* YesNo Do you have at least 6 years of hands-on professional experience with GitLab CI/CD, including pipelines, runners, configuration, and deployment automation?* YesNo Have you personally designed, built, and maintained production CI/CD pipelines used to build, test, and deploy applications into AWS?* YesNo Do you have advanced hands-on experience using Git, including branching strategies, merge requests, repository management, code-review workflows, and release processes?* YesNo Do you have hands-on experience using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or another Infrastructure as Code technology to provision or deploy AWS infrastructure?* YesNo

Invitation for Job Applicants to Self-Identify as a U.S. Veteran

• A “disabled veteran” is one of the following:
• a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or
• a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.
• A “recently separated veteran” means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran’s discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.
• An “active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran” means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.
• An “Armed forces service medal veteran” means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.