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# Cloud Systems Engineer

- **Company:** SWOOP TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Amazon Web Services, Automation of Tests, Bash Shell, CentOS, Cloud Computing, Software Quality, System Configuration, Continuous Integration, Linux, Python (Programming Language), Cloud Services, Ansible, SonarQube, Virtual Environment, Firewalls (Computer Science), Containerization, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Bare Metal, Terraform, Vulnerability Analysis, Vmware
- **Published:** November 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/cloud-systems-engineer-swoop-technologies-7581973

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience
 * 3+ yrs in cloud provisioning and management
 * Understanding of basic software security standards, CI/CD configuration, and buildout (i.e. configuring gitlab.yaml files)
 * Code containerization (reading and editing Dockerfiles); Container orchestration (Kubernetes); Provisioning (Terraform); Cloud Deployments (AWS); Resource monitoring (Promethius)
 * Linux, CentOS, Windows knowledge
 * Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting
 * Active US Security clearance OR ability and willingness to be sponsored for a US Security clearance

Bonus if you have:

 * AWS Certifications
 * Experience working in AWS gov cloud
 * Competent in networking and virtualization (firewalls, IP tables, virtual environments, containerization, VMWare, application ingress, etc).
 * Test/QA automation
 * Code quality and security scanning using tools such as SonarQube

## Description

You will work with the existing infrastructure and deployment team to automate, scale and test deployments of Swoop Technologies' products. Deployments may include secure, airgapped, on prem, remote, bare metal and cloud environments. Currently, deployments are closely tied to a gitlab CI/CD infrastructure. Day to day tasks will include spinning up and down AWS resources to support code development and testing, refining Terraform provisioning scripts, monitoring and building out profiling metrics, and securing overall cloud presence.

What You'll Do:

 * Building out automation around monitoring of cloud resource health and usage
 * Working with security engineers to ensure NIST, STIG compliance of cloud applications
 * Automation of cloud resource provisioning using Terraform and Ansible
 * Streamlining the process by which developers deploy, run and test code in cloud environments
 * Enabling appropriate cloud and orchestration scaling mechanisms to ensure ideal balance of performance and resource use efficiency
 * Support code and resource updates of client installations
 * Work with client engineers to monitor and fine tune their resources