Job Title: Senior AWS Cloud Engineer
Job Category: Information Technology
Time Type: Full time
Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI with Polygraph
Employee Type: Regular
Percentage of Travel Required: None
Type of Travel: None
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The Opportunity:
CACI is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer to lead the design, implementation, modernization, and optimization of enterprise-scale cloud environments supporting mission-critical programs. This role is ideal for a seasoned cloud professional who combines deep AWS expertise with strong Infrastructure as Code, automation, and cloud architecture experience.
As a senior member of the team, you will serve as a technical leader responsible for driving cloud engineering best practices, influencing architectural decisions, mentoring engineers, and developing scalable, secure, and resilient cloud solutions. You will collaborate closely with cybersecurity, DevOps, software engineering, and program leadership teams to deliver innovative solutions that advance mission objectives.
If you are passionate about cloud transformation, automation, operational excellence, and solving complex technical challenges at scale, we invite you to help shape the future of our cloud capabilities.
Responsibilities:
Lead the architecture, design, deployment, and optimization of AWS cloud environments supporting production and mission-critical workloads.
Develop and implement scalable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, including reusable modules, version-controlled deployments, and automation frameworks.
Serve as a cloud subject matter expert, providing technical leadership and guidance across engineering teams.
Design and implement secure, resilient, and highly available cloud-native platforms that align with organizational security and compliance requirements.
Lead cloud migration, modernization, and transformation initiatives across legacy and cloud-native environments.
Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure delivery and improve deployment velocity.
Establish and maintain cloud governance standards, reference architectures, and engineering best practices.
Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and recommend solutions that improve scalability, operational efficiency, security, and cost effectiveness.
Drive observability strategies through monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance optimization initiatives.
Conduct root cause analysis for complex infrastructure incidents and implement long-term corrective actions.
Partner with cybersecurity teams to strengthen cloud security posture, IAM governance, vulnerability remediation, and compliance efforts.
Mentor junior and mid-level engineers while fostering a culture of automation, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Support production operations and provide technical leadership during critical incident response activities.
Qualifications
Required:
Active TS/SCI w/ polygraph security clearance
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field; equivalent experience may be substituted.
8+ years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or related technical disciplines.
5+ years of hands-on AWS experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise cloud environments.
Extensive experience with AWS services including: EC2 VPC IAM Route 53 S3 RDS Lambda ECS/EKS CloudWatch ALB/NLB CloudTrail Config Organizations KMS Security Hub GuardDuty
Advanced Terraform experience, including modular design, state management, automation, and enterprise-scale Infrastructure as Code practices.
Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.
Deep understanding of cloud networking, DNS, load balancing, network segmentation, and hybrid-cloud architectures.
Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting experience.
Experience implementing monitoring, logging,…