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About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton is a management and technology consulting firm that provides analytics, digital, engineering, and cybersecurity solutions primarily to U.S. government agencies and commercial clients. Industry: Management & Technology Consulting
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JOB TITLE: Cloud Engineer
As a Cloud Engineer, you will join a team of experienced professionals to help transform managed platforms and modernize IT infrastructure for various missions. You will collaborate with cloud architects and engineers specializing in Amazon Commercial, GovCloud, and Azure to build, evolve, maintain, and secure cloud solution components. Your daily responsibilities include creating and managing container apps within a DevOps framework using Kubernetes. You will utilize AWS CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation, and Python to write infrastructure as code and automate cost controls. Key technical skills include managing VPCs, Transit Gateway, and CI/CD pipelines, as well as analyzing billing data via AWS Cost Explorer and Azure Cost Management. You will also use AI coding assistants to validate infrastructure code while solving complex cloud computing problems.
What does a Cloud Engineer earn?
Median $152167 from 44 postings across 12 companies.
Build, evolve, maintain, and secure cloud solution components across Amazon Commercial, GovCloud, and Azure platforms.
Create and manage container applications using Kubernetes within a DevOps framework.
Write infrastructure as code using AWS CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation.
Deliver infrastructure code through pull request-based CI/CD pipelines with automated tests.
Automate infrastructure and cost controls, including lifecycle rules, tag enforcement, and budget alerts.
Optimize cloud costs through rightsizing, Savings Plans, Reserved Instance coverage, and storage lifecycle policies.
Analyze billing data using AWS Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage Reports, and Azure Cost Management.
Review and validate AI-generated infrastructure code before deployment.
What we're looking for
5+ years of experience engineering and operating cloud infrastructure in AWS, including multi-account networking with VPCs, Transit Gateway, and centralized egress.
3+ years of experience writing infrastructure as code with AWS CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation via pull request-based CI/CD pipelines.
3+ years of experience automating infrastructure and cost controls using Terraform, AWS CDK, or Python via pull request-based CI/CD pipelines.
2+ years of experience optimizing cloud costs, including rightsizing, Savings Plans, Reserved Instance coverage, and storage lifecycle policies.
Experience analyzing billing data in AWS and Azure using AWS Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage Reports, and Azure Cost Management.
Experience using AI coding assistants and validating AI-generated infrastructure code.
Bachelor’s degree in a Computer Science or Information Systems field.
DoD 8140 IAT Level II Certification such as Security+ CE Certification.