• AWS GovCloud Engineer

    Insight Global (Clayton, MO)


    Job Description

    An employer is looking to add an AWS GovCloud Engineer to their team. This person will be responsible for architecting, implementing, and managing secure AWS GovCloud environments, ensuring all solutions are CMMC Level 2 compliant and meet federal security standards.

     

    They will design and deploy AWS GovCloud infrastructure using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring CMMC L2 controls, manage AWS GovCloud services (IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudTrail, GuardDuty) with a focus on compliance, and automate provisioning and enforce security, compliance, and governance policies per CMMC L2. They will collaborate with teams for secure application deployment and platform scalability, and troubleshoot infrastructure issues and optimize for performance and compliance. This person will be responsible for providing architectural guidance for secure, scalable, and resilient AWS GovCloud solutions, and designing and implementing secure networking, high availability, and disaster recovery for government workloads.

     

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    Skills and Requirements

     

    5+ years of AWS infrastructure engineering (preferably in government or regulated sectors)

     

    Proficiency with Terraform/CloudFormation, Python/Bash, and DevOps tools (CodePipeline, Jenkins, GitLab)

     

    Strong understanding of AWS networking, IAM, and security best practices for government workloads

     

    Experience with container orchestration (EKS, ECS) in regulated environments Active Secret clearance

     

    AWS Professional Certification (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer)

     

    Experience with hybrid/multi-cloud in government settings

     

    Familiarity with AWS GovCloud, FedRAMP, and CMMC frameworks

     

    Strong communication/documentation skills for compliance

     

    Ability to mentor junior engineers and contribute to secure platform strategy