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i3 Consulting lists this Senior Cloud Engineer opportunity in huntsville, Alabama. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Senior Cloud Engineer
Top Secret Clearance is required.
Full time on site in Huntsville, AL
I3 is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to support cloud architecture, deployment, optimization, and sustainment activities within a major federal modernization program. This role ensures secure, scalable, and high-performance cloud environments that support application, data, migration, and DevSecOps operations. The Senior Cloud Engineer collaborates with Full Stack Engineers, Data Engineers, DevSecOps teams, QA Automation, and Product teams to build and maintain resilient cloud infrastructure aligned with mission-critical requirements.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
Cloud Architecture & Engineering
Design, build, and optimize cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise applications and data pipelines
Implement cloud-native services, compute configurations, load balancing, and storage solutions
Support modernization and migration of legacy workloads into cloud environments
Ensure cloud deployments meet performance, scalability, and availability targets
Infrastructure Automation & DevSecOps Support
Develop infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tooling
Support CI/CD integration and automation for application and infrastructure deployments
Implement monitoring, logging, observability, and automated alerting
Collaborate with DevSecOps teams to maintain secure deployment pipelines
Security & Compliance
Implement cloud security controls including IAM policies, encryption, network segmentation, and auditing
Ensure adherence to federal security standards within cloud environments
Support vulnerability mitigation, patching, hardening, and continuous compliance activities
Troubleshooting & Optimization
Diagnose issues related to cloud resources, network configurations, deployments, and integrations
Perform root-cause analysis on cloud performance degradations or service interruptions
Work closely with development, testing, and migration teams to address cloud-related issues
Collaboration & Agile Delivery
Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and technical design discussions
Provide technical guidance to engineering teams and support cloud adoption best practices
Coordinate cloud activities across development, migration, testing, and operations workstreams
Documentation & Reporting
Prepare technical documentation including architecture diagrams, configuration details, SOPs, and runbooks
Provide updates on cloud performance, incidents, and optimization activities
Maintain documentation supporting audits and operational continuity
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience in cloud engineering, cloud operations, or infrastructure engineering
Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (compute, storage, networking, security, automation)
Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud automation tools
Proficiency in cloud networking, VPC design, routing, security groups, and load balancing
Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
Experience supporting federal modernization or national-security programs
Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
Familiarity with microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures
Scripting experience (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
Experience with performance tuning and cost optimization in cloud environments
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Worksite address
huntsville, AL, 35824, US
Who can apply
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