Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer

General Information

Requisition #679

Locations USA-VA-Arlington

Posting Date 03/17/2026

Security Clearance Required - Public Trust

Remote Type Hybrid

Time Type Full time

Description & Requirements

Elder Research Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of MANTECH international Corporation seeks a motivated career and customer-oriented Junior Cloud Developer to join our team in Arlington VA. This position is hybrid with 1-4 days a month on site.

We are seeking a motivated Junior Cloud Developer to join our cloud infrastructure this role you will design deploy and maintain scalable cloud solutions on AWS with a strong focus on Infrastructure as Code using AWS CloudFormation. You will work alongside senior engineers to build containerized workloads on ECS Fargate package Python applications as production-grade Docker images and contribute to a culture of operational excellence through observability automation and secure-by-default practices.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• CloudFormation & Infrastructure as Code (Primary)
  • Author review and maintain CloudFormation stacks for ECS clusters services task definitions ALBs Target Groups IAM roles/policies and ECR repositories while parameterizing stacks for portability across dev staging and production and ensuring compliance with organizational standards security baselines and ACES/CCoE governance patterns.
  • Implement drift detection manage stack updates and utilize StackSets where appropriate; participate in stack reviews to ensure consistency security and reusability of infrastructure templates.
• ECS Fargate
  • Design and deploy Fargate services using awsvpc networking task roles and service-level autoscaling including configuration of ALB routing target groups health checks and deployment strategies such as blue/green and canary releases.
  • Define and maintain service-level observability using CloudWatch Logs CloudWatch Metrics and Alarms and AWS X-Ray tracing.
• Docker & Python
  • Convert Python projects into production-grade Docker images using multi-stage builds slim base images and reproducible build patterns and publish/manage images in Amazon ECR following tagging and lifecycle policy standards.
  • Configure runtime settings and secrets via AWS Parameter Store and Secrets Manager enforcing least-privilege access through task rolescoped IAM policies
• Lambda (Secondary)
  • Build and maintain CloudFormation-deployed Lambda functions for lightweight control-plane tasks (e.g. policy orchestration scheduled maintenance operations) while ensuring compliance with organizational controls and tagging policies per established operating procedures.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 12 years of experience with AWS services including hands-on use of CloudFormation ECS ECR IAM and VPC networking.
• Must be a US Citizen and be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance prior to starting this position.
• Working knowledge of Docker: writing Dockerfiles building images and managing container lifecycles.
• Proficiency in Python; experience packaging Python applications for containerized deployments preferred.
• Familiarity with ALB configuration target groups listener rules and health check behavior.
• Understanding of IAM fundamentals: roles policies trust relationships and least-privilege principles.
• Basic familiarity with AWS CloudWatch for logging and monitoring.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Exposure to ECS Fargate task definitions awsvpc networking mode and service autoscaling configurations.
• Experience with blue/green or canary deployment strategies via AWS CodeDeploy or similar.
• Familiarity with AWS Parameter Store and/or Secrets Manager for runtime secret injection.
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or AWS Certified Developer Associate certification (or in progress).
• Familiarity with Lambda development and event-driven architectures.
• Typescript

Clearance Requirements:

• Must be a US Citizen and be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance prior to starting this position.

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