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Lead Cloud Engineer

Fannie Mae


Job Location:

Reston, VA - USA

Yearly Salary: $ 141000 - 184000
Posted: 22 August 2026 (18 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 19 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Playing an essential role in the U.S. economy Fannie Mae is foundational to housing finance. Here your expertise can help fuel purpose-driven innovation that expands access to homeownership and affordable rental housing across the country. Join Fannie Mae to grow your career and help people find a place to call home.

Job Description

As a valued contributor to our team you will design and develop unprecedented solutions forCloudEngineeringsolving complex or unusual business problems across several projects programs or products. This work includesarchitecture designcoding testing and certifying technology platforms software and applications.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE

The ideal candidate brings extensive experience in team building collaboration and facilitation of Cloudengineeringin a large multinational Fortune 500 enterprise. Thisindividualwillpossessextensiveexperience in secure scalable cloud infrastructure with proven leadership this rolethey will managelarge-scale public cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP).

The Lead Cloud Engineer role will offer the flexibility to make each day your own while working alongside people who care so that you can deliver on the following responsibilities:

  • Design and implement cloud strategies and architectures.

  • Build robust and modern solutionswithhands-oncoding

  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align cloud solutions with business goals.

  • Stay current with cloud technologies and industry trends.

  • Mentorjuniorengineers.

  • Ensure integration of cloud solutions with existing systems.

  • Identifyand mitigate risks; troubleshoot complex issues.

  • Advocate for cloud best practices and standards.

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Minimum Required Experiences

  • 4 years

  • Shows curiosity and adaptability in learning and responsibly applying new technologies including artificial intelligence to reimagine how we work.

Desired Experiences

  • Bachelor degree or equivalent

  • Cloud Certifications

  • Experience working in mission-critical environments

TechnicalSkills

  • Skilled in engineering resilienthighly availablecloud solutions insecuremulti-cloud environmentse.g.AWS Azure GCP

  • Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure network architecture security and identity management.

  • Experience inbuilding cloud environments (accounts and VPCs) and software-defined networking that allows for connectivity across the enterprise platforms

  • Ability to designFault Tolerant platformsand implement Failover and Recovery Strategies

  • Skilled in DevOps and modern CI/CD methodologies and tools

  • Automating cloud orchestrationwithInfrastructure as Code (IaC)toscale services

  • Experience with Cloud-native development frameworks and toolse.g.VPC Lambda SNS

  • Understanding of modern cloud scalability to right-size resources to meet platforms computing needs

  • Analytics and KPI usage to continuously evolve and improve Cloud Platforms

  • Knowledgeable ofmodern cloud architecture and holistic developer experience.

Soft Skills

  • Ability to train and develop mid-senior level engineers

  • Strong understanding of mission-critical environments

  • Strong problem solving critical thinking and analytical skills


Tools

  • Public Cloud Services:AWS

  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC):TerraformCloudFormation JSON YAMLandARM Templates

  • Programing/Scripting:Shell ScriptPython PHP JavaScript Perl Ruby and AWS step functions

  • OS:Linux

  • DevOps Practices: Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)

  • Networking: Understanding cloud network architecture VPCsandload balancing

  • Security: Implementing security best practices access controlanddata encryption

  • Compliance: Adhering to industry regulations and compliance standards

Cloud Infrastructure - Technology Engineering - Lead Associate

Target Salary: $141000 to $184000 a year

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Qualifications

Education:

Bachelors Level Degree (Required)

The future is what you make it to be. Discover compelling opportunities at most roles employees are expected to work onsite on a regular basis at their designated office -office work cadence is determined by your manager. Proximity within a reasonable commute to your designated office location is preferred unless the job is noted as open to remote.


Fannie Mae is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability age sexual orientation gender identity/gender expression marital or parental status or any other protected factor. Fannie Mae is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who are employees or applicants for employment unless to do so would cause undue hardship to the company. If you need assistance using our online system and/or you need a reasonable accommodation related to the hiring/application process please complete this form.

The hiring range for this role is set forth below. Final salaries will generally vary within that range based on factors that include but are not limited to skill set depth of experience certifications and other relevant qualifications. This position is eligible to participate in a Fannie Mae incentive program (subject to the terms of the program). As part of our comprehensive benefits package Fannie Mae offers a broad range of Health Life Voluntary Lifestyle and other benefits and perks that enhance an employees physical mental emotional and financial well-being. See more here.

Requisition compensation:

141000

to

184000

Required Experience:

IC


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