Come join our growing team and make a difference every day! AnaVation is seeking an experienced Mid-level Cloud Developer responsible for designing and implementing cloud service delivery models and the architectural framework to enable Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Data as a Service (DaaS). This role will drive automation using DevSecOps best practices, guide application migration to the cloud, and ensure secure, resilient, and cost-optimized cloud solutions.
Key responsibilities include:
- Develop and maintain cloud service delivery models and architectural frameworks to support PaaS, IaaS, SaaS, and DaaS solutions.
- Implement automation for cloud resources following DevSecOps best practices (CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, security scanning, etc.).
- Analyze applications and workloads to determine cloud readiness and provide recommendations on migration, refactoring, and deployment strategies.
- Assess and recommend which platforms and applications can move, migrate, and/or be deployed into public, private, or hybrid cloud environments.
- Define and implement strategies for failure/recovery, business continuity, and disaster recovery in the cloud.
- Drive cloud cost optimization activities, including right-sizing, licensing considerations, and usage monitoring, and provide benefit analyses of cloud, cloud-agnostic, and on-premise services.
- Design, develop, and implement cloud-native applications; migrate existing on-premises applications to cloud platforms.
- Debug and troubleshoot cloud stacks and services across multiple environments.
- Ensure high availability and uptime by designing resilient architectures and monitoring strategies.
Required Qualifications:
- 4+ years with experience major cloud service providers (i.e.: Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, or Google).
- Experience performing development and deployment activities on a private/public cloud solution or a comparable high availability environment.
- Deploying and managing infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, and/or Azure ARMs Templates.
- Implementing and maintaining security best practices for cloud environments.
- Creating and maintaining comprehensive documentation for cloud architecture, configurations, and processes
- Must be able to work full-time on-site at our customer location in Washington, DC.
- Active Top Secret (TS) clearance
Education: A bachelor’s in Engineering, Computer Science, or other related analytical, scientific, or technical discipline
Required Skills/Certs:
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with cloud-native application design (microservices, containers, serverless).
- Familiarity with containerization platforms (Docker, Kubernetes) and related orchestration tools.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools for cloud environments (e.g., CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Stackdriver, ELK/OpenSearch).
- Knowledge of cost management tools and FinOps practices.
- Relevant cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, Google Professional Cloud Architect).
- Generous cost sharing for medical insurance for the employee and dependents
- 100% company paid dental insurance for employees and dependents
- 100% company paid long-term and short-term disability insurance
- 100% company paid vision insurance for employees and dependents
- 401k plan with generous match and 100% immediate vesting
- Competitive Pay
- Generous paid leave and holiday package
- Tuition and training reimbursement
- Life and AD&D Insurance
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related analytical, scientific, or technical discipline
- 4+ years of experience with major cloud service providers such as Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, or Google
- Experience performing development and deployment activities on a private or public cloud solution, or comparable high-availability environment
- Experience deploying and managing infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, and/or Azure ARM Templates
- Experience implementing and maintaining cloud security best practices
- Ability to create and maintain comprehensive documentation for cloud architecture, configurations, and processes
- Ability to work full-time on-site at the customer location in Washington, DC
- Active Top Secret clearance
- Experience with cloud-native application design, including microservices, containers, or serverless architectures
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and related orchestration tools
- Experience with cloud monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Stackdriver, ELK, or OpenSearch
- Knowledge of cloud cost management tools and FinOps practices
- Relevant cloud certifications, such as AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, or Google Professional Cloud Architect
What We Do
AnaVation is a trusted partner that delivers high-value, cost-effective solutions to solve our customers’ most complex technical and analytical problems. AnaVation believes that the future of securing, collecting, processing, and analyzing cyber data will require the development of advanced ANAlytical technologies derived via the innoVATION of current and future technologies. AnaVation believes in the “Idea of the Possible” — that it is possible for our experts, partnering with our customers in the right environment, to create innovative technical solutions that expand our customers’ capabilities. We want to do two things for our customers. We want to resolve existing challenges and we want to prepare them for the future. Our technical expertise and innovative engineering culture enable us to do those things.
