Everforth ECS is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to work remotely.
Everforth ECS is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to join a growing Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, and AI/ML team in support of a government multi-cloud environment with 50+ customer tenants and growing. The Cloud Platform Engineer will support all phases of development, design, modernization, and rapid development of cloud solutions in Azure and AWS GovCloud. The successful candidate will be comfortable working with complex, mission-critical systems and will bring both technical depth in Azure and AWS GovCloud services and adaptability to help shape the modernization journey. This role will serve as an engineer to support the development and infrastructure teams, ensuring that all cloud solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with business objectives.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Provide subject matter expertise using best practices for designing cloud-based and hybrid solutions. Consulting, designing, and implementation of complex cloud solutions using Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud services, ensuring high availability, performance, and security.
- Develop proofs of concept and MVPs of Azure and AWS services to solve current challenges.
- Develop and maintain cloud architecture standards, best practices, and security guidelines for cloud adoption and migration.
- Provision, manage, and set up monitoring in Azure and AWS cloud services/systems to support
- Build and improve GitLab CI/CD pipelines to automate application and infrastructure deployments.
- Experience with deploying cloud serverless technologies and components such as Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions, Amazon EC2, Amazon EKS.
- Familiarity with Azure and AWS data storage such as Azure Blob storage, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Files, Amazon S3, Elastic Block Store (EBS).
- Support design of secure cloud architecture, ensuring system components maintain strict compliance with ATO requirements and security frameworks (NIST/FedRAMP).
- Implement cloud security best practices, including identity and access management, network security, and data encryption
- Conduct risk assessments and audits to identify and address vulnerabilities in the cloud environment
- Continuously monitor and optimize the performance and cost-efficiency of cloud solutions
- Lead troubleshooting efforts for complex issues, ensuring minimal impact to the organization and driving root cause analysis
Salary Range: $130,000 - $140,000
General Description of Benefits
Preferred Qualifications- US Citizenship required - Ability to obtain a DHS Public Trust Security Clearance
- Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of related cloud engineering experience.
- Experience supporting Microsoft Azure GovCloud and Amazon Web Services GovCloud environments and solutions.
- Expert in leading and collaborating with technical teams of diverse IT related skill sets
- Highly developed interpersonal and oral/written communication skills, with the ability to effectively and professionally interact with a diverse set of stakeholders
- Active Azure or AWS Certifications
Skills Required
- U.S. citizenship
- Ability to obtain a DHS Public Trust security clearance
- Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years of related cloud engineering experience
- Experience supporting Microsoft Azure GovCloud environments and solutions
- Experience supporting Amazon Web Services GovCloud environments and solutions
- Ability to lead and collaborate with technical teams across diverse IT skill sets
- Highly developed interpersonal and oral/written communication skills
- Active Azure or AWS certification
ECS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ECS and has not been reviewed or approved by ECS.
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Healthcare Strength — ECS advertises multiple national-network medical plan options with HSA eligibility alongside dental and vision coverage. Coverage generally begins quickly and is paired with company-paid short- and long-term disability, adding stability to the health package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with Safe Harbor and immediate vesting on employer contributions is emphasized, with an employer match available. Access to an employee stock purchase plan via the parent company provides an additional savings avenue.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave up to 30 days, adoption assistance, and other family-oriented leaves are highlighted. Feedback suggests these offerings add meaningful value beyond base pay for many roles.
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What We Do
ECS, a segment of ASGN (NYSE: ASGN), delivers advanced solutions and services in cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), application and IT modernization, and science and engineering. The company solves critical, complex challenges for customers across the U.S. public sector, defense, intelligence and commercial industries. ECS maintains partnerships with leading cloud, cybersecurity, and AI/ML providers and holds specialized certifications in their technologies. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, ECS has more than 3,400 employees throughout the U.S. and has been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for the last five years.
