At Credence, we support our clients’ mission-critical needs, powered by technology. We provide cutting-edge solutions, including AI/ML, enterprise modernization, and advanced intelligence capabilities, to the largest defense and health federal organizations. Through partnership and trust, we increase mission success for war-fighters and secure our nation for a better future.
We are privately held, are repeatedly recognized as a top place to work, and have been on the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies list for the last 12 years. We practice servant leadership and believe that by focusing on the success of our clients, team members, and partners, we all achieve greater success.
We are seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to support cloud modernization efforts for DoW customers. This role focuses on building, operating, and improving reusable cloud platform capabilities using AWS, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and containerization.
The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience supporting secure cloud environments, developing repeatable infrastructure patterns, improving deployment workflows, and helping engineering teams deliver workloads more efficiently. This role will work closely with Cloud Engineers, Solutions Architects, Cybersecurity Professionals, and customer stakeholders to design, deploy, troubleshoot, and improve secure AWS-based platform services.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Collaborate with Cloud Engineers, Solutions Architects, Cybersecurity Professionals, and customer teams to manage, modernize, and secure AWS-based platforms supporting DoW customers
- Build, maintain, and improve reusable cloud infrastructure patterns using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and AWS CloudFormation
- Support development and improvement of CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, security scan, deployment, and release workflows
- Assist application and engineering teams with onboarding workloads to platform services and standardized deployment patterns
- Support containerized workload deployments using technologies such as Docker, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and AWS Fargate
- Troubleshoot infrastructure, pipeline, container, networking, permissions, and deployment issues across development, test, and production environments
- Develop scripts and automation to reduce manual operational tasks and improve consistency, reliability, and delivery speed
- Help maintain platform services related to monitoring, logging, access control, configuration management, patching, and operational support
- Work with cybersecurity and compliance teams to ensure platform services and automation align with security, governance, and customer requirements
- Research, evaluate, and recommend new tools, technologies, and engineering practices that improve platform reliability and developer experience
- Document technical designs, deployment procedures, runbooks, reusable patterns, and operational processes
Requirements
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field
- Current CompTIA Security+ certification, or ability to obtain within the first 60 days
- Current AWS certification, or ability to obtain within the first 90 days
- 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, systems administration, infrastructure automation, or a related technical role
- Hands-on experience with AWS environments and core services such as EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Security Groups, RDS, EFS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Systems Manager
- Working experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar technologies
- Experience developing, maintaining, or supporting CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, or similar platforms
- Hands-on experience with containerization concepts and tools such as Docker, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, or AWS Fargate
- Proficiency with scripting or automation using Shell, PowerShell, Python, or JavaScript
- Ability to work and produce results in an agile, fast-paced environment with dynamic deadlines
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document technical processes and procedures.
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS Associate, Specialty, or Professional-level certification
- Experience with Terraform modules, remote state, workspaces, and reusable IaC patterns
- Experience with Git-based workflows, branching strategies, merge requests, and code reviews
- Familiarity with YAML and JSON for infrastructure, pipeline, and configuration definitions
- Understanding of orchestration and automation tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, GitLab, AWS Systems Manager, or similar technologies
- Experience with Kubernetes tooling such as Helm, ingress controllers, namespaces, or container registries
- Experience supporting secure environments subject to federal, Public Trust, NIST, or similar compliance frameworks
- Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as CloudWatch, Splunk, OpenSearch, Prometheus, or Grafana
- Familiarity with AI/ML concepts, generative AI tools, or AI-assisted development workflows
- Familiarity with Active Directory or LDAP-based solutions
- RHEL, Linux, or Windows Server administration experience
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field
- Current CompTIA Security+ certification, or ability to obtain within the first 60 days
- Current AWS certification, or ability to obtain within the first 90 days
- 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, systems administration, infrastructure automation, or a related technical role
- Hands-on experience with AWS environments and core services such as EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Security Groups, RDS, EFS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Systems Manager
- Working experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar technologies
- Experience developing, maintaining, or supporting CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, or similar platforms
- Hands-on experience with containerization concepts and tools such as Docker, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, or AWS Fargate
- Proficiency with scripting or automation using Shell, PowerShell, Python, or JavaScript
- Ability to work and produce results in an agile, fast-paced environment with dynamic deadlines
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document technical processes and procedures
Credence Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Credence and has not been reviewed or approved by Credence.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive or better than average across many roles, with multiple examples describing excellent pay and competitive salaries. Additional cash elements such as bonuses appear alongside base pay.
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, supported by HSAs/FSAs and a TRICARE supplement. Employer-paid life and disability coverage further strengthen the protection package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes flexible PTO and a broad holiday schedule aligned to federal holidays. Additional leave types such as military and bereavement leave are available.
Credence Insights
What We Do
Credence provides innovative technology, health, international development, engineering, and management solutions to support mission-critical programs for Federal government customers. We are one of the nation’s largest privately held government contractors. Our ability to perform exceptionally to implement new solutions, efficiencies, and savings across 220 U.S. Government programs is due to our obsession with exceeding customer expectations and our emphasis on employee wellbeing—best exemplified by our corporate philosophy: “One Measure of Success. Yours.” WHY WORK WITH CREDENCE? We are consistently rated as a Top Workplace and are proud to be one of the fastest growing privately held firms in the U.S. over the last decade. Credence treats each customer, teaming partner, and employee as a trusted partner whom we serve. We ensure successful outcomes by focusing on the measure of success that we consider to be most important—Yours. WHY WORK FOR CREDENCE? We are a diverse, enthusiastic team of professionals who are dedicated to providing exceptional service to our customers. Our culture is focused on employee empowerment, recognition, and reward, and each person is encouraged to take initiative and strive to reach their greatest potential. HOW CREDENCE GIVES BACK: We believe in giving back to the communities in which we live and work through corporate charitable events, support for employee volunteering, and a 100% corporate match for employee charitable giving.
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