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AWS Cloud Engineer - 25271

HII
Annapolis Junction, MD, Maryland, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 28 Aug 2025
💰 $150,000/yr($111,662/yr$150,000/yr)

About the role

Requisition Number: 25271 

Required Travel: 0 - 10%

Employment Type: Full Time/Salaried/Exempt

Anticipated Salary Range: $111,662.00 - $150,000.00 

Security Clearance: Secret  

Level of Experience: Mid 

 

This opportunity resides with Warfare Systems (WS), a business group within HII’s Mission Technologies division. Warfare Systems comprises cyber and mission IT; electronic warfare; and C5ISR systems.

HII works within our nation’s intelligence and cyber operations communities to defend our interests in cyberspace and anticipate emerging threats. Our capabilities in cybersecurity, network architecture, reverse engineering, software and hardware development uniquely enable us to support sensitive missions for the U.S. military and federal agency partners.
 

 

Meet HII’s Mission Technologies Division
Our team of more than 7,000 professionals worldwide delivers all-domain expertise and advanced technologies in service of mission partners across the globe. Mission Technologies is leading the next evolution of national defense – the data evolution - by accelerating a breadth of national security solutions for government and commercial customers. Our capabilities range from C5ISR, AI and Big Data, cyber operations and synthetic training environments to fleet sustainment, environmental remediation and the largest family of unmanned underwater vehicles in every class. Find the role that’s right for you. Apply today. We look forward to meeting you.

 

To learn more about Mission Technologies, click here for a short video: https://vimeo.com/732533072

Job Description

HII Mission Technologies is hiring an experienced Cloud Engineer with deep expertise in AWS. In this role, you will design, implement, and maintain scalable and secure cloud infrastructure to support our evolving product ecosystem. You’ll work with modern technologies in a collaborative, fast-moving environment, contributing to solutions that drive real impact. This is a strong opportunity to grow your career while helping shape the future of our cloud strategy.

 

This position is based in Odenton, Maryland, and offers a hybrid work arrangement. Candidates should be available to work onsite at least 1–2 days per pay period and be prepared to report onsite on short notice when required. We are seeking applicants who are adaptable, reliable, and comfortable balancing remote and in-person responsibilities.

 

Essential Job Responsibilities

  • Responsible for engineering, architecting, and deploying cloud-based applications and infrastructure.
  • Leads the creation of strategic implementation plans for enterprise information systems.
  • Designs and implements infrastructure as code to build secure cloud environments and security enclaves.
  • Provide engineering support for integrating new applications into cloud environ-ments and transitioning existing applications into virtualized cloud environments.
    Virtualization of legacy systems to use infrastructure services such as Physical to Virtual (P2V) or Virtual to Virtual (V2V) workload conversions.
  • Support customer use of service Application Program Interfaces (API), Command Line Interfaces (CLI) and infrastructure service management  consoles.
    Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 9+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering including operations, management, de-sign, and development of cloud-based applications and capabilities with a Bache-lors in related field; 7 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 13 years relevant experience.
  • 3+ years experience with Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, etc.)
  • Proficiency in Python for scripting, automation, and application development.
  • Hands-on experience with the Linux command line, including system navigation, file manipulation, and shell scripting.
  • Must have experience automating cloud configuration using tooling such as Ter-raform, AWS Config, Ansible, etc.
  • Ability to thrive in a high pressure, highly flexible environment against both short and long-term requirements.
  • Ability to collaborate with existing platform architects on long term and strategic archi-tectural changes to the platform.
    Have a strong understanding of cloud networking best practices.
  • Able to work autonomously actively identifying areas for improvement.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.
  • Position requires a Comp IAT Security+ certification
  • Must be able to work in a hybrid environment, spending 1-2 days per pay period in Odenton, MD and must have flexibilty to accommodate any changes in schedule or ons

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