Senior Cloud Engineer

Got the Government Contractor Blues? Looking for a company that cares and goes beyond just filling another contract billet? Well look no further! Experience this family oriented company who takes pride in you and will help you grow where your passions lie. Holding many Defense & Federal government contracts around the globe, with Systems Plus you have the opportunity to take on new and evolving challenges, aim beyond what you think you are capable of and work in collaborative, dynamic, and high-tempo environments.


Our employees are our most valued asset and we invest in our people because we are in it for the long term. We are committed to your success and well-being and offer competitive benefits packages, salaries, bonus/award programs, and a high potential for professional growth and job opportunities world-wide.


Systems Plus is the company for you! Experience the difference and let’s talk about your future at Systems Plus today.

Position Title Senior Cloud Engineer
Position Type Full Time
Position Location Arlington, VA
Tracking Code 00878
Daily Responsibilities
  • Supports all technological duties associated with cloud computing, including design, planning, management, maintenance and support.
  • Functions as the senior representative to coordinate the automation of large scale deployments with modern configuration and deployment management systems.
  • Function as the primary POC for designing and enforcing disaster recovery plans and business continuity contingencies.
  • Develop automation methodologies for infrastructure build and system management activities across platforms and storage systems
  • Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking, including both hardware and host-based routing, VLAN's, firewalls, subnetting, and load balancing.
  • Demonstrated of troubleshooting tools for debugging/tuning Restful APIs.
  • Good understanding of modern micro-services architectures
  • Demonstrated experience deploying and maintaining operational stacks on AWS
  • The minimum experience and education requirements for this position are due to the complexity, at the program level, of the tasks at hand.
  • Instrumental in designing, updating and maintaining mission critical systems.
  • Provide guidance and support to all technical positions including system architects, developers and database administrators.
  • The requirements as stated above reflect industry standards.
Required: Years of Experience (min)
Required: Degree
  • BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Information Sciences, or related IT discipline OR Allowable Substitution: Additional ten (10) years of related professional experience can be substituted for a BS or BA degree.
Required: Experience
  • Strong experience as a Systems Administrator working with multiple AWS or similar PAS/SAAS solutions with different security concerns. Experience of DevOps with AWS CLI & Lambda • •
  • Knowledge and production experience in designing, deploying and administering complex Amazon AWS cloud applications (API Gateway, Lambda, ECS, ALB, WAF, EC2, RDS, Elasticache, Elasticsearch, API Gateway, SQS, IAM, VPC, Cloud formation)
  • Ability architect secure and robust solutions with regional disaster recovery in mind
  • Experience with design self-healing solutions to help ensure the stability and security of our services
  • Candidate needs to have production level experience using and debugging these services
  • Demonstrated Experience with at least two of the following languages and have experience integrating with third party APIs. (Node.js, Python, Ruby, Powershell, Bash, Javascript)
  • Demonstrated Experience automating deployment processes
  • Demonstrated Experience with combination of logs, system metrics, and application performance metrics to help debug interesting challenges.
  • Demonstrated Experience working with configuration management tools
Required: Clearance
  • Secret or Ability to obtain Secret Clearance.

About Systems Plus


Systems Plus is headquartered in Rockville, MD with over 2 decades of experience providing Global Enterprise Management, Technology, Engineering and Professional services and solutions across Defense and Federal Civilian government sectors.


From Discovery to Delivery, Systems Plus brings a greater measure of confidence, commitment and value to our clients. With various Defense and Federal contracts across the United States, Europe and Pacific/Asia, we are driving innovation and excellence within the Special Operations Forces Components and Commands, Defense Health Agency, United States Air Force, United States Marine Corps, National Institute of Standards and Technology, House of Representatives and more.


Through our diverse portfolio of clients and capabilities we power vision and insight—discover what’s possible with a Small Business that thinks BIG!

Interested individuals should email their resume with salary expectations and with a cover letter to careers@sysplus.com .