Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - CIE 25-27278


IT - MD - Bethesda, MD
Bethesda, Maryland
Locations: Bethesda, Baltimore, Arlington, Washington DC
Posted On: August 14, 2025
Last Day to Apply: August 28, 2025
Pay: $105.00 per hour

Job Title: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Location: Remote (Must reside in the Washington DC / Northern VA / Maryland area)
Duration: 9 Months (Likely to Extend)

Position Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join a high-impact Agile Scrum team working on advanced AI and GPT-driven technologies. In this role, you will design, deploy, and manage secure, scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP, enabling mission-critical applications and next-gen knowledge retrieval systems.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Cloud Architecture: Architect and deploy secure, scalable infrastructure across public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

  • Networking: Implement and manage network gateways, cross-cloud connectivity, and P2P/VPN setups

  • DevSecOps: Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, enforce automated security compliance

  • RAG Pipelines: Engineer robust document ingestion, embedding, and vector database pipelines for AI knowledge systems

  • IaC (Infrastructure as Code): Build and maintain templates using Terraform, CloudFormation, and ARM

  • AI/ML Infrastructure: Support distributed training/inference workloads and agentic systems

  • Security & Compliance: Apply FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, and data protection standards (PHI/PII)

  • Operations & Monitoring: Deploy logging, monitoring, and incident response frameworks

Required Qualifications:

  • Active Public Trust Clearance or eligibility to obtain one

  • Master’s Degree with 6+ years of IT experience

  • Minimum 5 years in cloud infrastructure engineering

  • 3+ years experience with multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Technical Skills:

  • Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP

  • Networking: VPN (site-to-site, P2P), cross-cloud routing

  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps

  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM

  • RAG Pipelines: Experience with document processing, embedding generation, vector DBs (e.g., Pinecone, ChromaDB, Weaviate)

  • Scripting: Python, Bash, PowerShell

  • Containers: Kubernetes, Docker

  • Security: Familiarity with FedRAMP, NIST 800-53 compliance

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