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Lead Cloud Engineer

2 weeks ago

Reston, VA, United States Empower AI Full time


Lead Cloud Engineer

Job ID

2025-8538

Job Locations

US-VA-Reston

Category

IT: Administrator / Analyst / Architect / Engineer

Type

Regular Full-Time

Overview

Empower AI is AI for government. Empower AI gives federal agency leaders the tools to elevate the potential of their workforce with a direct path for meaningful transformation. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Empower AI leverages three decades of experience solving complex challenges in Health, Defense, and Civilian missions. Our proven Empower AI Platform provides a practical, sustainable path for clients to achieve transformation that is true to who they are, what they do, how they work, with the resources they have. The result is a government workforce that is exponentially more creative and productive. For more information, visit www.Empower.ai.

Empower AI is proud to be recognized as a 2024 Military Friendly Employer by Viqtory, the publisher of G.I. Jobs. This designation reflects the company's commitment to hiring and supporting active-duty and veteran employees.

Responsibilities

We are seeking an experienced Lead Cloud Engineer (10-15 years) with deep expertise in Amazon Web Services (AWS) to drive the design, implementation, and governance of cloud-native infrastructure. This role requires both hands-on technical capability and leadership skills to guide engineering teams, ensure architectural best practices, and deliver scalable, secure, and compliant solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance, mentor junior engineers, and lead technical initiatives to drive cloud adoption and best practices. Cloud Architecture: Design and manage secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure, including multi-region solutions. Security & Compliance: Implement and manage security controls, identity and access management (IAM), and data protection measures to meet strict government standards like FedRAMP. DevOps & Automation: Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using tools like Terraform and build and manage CI/CD pipelines. Performance & Optimization: Monitor and optimize cloud environments for performance, cost, and capacity. Collaboration: Work closely with development, operations, security teams, and other stakeholders to meet technical and business requirements. Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for cloud architecture, configurations, and processes.

CLOUD ENGINEER V

Qualifications

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

  • Bachelors Degree or equivalent related experience
  • AWS Mastery: 10+ years in cloud engineering, with deep hands-on expertise across core AWS services.
  • Automation & IaC: Advanced experience with Terraform or AWS CloudFormation. Strong background in building modular, reusable infrastructure components.
  • DevOps & CI/CD: Experience setting up enterprise-grade pipelines (AWS CodePipeline, GitLab, Jenkins) for continuous integration and delivery.
  • Security & Compliance: Strong knowledge of cloud security practices, IAM policy design, encryption, audit, and compliance frameworks
  • Resilience & Performance: Expertise in architecting for scalability, availability (multi-region/multi-AZ), disaster recovery, and fault tolerance.
  • Collaboration & Communication: Strong ability to engage stakeholders, present technical strategies, and influence decision-making at senior levels.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Multi-cloud Awareness: Understanding of other platforms (Azure, GCP)

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

This position requires the ability to perform the below essential functions:

  • Sitting for long periods
  • Standing for long periods
  • Ambulate throughout an office
  • Ambulate between several buildings
  • Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl as required
  • Repeatedly lift and carry weight up to _40__ pounds
  • Travel by land or air transportation _20__ %


About Empower AI

All hiring and promotion decisions at Empower AI are based on merit to bring the best talent available to contribute to our firm's overall success. It is the policy of Empower AI not to discriminate against any applicant for employment, or employee because of age, color, sex, disability, national origin, race, religion, or veteran status. Empower AI is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

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