Cloud Engineer at Booz Allen in Annapolis Junction, MD

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Cloud Engineer The Opportunity: Everyone is trying to “harness the cloud,” but not everyone knows how. As a cloud computing infrastructure architect, you know how to take advantage of cloud capabilities. On our team of experienced professionals, you’ll use cutting-edge enterprise cloud platforms to support your clients as they modernize their IT infrastructure and meet their most challenging missions. We’re looking for someone like you to help transform our managed platforms to support various missions. You’ll closely collaborate with fellow cloud architects and engineers specializing in Amazon Commercial, GovCloud, and Azure to build, evolve, maintain, and secure out cloud solution components. You’ll have the chance to work within a DevOps framework to create and manage container apps and use products like Kubernetes to further the mission. With access to our internal tooling and processes you’ll have the space and time to explore different ways of solving our clients’ problems, and you’ll partner with stakeholders and your team to deliver the right technical solutions. Whether modernizing legacy computing platforms and applications or creating new ones from scratch, you’ll have the latest tech and brightest teammates at your fingertips. Grow your skills at the leading edge of innovation. Join us. The world can’t wait. You Have: 5+ years of experience engineering and operating cloud infrastructure in AWS, including multi-account networking with VPCs, Transit Gateway, and centralized egress and inspection 3+ years of experience writing infrastructure as code with AWS CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation and delivering it through pull request-based CI/CD pipelines with automated tests 3+ years of experience automating infrastructure and cost controls, including schedules, lifecycle rules, tag enforcement, and budget alerts, with Terraform, AWS CDK, or Python delivered through pull request-based CI/CD pipelines 2+ years of experience optimizing cloud costs, including rightsizing, Savings Plans or Reserved Instance coverage, storage lifecycle policies, and off-hours scheduling, with measured savings Experience analyzing billing data in AWS and Azure, including AWS Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage Reports, and Azure Cost Management Experience using AI coding assistants or agents in daily engineering work and reviewing and validating AI-generated infrastructure code before it ships Bachelor’s degree in a Computer Science or Information Systems field DoD 8140 IAT Level II Certification such as Security+ CE Certification Nice If You Have: Experience with cloud management and cost platforms, including Kion, CloudHealth, or Apptio Cloudability, including project budgets and spend enforcement Experience implementing showback or chargeback, including cost allocation tags, account hierarchies, and shared-cost splits for multi-tenant platforms Experience optimizing AI and LLM spend, including Amazon Bedrock, prompt caching, model routing, and batch inference Experience with Azure commercial levers, including reservations, savings plans, and Azure Hybrid Benefit Experience optimizing network and logging costs, including Transit Gateway, NAT gateways, public IPv4, CloudTrail, and CloudWatch log retention Experience supporting AWS GovCloud or DoD Impact Level 5 environments, including GovCloud billing through paired commercial accounts Knowledge of the FinOps Foundation Framework, including unit economics and cost forecasting economics and cost forecasting Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Compensation At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recog