Cloud Operations Engineer

Cloud Operations EngineerThe Opportunity: Are you looking for an opportunity to leverage your Cloud expertise in a high impact role? Booz Allen has an opportunity to showcase your talents by supporting the United States Air Force. We’re looking for a CloudOps Engineer to join the team. You’ll work in a Cloud and Software Engineering role, working with teams to leverage and expand your client’s capabilities.

You should thrive in a fast-paced environment, be able to translate customer needs, and assist others in migration and solutioning of mission critical capabilities. You’ll be responsible for working with current and new software development teams understanding their architecture and development environment tooling to develop onboarding paths to your client’s platform.

Organizations are rapidly evolving their cloud environments and ensuring those environments run securely, reliably, and efficiently is critical. As a CloudOps Engineer, you will operate and optimize cloud platforms, automate infrastructure, and support mission focused teams as they deploy, scale, and maintain cloud-native solutions. You’ll strengthen your technical skills while helping clients achieve operational excellence across their cloud ecosystems.

Work in a dynamic, large team environment supporting a large-scale government program, using next-gen tools, standards, and processes, including Kubernetes, Terraform, Terragrunt, and Python. Design and develop automation pipelines to drive rapid delivery of functionality using CI/CD tools such as GitLab. Use state of the art diagnostic tools and monitoring systems to provide analysis on Web application errors, including the identification and investigation of application behavior through code and log analysis and business logic

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:

• 1+ years of experience with operating cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience with scripting for automation, including Python, bash, or PowerShell
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions
• Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems and cloud-native applications
• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree
• Ability to obtain AWS Solutions Architect Associate, AWS Certified CloudOps, or Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert Certification within 60 days of hire date
• Ability to obtain DoD 8570 IAT Level II or IAT Level III Certification within 30 days of hire date

Nice If You Have:

• Experience with Linux or Windows Server
• Experience with network fundamentals
• Experience with container technologies, including Docker or Kubernetes
• Experience with automation tools such as GitLab and GitHub
• Knowledge of Generative AI best practices, prompt engineering, agentic, and agentic workflows
• Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree in CS, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or Engineering

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 recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $99,000.00 to $225,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date. Identity Statement As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Candidate AI Usage Policy AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.

Work Model Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.

• Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
• Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen or customer facility, in alignment with your leadership's expectations and the needs of the role.
• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed full-time at a customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.