Cloud Engineer Principal

Job ID: 2615587

Location: Washington, DC, US

Date Posted: 2026-08-12

Category: Information Technology

Subcategory: Cloud Comp Engr

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: No

Minimum Clearance Required: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE

Description

Job Summary

SAIC is looking to hire a Principal Cloud Engineer to support our government customer. This resource will be responsible for managing cloud environments, possessing extensive skills and knowledge in cloud service provider selection, implementation techniques, application data migration techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements.

In addition to the duties required of a Cloud Engineer, a Cloud Engineer SME will provides technical, managerial, and administrative direction for problem definition, analysis, requirements development and implementation for complex to extremely complex systems within cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications, Skills, Experience or Certifications:

12+ years experience in information technology WITH 8+ years of focused, HANDS-ON experience deploying/configuring workloads within EITHER AWS or Azure - preferred experience is DevOps focused

Hands-on experience installing, configuring, upgrading FinOps tools like Kion in AWS environments

Experience in setting up Kion organizational units and account schemes, projects, linking Kion with Cloud Service Providers such as AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Google Cloud Provider (Google Cloud Platform)

Hands-on expertise writing CloudFormation Infrastructure as Code templates for infrastructure deployment

Hands-on experience with AWS Billing Conductor and Cost Explorer

Proven track record of identifying AWS resource waste.

Experience authoring Account, Subscriptions etc., Kion compliance scores and financial guardrails

Experience with Kion for tracking cost allocation for resources such as container, ALB, RDS

Experience managing and scaling applications inside AWS ECS clusters

Proficient in configuring Application Load Balancers for high availability

Experience scaling, patching, and optimizing RDS instances

Experience participation in daily scrums, sprint planning, and retrospectives

Proven ability to work cross-functionally with DevOps and Cloud teams

Good understanding of FedRAMP services and best practices for their consumption

Experience managing AWS Public and GovCloud across regions

Demonstrated understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices across cloud service providers

Knowledge of Agile Project Management methodologies

Experience documenting requirements, user stories, and use cases

Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and team environment

Professional Architect Certification within EITHER AWS or Azure

Job Role Specific Requirements

Producing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or Configuration as Code (CaC), delivering solutions with a code first approach with sufficient comments and structure

Collaborating with engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions

Diagnosing and resolving complex performance, security, and/or technical challenges

Supporting all tiers of applications deployed in the cloud, configuring network, cloud native services, infrastructure, and privileges for development teams

Identifying opportunities for optimizing cloud consumption by the agency and providing strategic direction for addressing those opportunities

Creating/updating cloud environment configurations within Kion to establish/support application workloads, including

Azure Focused: Configuration of Subscriptions, Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, load balancers, App Services, Azure Batch, Virtual Machines, resource tagging, billing, policy implementation, and security controls

AWS Focused: Configuration of AWS Accounts, IAM Users and Roles, VPCs, subnets, load balancers, Network routes, Transit Gateway, Control Tower, Systems Manager, Config Manager, stack sets, WAF, CloudFront, and Route53

Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.