Cloud Engineer - 3rd Shift

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Cloud Engineer - 3rd Shift to support our consulting client on a long term project providing multiple government agencies with their #1 product. This role is remote. If you are sharp with AWS cloud environments, building infrastructure, and Linux Administration, apply today!

Responsibilities:

• Configuration as code for infrastructure, system configuration, and application deployments
• Design and deploy cloud solutions on AWS
• Automate operations and maintenance activities
• Review security scan reports and address findings
• Apply patches, upgrades, and application deployments
• Monitor application availability and aide in resolving operational issues
  
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field
• 6+ years of experience with system administration of RPM-based Linux distributions (Amazon Linux, RHEL, CentOS, etc.)
• Automation experience with AWS cloud services (EKS, VPC, EC2, S3, CloudFormation, etc)
• Experience with fully automated infrastructure, system, and application deployment with technologies like CloudFormation or Terraform
• Experience with shell scripting
• Experience with government and industry security standards (CIS, STIG, or NIST 800-53) and remediating issues identified during security audits
• Experience with version control and CI/CD pipeline tools
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a US Government Security Clearance
  
  

Compensation:

• $90,000 - $135,000 *depending on years of experience*
• Health, Dental, Vision, PTO, 401K, Holidays, Sick Leave if required by Law
  
  

This job opens for applications on 1/19/2026. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date

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