Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

About Aquia Inc.

Named the “#1 Best Remote Startup to Work For in 2025” by Built In, Aquia is a digital services firm specializing in cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and compliance automation for the U.S. government.  

Founded by Veterans, we are passionate about making our country digitally capable and secure. Since 2021, we’ve generated millions in cost savings through cloud services and licensing optimization, enabled civil servants to double health care fraud investigations through streamlined cloud-based systems, and reduced authorization timelines by 74% through modernized security processes. Last year, we were named the 2024 Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Business (SDVOSB) of the Year by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Aquia is hiring a senior-level Cloud Infrastructure Architect to support a Department of Defense (DoD) Software Factory. The successful candidate will serve as a Kubernetes Subject Matter Expert (SME) on a team responsible for securing and maintaining a hardened container repository, designed to automate, secure and accelerate the approval process of commercial and open-source containers to be used within the DoD. This role combines hands-on engineering, architecture, and leadership skills.

Candidates must be U.S. Citizens eligible for a DoD SECRET clearance.

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What You'll Do:

• Builds, maintains, and configures elastic, cost-effective, resilient, and secure containerized workloads using Infrastructure-as-Code principles in Development, Test, and Live environments.
• Designs containerized solutions for relational/non-relational databases, data auditing, caching, and performance.
• Manages different Kubernetes providers (Amazon EKS / Fargate, Azure KS and Google KE) .
• Works with other Architects on Security, Data protection, and Failover Failback strategies.
• Implements Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment using different CI/CD tools by container registries.
• Leverage and develop IaC/CaC to be fully cloud and on-premise agnostic leveraging technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm and Kubernetes Operators and/or similar.

What we're looking for:

• 5+ years Cloud Infrastructure related work including AWS, GCP or other cloud service providers
• Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes and Containerization generally
• Expert-level knowledge of DoD Enterprise DevSecOps Reference Design
• Experience developing tools and automation with Python, Golang, or other scripting language
• Expert-level knowledge of Cloud Security architectures, tools, and best-practices
• Proficiency in secure software development practices, release planning, testing, and quality assurance (DevSecOps)
• Proficiency with modern Infrastructure as code tooling (CDK, Terraform), and experience using Python, Golang, or other scripting languages
• Familiarity with security and privacy frameworks, standards and regulations like GDPR, CCPA, CSA STAR, ISO 27000 series, NIST, etc.
• Strong learning ability, strong self-drive, good adaptability and passion for security.
• Comfortable leading conversations with both engineers and senior executives.

Benefits

• Premium health care plans (90% employer-paid)
• Employee stock plan
• 100% 401k match (up to IRS annual max)
• Generous PTO package
• Personal training and development budget

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