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SAIC

Principal Cloud Engineer

Colorado Springs, CO

$120K - $160K/yr

Cloud Comp Engr Schedule: Full-Time Shift: Day Job Travel: No Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI ... Maintain SOPs and troubleshooting guides. * Assist teammates with infrastructure and server ...

Coalfire

Principal Cloud Engineer

Charleston, WV · Remote

$109K - $182K/yr

... cloud security engineering and architecture, including principal- or staff-level scope · Hands-on ... These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions ...

SAIC

Principal Cloud Engineer

Colorado Springs, CO · On-site

$120K - $160K/yr

Cloud Comp Engr Schedule: Full-Time Shift: Day Job Travel: No Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI ... Maintain SOPs and troubleshooting guides. * Assist teammates with infrastructure and server ...

Greystar Worldwide, LLC

Principal Cloud Engineer

SUMMARY The Principal Cloud Engineer is a senior technical leader who pairs architectural vision with hands-on engineering execution. You will design and build the reference architectures, patterns ...

SAIC

Principal Cloud Engineer

Colorado Springs, CO · On-site

$120K - $160K/yr

Description SAIC is seeking a Cloud Engineer to support the AF TENCAP HOPE 2.0 contract onsite in ... Maintain SOPs and troubleshooting guides. * Assist teammates with infrastructure and server ...

Coalfire

Principal Cloud Engineer

$109K - $182K/yr

... cloud security engineering and architecture, including principal- or staff-level scope • Hands-on ... These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions ...

SAIC

Cloud Engineer Principal

Washington, DC · Remote

$160K - $200K/yr

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 ...

SAIC

Cloud Engineer Principal

Washington, DC · On-site

$160K - $200K/yr

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 ...

Workday

Principal Cloud Engineer - US Federal

Reston, VA · On-site

$58 - $77.50/hr

As the Principal Cloud Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in guiding Workday's cloud adoption strategy and leading the technical aspects of our transition to the Public Cloud. In this critical ...

SAIC

Cloud Engineer Principal

Washington, DC · On-site

$160K - $200K/yr

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 ...

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Principal Cloud Engineer

SAIC

Colorado Springs, CO

$120K - $160K/yr

Full-time

Posted 9 days ago

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7.9

Company rating: 7.9 out of 10

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Job description

Job ID: 2615021

Location: Colorado Springs, CO, US

Date Posted: 2026-07-28

Category: Information Technology

Subcategory: Cloud Comp Engr

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: No

Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE


Description

SAIC is seeking a Cloud Engineer to support the AF TENCAP HOPE 2.0 contract onsite in Colorado Springs, CO. The AF TENCAP HOPE 2.0 contract bridges intelligence community collection architectures, capabilities, and technologies with DoD operational and tactical requirements. This effort will deliver rapid, innovative, and cost-effective capabilities to meet warfighter needs, and will include bringing national capabilities to bear across all warfighting domains spanning intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, combat applications, battlespace awareness, command and control, multi-level security and mission programs.

The Cloud Engineer will be a part of a close team that maintains, enhances and upgrades a myriad of applications and services, in an enterprise environment. As part of the team, you will participate in implementation and maintenance of On-Prem Cloud and IT Infrastructure to support the customer.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide mid to top-tier Kubernetes cloud engineering in on-prem heterogeneous environments.
  • Develop and maintain automation for deployments/configuration management.
  • Administer and manage multiple on-prem cloud environments.
  • Monitor and remediate cloud infrastructure health, performance, and availability.
  • Provide cloud operations support during exercises.
  • Update cloud environments and apply DoD STIGs.
  • Manage cloud infrastructure/services (Linux VMs, RKE2, Rancher, storage).
  • Remediate vulnerabilities and respond to tasking orders.
  • Maintain SOPs and troubleshooting guides.
  • Assist teammates with infrastructure and server administration.
  • Manage software installations and asset/application inventories.
  • Draft/enhance documentation for problem resolution processes.
  • Prepare technical justifications for hardware/software procurement.
  • Execute other systems administration tasks as assigned.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • DoD 8140 System Administrator Intermediate Certification (Security+ CE or higher).
  • Bachelor’s degree plus 4+ years' experience; 4 additional years of experience may substitute for a degree.
  • Knowledge of DoD security compliance (e.g., STIGs, SCAP).
  • Proficient in operating systems: RHEL, Rocky Linux.
  • Understanding of network protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS).
  • Expertise in deploying Rancher Kubernetes Engine 2 (RKE2) on-prem.
  • Experience installing, configuring, and troubleshooting RKE2, including software like cert-manager, Keycloak, Grafana, Loki, Alloy, Longhorn, Rancher, and Argo CD.
  • Skilled in using GitOps for automated deployments with Argo CD.
  • Strong organizational skills with experience in documentation, log analysis, system audits, and record keeping.
  • Adaptable to evolving system and support requirements.
  • Strong technical writing skills for documenting plans, findings, and recommendations.
  • Active Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain TS/SCI.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen.
  • Based in Colorado Springs and able to work on-site 100%.

Desired Qualifications:

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and/or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification.
  • Documented knowledge of configuration management tools (Ansible).
  • Documented experience with scripting (e.g., shell, bash, python).
  • Experience supporting enterprise authentication (e.g., LDAP, OIDC).
  • Working knowledge of infrastructure hardware and appliances.

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

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