Lead Cloud Engineer

Empower AI is AI for government. Empower AI gives federal agency leaders the tools to elevate the potential of their workforce with a direct path for meaningful transformation. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Empower AI leverages three decades of experience solving complex challenges in Health, Defense, and Civilian missions. Our proven Empower AI Platform provides a practical, sustainable path for clients to achieve transformation that is true to who they are, what they do, how they work, with the resources they have. The result is a government workforce that is exponentially more creative and productive. For more information, visit www.Empower.ai.

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CLOUD ENGINEER V

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent related experience
• AWS Mastery: 10+ years in cloud engineering, with deep hands-on expertise across core AWS services.
• Automation & IaC: Advanced experience with Terraform or AWS CloudFormation. Strong background in building modular, reusable infrastructure components.
• DevOps & CI/CD: Experience setting up enterprise-grade pipelines (AWS CodePipeline, GitLab, Jenkins) for continuous integration and delivery.
• Security & Compliance: Strong knowledge of cloud security practices, IAM policy design, encryption, audit, and compliance frameworks
• Resilience & Performance: Expertise in architecting for scalability, availability (multi-region/multi-AZ), disaster recovery, and fault tolerance.
• Collaboration & Communication: Strong ability to engage stakeholders, present technical strategies, and influence decision-making at senior levels.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Multi-cloud Awareness: Understanding of other platforms (Azure, GCP)

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

This position requires the ability to perform the below essential functions:

• Sitting for long periods
• Standing for long periods
• Ambulate throughout an office
• Ambulate between several buildings
• Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl as required
• Repeatedly lift and carry weight up to _40__ pounds
• Travel by land or air transportation _20__ %

All hiring and promotion decisions at Empower AI are based on merit to bring the best talent available to contribute to our firm's overall success. It is the policy of Empower AI not to discriminate against any applicant for employment, or employee because of age, color, sex, disability, national origin, race, religion, or veteran status. Empower AI is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.