Cloud Solutions Engineer - (TS Clearance Required)

Our Deloitte AI & Engineering team transform technology platforms, drive innovation, and help make a significant impact on our clients’ success. You’ll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and reengineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses. Your contributions can help clients improve financial performance, accelerate new digital ventures, and fuel growth through innovation.

Work You’ll Do

As a Project Delivery Cloud Solutions Engineer on the project, you will design, implement, and sustain secure cloud solutions supporting multiple classification levels, including DoD Impact Level (IL) 4/IL5 environments. This role requires advanced cloud infrastructure administration expertise, strong operational discipline in production environments, and deep familiarity with DoD compliance and accreditation requirements.

• Design, administer, and sustain secure cloud solutions across multiple classification levels, manage compute, storage, networking, VMs, and containers/Kubernetes
• Implement and operate Infrastructure as Code (IaC) at scale using Terraform, CloudFormation, and/or ARM to automate and standardize deployments
• Monitor and improve availability, performance, security posture, capacity, and cost using enterprise observability, tuning, and optimization practices
• Ensure compliance and accreditation readiness by partnering with security teams on RMF, NIST, STIGs, DoD 8140, vulnerability remediation, and ATO activities
• Lead troubleshooting and resilience for mission-critical systems, including backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and support for 24/7 operations/on-call rotation
• Drive modernization through cloud migrations, DevSecOps integration, privileged access/zero trust controls, stakeholder coordination, documentation, and junior staff mentorship

The Team

Deloitte’s Government & Public Services (GPS) practice – our people, ideas, technology and outcomes – is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure offering provides specialized engineering capabilities to design, implement, manage, and operate hybrid cloud environments, modernize networks and AI infrastructure from the core to the edge, and incubate new infrastructure and device services to help clients stay ahead with the latest technology advances.

The Project Delivery Talent Model is designed for professionals with specialized skills that align to a current client need. Team members focus on delivering services to clients, without additional expectations related to business development or promotion. Their employment is tied to their role on a project, and they are eligible for a benefits package that is competitive for project delivery-focused professionals.

Qualifications

Required: 

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• At least 5+ years within the following:
• Experience administering secure cloud infrastructure in compliance-heavy environments
• Proven experience implementing IaC at scale and operating production cloud systems with strong reliability discipline
• Hands-on experience with Linux administration (RHCSA-aligned)
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes operations/deployments (CKA/CKAD-aligned)
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Advanced
• Cloud Infrastructure: Advanced
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship
• Active TS clearance with the ability to obtain an SCI.
• Ability to be on site in Arlington, VA 4 days a week 

Preferred: 

• CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional)
• RHCSA (Red Hat Certified System Administrator)
• CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator)
• APMG Accredited Trainer – CISM (Certified Information Security Manager)
• CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Application Developer)