DevOps Cloud Engineer

BAE Systems is a defense, aerospace, and security company serving national security and related missions. The DevOps Cloud Engineer will build, automate, operate, and continuously improve Microsoft Azure for Government and AWS GovCloud environments, developing reusable deployment patterns, CI/CD pipelines, operational tooling, monitoring capabilities, and engineering standards. The role also provides technical leadership and collaborates with infrastructure, application, security, and compliance teams to deliver secure, reliable, and highly available cloud services.

Responsibilities:

• Support implementation of cloud landing‑zone capabilities, including subscription standards, resource organization, policy enforcement, naming conventions, tagging, and environment baselines
• Engineer Azure and AWS solutions that meet enterprise security, compliance (CMMC, NIST 800‑171), and operational requirements
• Create reusable CI/CD pipeline templates, IaC modules, and deployment workflows for common Azure patterns
• Develop automation, tools, and capabilities that help teams secure, manage, monitor, and troubleshoot Azure workloads
• Ensure alignment with enterprise cybersecurity requirements, cloud‑governance standards, and compliance frameworks
• Provide engineering support to application teams deploying IT‑based solutions into Azure Government
• Deliver technical leadership for continuous improvement, root‑cause analysis, and incident response
• Collaborate with security teams to implement secure‑by‑default patterns for identity, network access, encryption, logging, and monitoring
• Partner with application owners to transition workloads from design through deployment and into ongoing operations
• Guide teams in understanding cloud standards, deployment patterns, security requirements, and operational responsibilities
• Develop documentation, reference architectures, templates, and self‑service capabilities

Requirements:

• • 6+ years of experience with an MS, 8+ years with a BS, 10+ years with an AA, or 12+ years with a high school diploma. Or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• • Extensive experience working with cloud services in Microsoft Azure or AWS
• • Expertise in architecting CI/CD pipelines using Git‑based tools and in building Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, Bicep, or similar technologies
• • Prior experience working in a regulated enterprise environment such as government, defense, aerospace, financial services, or healthcare
• • Working knowledge of automation and scripting languages such as Python or PowerShell
• • Experience with Terraform, Bicep and ARM templates
• • Experience with Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
• • Experience with CMMC, NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53 or similar compliance frameworks
• • Azure or AWS Certifications including Azure Solution Architect Expert, Azure Administrator Associate, DevOps Engineer, AWS Solution Architect Professional, AWS CloudOps Engineer, AWS Developer or other related certifications