About the role
Job Family: IT Architecture/Cloud (Digital) Travel Required: None Clearance Required: Ability to Obtain Public Trust We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer to support and enhance our existing AWS-based workloads while helping establish and expand our upcoming Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environment. This role requires deep hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, automation, application deployment, security, compliance-driven engineering, and AI platform deployment and configuration management. The ideal candidate will have strong experience designing, building, automating, and supporting cloud-native and hybrid environments across AWS and GCP. This individual must be capable of working independently, owning technical deliverables end-to-end, and driving implementation of reliable, secure, scalable, and compliant DevOps practices. What You Will Do Support, maintain, and optimize existing AWS cloud workloads and infrastructure. Assist in building and operationalizing GCP support capabilities for new and future workloads. Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure delivery. Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot applications across AWS and GCP environments. Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and operational tasks using tools such as Ansible and Python. Implement and support Infrastructure as Code and environment standardization practices. Support deployment, configuration, and operational management of AI and ML platforms and supporting infrastructure in cloud environments. Automate provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management for AI-enabled infrastructure and services. Collaborate with engineering and platform teams to enable secure, scalable, and compliant environments for AI workloads, without requiring hands-on AI application or model development. Ensure cloud environments and deployment processes align with security and compliance
requirements, including regulated frameworks such as FedRAMP or similar. Monitor system health, availability, and performance, and proactively resolve operational issues. Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, architecture diagrams, and standard operating procedures. Independently manage assigned work items, priorities, and deliverables with minimal supervision. Contribute to platform engineering best practices, cloud governance, and automation strategy. What You Will Need Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred. Bachelors' Degree Minimum TEN (10) years of overall IT experience, with significant focus on DevOps, cloud engineering, systems engineering, or platform engineering. Strong hands-on experience supporting and deploying workloads in AWS. Working knowledge or hands-on experience with GCP, including deployment and support of applications and cloud services. Proven experience designing and implementing CI/CD processes and tools in enterprise environments. Strong hands-on experience with automation and scripting using Ansible and Python. Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting applications in cloud environments. Experience supporting AI and ML platform deployments and configuration management, focused on infrastructure, automation, and operations rather than application or model development. Strong understanding of infrastructure automation, configuration management, release engineering, and platform operations. Experience working in compliance-driven environments, such as FedRAMP, NIST-based environments, or similar regulated frameworks. Experience with source control and DevOps toolchains such as Git, Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar platforms. Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and root cause analysis skills. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. What Would Be