[Hiring] Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer @Aquia

Role Description

Aquia is looking for a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team supporting a strategic Federal agency. In this role, you will be a key technical leader and "force multiplier," responsible for writing production-grade infrastructure, managing robust CI/CD pipelines, and serving as a security-focused partner to engineering teams. You will work in a cloud-first (AWS) environment, bringing a security-first mindset to everything you build and review.

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure & IaC
  • Author, review, and maintain reusable Terraform modules for standardized cloud infrastructure provisioning on AWS.
  • Enforce IaC best practices including state management, module versioning, and least-privilege IAM design.
  • Conduct Terraform code reviews and mentor mid-level engineers on infrastructure patterns.
• CI/CD Pipeline Management
  • Design, build, and maintain Jenkins pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment workflows.
  • Standardize rootless container build workflows to ensure secure, daemonless image creation within CI/CD pipelines.
  • Continuously improve pipeline reliability, performance, and security gate coverage.
• Go Development
  • Write and deploy Go services and tooling within CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments.
  • Maintain code quality through idiomatic Go patterns, unit testing, and peer review.
• Python Application Development
  • Own ongoing development and maintenance of two Python applications, including bug fixes, feature work, and dependency management.
  • Ensure applications meet security and compliance requirements appropriate for the federal environment.
• Observability & Log Management
  • Oversee the configuration and deployment of log aggregation tools to support monitoring and data fidelity.
  • Collaborate with security and operations teams to ensure log completeness and data fidelity.
• Containerization
  • Build and maintain Docker images and container workflows across development and production environments.
  • Advocate for container security best practices, ensuring images are built and stored using secure, daemonless methods.
• Security Partnership & Advisory
  • Serve as a security point of contact (POC) for other engineering teams, providing guidance on vulnerability management, patching strategy, and remediation.
  • Review code and infrastructure changes through a security lens and drive adoption of secure-by-design practices.
  • Assist teams in triaging findings, prioritizing remediation efforts, and meeting compliance-driven patch SLAs.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a cloud or federal IT environment.
• Proficiency in Terraform: authoring and reviewing modules, remote state management, and CI-integrated plan/apply workflows.
• Hands-on Jenkins experience: pipeline-as-code (Declarative or Scripted), shared libraries, and multi-stage pipelines.
• Strong Go development experience, including deployment within automated pipeline environments.
• Strong Python skills with demonstrated ownership of maintained applications.
• Docker experience: image authoring, multi-stage builds, and container security fundamentals.
• Experience with daemonless container build tools.
• Solid AWS knowledge across core services (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, ECS/EKS, Lambda, etc.).
• Security-minded approach to engineering: comfortable with vulnerability triage, patching workflows, and cross-team security advisory.
• Ability to obtain a U.S. federal Public Trust clearance (can be completed at hire; U.S. citizenship or permanent residency required).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with federal agency environments.
• Familiarity with FedRAMP, FISMA, or NIST 800-53 control frameworks.
• Experience with Zero Trust Architecture principles and implementation.
• AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, Security Specialty) or Security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, vendor-specific certifications).
• Comfort working in highly regulated, compliance-driven environments.

Benefits

• Premium health care plans (90% employer-paid).
• Employee stock plan.
• 100% 401k match (up to IRS annual max).
• Generous PTO package.
• Personal training and development budget.