Cloud Engineer

Conselara is hiring a Cloud Engineer to operate and secure AWS and Azure infrastructure supporting federal health IT systems. The role focuses on Linux and Windows administration, cloud automation, CI/CD, Kubernetes, security compliance, and hosting support, while serving as an escalation point for complex infrastructure issues.

Responsibilities:

• Operate and harden production AWS (EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch) for public-facing federal web systems under uptime commitments
• Build out Azure capability: AKS or App Service, Entra ID, Azure Monitor, and infrastructure as code in Terraform or Bicep
• Administer Linux at depth on RHEL and Ubuntu, including shell scripting, performance tuning, patching, and the kind of troubleshooting that ends an escalation instead of forwarding it
• Administer Windows Server where the workload calls for it, including AD and Entra integration
• Automate the work using Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), and container orchestration on Kubernetes, EKS or AKS
• Support security and compliance: NIST 800-53 control implementation, FedRAMP-aligned environments, continuous monitoring, vulnerability remediation, and evidence for ATO packages. In federal health IT the compliance work is part of the engineering, not an afterthought
• Support Drupal, PHP and WordPress hosting stacks, including Acquia and other managed hosting platforms
• Act as the escalation point for complex infrastructure problems, and raise the team's floor through documentation and knowledge sharing

Requirements:

• 5 or more years administering Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu) in production, including shell scripting and performance troubleshooting
• 3 or more years hands-on AWS, building and operating production workloads rather than console familiarity
• Demonstrable Azure experience. You have built or operated real Azure workloads. This is the differentiator for the role, and strong Linux without Azure will not clear the bar
• Windows Server administration experience
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible or equivalent) used on a real team
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Must be authorized to work in the United States
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
• An AWS Professional or Specialty certification: Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, Security, Advanced Networking, or Machine Learning
• An Azure certification such as AZ-104, AZ-305 or AZ-500
• A Kubernetes certification (CKA or KCNA)
• Federal experience, especially with HHS agencies
• Having taken a system through an ATO or FedRAMP authorization end to end
• Observability depth with Datadog, CloudWatch, or Prometheus and Grafana
• Operational database familiarity: MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB
• Awareness of Section 508 accessibility obligations on federal web systems