Summary
A senior cloud platform engineer opportunity focused on designing secure and automated infrastructure for regulated environments. The role involves building scalable platforms, improving deployment workflows, and supporting reliable production operations using modern cloud technologies.
Highlights
Fully remote senior cloud engineering role with strong compensation, work on highly regulated environments, and opportunities to design automation, deployment pipelines, and scalable platform capabilities.
Description
Job Title: AWS Cloud Platform Analyst (AWS Cloud Platform / SRE Engineer - FedRAMP & GovCloud)
Location: Remote (Preference for PST Hours)
Work Arrangement: Remote
Employment Type: Contract
Contract Duration: 12+ months
Hourly Rate: $66.23/hr.
on W2 OR $79.41/hr.
on C2C
Domain: Technology | Government Cloud & Federal Compliance
Application Deadline: August 26, 2026
SKILLS REQUIRED
Primary (Must-Have):
✔️AWS Multi-Account / GovCloud Architecture & Platform Engineering
✔️Infrastructure as Code via Terraform & Cloud Governance Automation
✔️Software Development & Scripting in Python, Go, or Ruby for Infrastructure Automation
✔️Direct experience building, hardening, and operating FedRAMP High or DoD IL5 Compliant Environments
✔️US Citizenship or Green Card Status (Strict Federal/FedRAMP Requirement)
Secondary (Good to Have):
✔️Container Orchestration using Kubernetes, Docker, and Service Orchestration
✔️Continuous Delivery, Automated Federal Promotion Workflows, and CI/CD Component Design
✔️Implementation of FIPS, Vulnerability Management, and Regulated SaaS Security Standards
✔️Observability, Incident Response, Alerting, and Post-Incident Remediation in Federal Clusters
✔️Strong Technical Writing for Creating Runbooks, Dashboards, and Architectural Design Plans
POSITION OVERVIEW
✔️We are seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Platform Analyst / Senior SRE to design and build platform capabilities supporting FedRAMP High and IL5 environments.
✔️This fully remote position requires operating primarily on PST hours to support 8-hour daily operational cycles across federal platform services.
✔️The incumbent will lead the architecture of centralized platform APIs, reusable CI components, and automated continuous delivery capabilities.
✔️Candidates must possess deep technical expertise in AWS GovCloud, Terraform automation, and infrastructure coding in Python, Go, or Ruby.
✔️The candidate will eliminate manual operations by establishing gated, auditable deployment pipelines and paved-road service onboarding patterns.
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
✔️Build, harden, and operate platform services required for FedRAMP High and DoD IL5 environments, maintaining strict change control and auditability
✔️Automate federal promotion workflows, replacing manual deployment steps with automated, gated, and auditable continuous delivery pipelines
✔️Establish controlled rollout paths, validation gates, rollback procedures, and operational readiness controls for federal staging and production
✔️Develop reusable paved-road platform patterns and APIs to enable engineering teams to onboard services into federal environments securely and consistently
✔️Participate in production support and incident response for platform services, providing technical mentorship, runbooks, and observability tools to cross-functional teams
BENEFITS
Medical | Dental | Vision | 401(k)
EEOC Compliance
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.
DISCLAIMER
AI Usage Policy: Pacer Group uses AI to assist in screening applications.
Final hiring decisions are made by human recruiters based on qualifications and experience.
