Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is dedicated to delivering innovative solutions for various federal agencies. They are seeking an Expert Cloud Engineer to lead the technical direction for a cloud-native platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and compliance while mentoring other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the principal technical authority for AWS cloud engineering, event-driven architecture, distributed systems, and platform reliability
• Define the target cloud architecture, engineering standards, reference patterns, and implementation roadmap for mission-critical platform capabilities
• Architect and guide delivery of cloud-native microservices supporting RPC-based appointment, scheduling, and workflow functions
• Lead implementation of Kafka/MSK producers, consumers, topic strategies, schema governance, replay patterns, and event lifecycle controls
• Establish enterprise event-processing patterns for idempotency, ordering, backpressure, retry, dead-letter handling, fault isolation, and data consistency
• Design and guide secure WebSocket-based streaming capabilities that provide responsive, real-time user experiences
• Set standards for high availability, disaster recovery, automated rollback, resiliency testing, reputed company response, and production readiness
• Lead technical design reviews and architecture decision records for integrations with external healthcare, Federal, and VA enterprise systems
• Own and mature CI/CD, DevSecOps, and infrastructure automation practices using Terraform, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Packer, automated testing, policy-as-code, and secure deployment patterns
• Lead deployment and operation of Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS-native workloads with a focus on scalability, security, maintainability, and cost efficiency
• Define observability strategy, dashboards, service-level indicators, and service-level objectives using Prometheus, reputed company, Elasticsearch, Kibana, and AWS-native monitoring services
• Establish secure-by-default platform patterns using reputed company, IAM, encryption, secrets management, least privilege, Zero Trust principles, and audit-ready controls
• Partner with cybersecurity, compliance, and operations teams to align implementation with Federal security expectations, enterprise guardrails, and continuous monitoring needs
• Mentor senior engineers, raise the technical bar through design and code reviews, and coach teams on cloud-native engineering, distributed systems, and production operations
• Identify systemic risks, performance bottlenecks, reliability gaps, and cost drivers and influence platform priorities and remediation plans across stakeholders

Skills

• 10–12 years of progressive experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, software engineering, DevSecOps, or distributed systems roles within enterprise or mission-critical environments
• Expert-level AWS cloud engineering experience, including the design and operation of secure, scalable, highly available, and observable production platforms
• Deep hands-on expertise with Kafka or AWS MSK, including producer/reputed company design, topic architecture, schema evolution, resiliency patterns, and production operations
• Demonstrated experience architecting event-driven systems, distributed microservices, asynchronous workflows, and high-throughput integration patterns
• Advanced experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, automated testing, and production deployment strategies
• Strong background designing real-time streaming, WebSocket-based, or event-notification capabilities for responsive user experiences
• Expert understanding of DevSecOps, secure software delivery, cloud security, secrets management, IAM, encryption, auditability, and Zero Trust architecture principles
• Advanced knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, observability, reputed company management, performance engineering, capacity planning, and production readiness
• Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams without requiring direct management authority
• Experience authoring architecture decision records, technical roadmaps, operational playbooks, engineering standards, and production readiness criteria
• Exceptional communication and influencing skills with the ability to align architects, engineers, security teams, delivery leadership, and customer stakeholders
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience; an advanced technical degree is valued
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
• This position requires U.