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Cloud Engineer

Meridian Systematics

Location
Onsite (St. Louis, MO)
Compensation
$110k - $136k/yr
Employment
Full-time
Level
Senior Level
Posted 1 day ago

About the Role

Meridian Systematics is a small engineering firm delivering secure, scalable, and intelligent solutions for mission-driven organizations. The Cloud Engineer role focuses on automating AWS infrastructure, maintaining containerized applications, and supporting full-stack development within an Agile environment.

Skills

AWS Linux Windows Bash PowerShell JavaScript TypeScript Angular Microservices REST API PostgreSQL Docker Kubernetes GitLab CI/CD Jenkins Agile

Full job details


Cloud Engineer


Location: On-site (Customer Location)

Position Overview
The Cloud Engineer automates deployments, optimizes performance, and maintains secure AWS infrastructure within an Agile environment. This role handles full-stack operational support, monitoring, enterprise authentication, and technical customer service.


Key Responsibilities

  • Cloud Infrastructure & Security: Maintain AWS environment (EC2, S3, Load Balancers, RDS); ensure compliance with A&A security requirements; optimize for cost, search, and autoscaling.
  • DevOps & Automation: Automate service deployments, build CI/CD pipelines, and support containerized full-stack applications in production.
  • Software Development: Execute end-to-end feature design, refactor legacy code, write/read unit tests, and maintain relational databases.
  • Technical Support & Leadership: Gather customer requirements, resolve operational issues, produce detailed documentation, and mentor junior developers.

Qualifications & Requirements

  • Clearance & Citizenship: Active TS/SCI security clearance; U.S. Citizenship required.
  • Experience: 8+ years of IT experience.
  • Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field (or equivalent work/military experience); 8+ years of IT experience.
  • Certifications: DoD 8570 IAT Level II compliant (Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, or CCNA).

Technical Skills

  • Core: AWS Ecosystem, Linux/Windows troubleshooting, Scripting (Bash, PowerShell, or Perl).
  • Development: JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, Microservices architecture, REST API integration, Relational Databases (PostgreSQL).
  • Containers & Delivery: Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Nexus, Agile/Scrum processes.


Preferred Qualifications

  • AWS CLI and Cloud APIs.
  • Programming languages: Go, Python, Ruby, or Java.
  • Web basics: HTML, CSS, Markdown.
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.