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Abile Group, Inc.

Cloud Engineer

Abile Group, Inc.

Location
Onsite (Springfield, VA · St. Louis, MO)
Level
Senior Level
Posted 1 week ago

About the Role

Abile Group supports an Intelligence Community customer by delivering innovative user-facing and data center IT services across multiple security domains. The Cloud Engineer role involves maintaining AWS infrastructure, developing full-stack applications, and mentoring junior developers to ensure mission-critical system reliability.

Skills

Amazon Web Services Cloud Engineering Typescript Javascript Angular Docker Kubernetes CI/CD GitLab Jenkins Bash PowerShell Postgres REST APIs Microservices Troubleshooting

Full job details

Overview

Abile Group has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Cloiud Engineer on a 10 year contract providing User Facing and Data Center Services supporting an Intelligence Community customer. All the personnel on the team will work together to support innovative design, engineering, procurement, implementation, operations, sustainment and disposal of user facing and data center information technology (IT) services on multiple networks and security domains, at multiple locations worldwide, to support the IC mission.

 

The right candidate will possess the below skills and qualifications and be ready to handle all responsibilities independently and professionally.

Responsibilities

  • Works with A&A Team to maintain security requirements for operation of systems.
  • Maintains and improves existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc).
  • Produces detailed documentation.
  • Maintains System in AWS environment using EC2, S3, Load Balancer, and RDS.
  • Automates and optimizes service deployments.
  • Delivers a full-stack web application to production; identifies and resolves operational issues.
  • Actively participates in technical requirements-gathering process (i.e. meetings with customers).
  • Executes design and implementation of application features, independently / unassisted, with minimal oversight.
  • Refactors legacy application code for improved reliability and maintainability.
  • Mentors junior developers.
  • Writes and reads unit tests; understanding code-quality analysis concepts.
  • Writes and debuggs Javascript, Typescript, or closely-related language.
  • Developes applications backed by a relational database; understanding RDB design concepts.

Qualifications

Clearance Required: TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI Poly.

 

Degree and Years of Experience: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience

  • 8+ years IT experience

Required Certifications:

  • Meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements including one of the following:  Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, or CCNA

Desired Certifications:

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.

Required Skills:

  • Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services.
  • Strong Troubleshooting skills.
  • Experience in automating tasks using scripted languages such as Bash, PowerShell, or Perl.
  • Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology.
  • Familiarity with DevOps development processes and Continuous Integration tools: GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus.
  • Extensive Typescript or Javascript background.
  • Angular frontend framework; UI/UX design.
  • Microservice-based backend architecture; integrating with COTS/FOSS software REST APIs.
  • Supporting a full-stack application in a PaaS environment.
  • CI/CD pipeline implementation, ideally with GitLab.
  • Creating and deploying containerized applications, ideally with Docker.
  • Designing/implementing container orchestration with Kubernetes.

Desired Skills:

  • Strong understanding of cloud APIs and interaction with the AWS/CLI.
  • Experience working with one or more programming languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, or Java).
  • Experience with Go programming language.
  • Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Markdown, and portal development.
  • Database experience with a Postgres backend.
  • Strong communication skills.

 

About Abile Group, Inc.

Abile Group, founded in July 2004 to support the Intelligence Community and its contractors across Enterprise Analytics, IT & Systems Engineering, and Program & Project Management, merged with Valiant Solutions in January 2026 - an established provider of cybersecurity technologies and services for Federal Agencies since 2005. Together, this partnership creates a stronger, more integrated cybersecurity organization with expanded opportunities for employees, deeper technical collaboration, and a unified mission. With significant experience serving the Federal Government, we remain dedicated to our employees and clients and seek high‑performing professionals who excel at providing guidance, developing solutions, and delivering implementation support that blends industry best practices with client expertise and Abile’s broad technical capabilities.

Hiring Statement

Abile is committed to hiring the most qualified and best fit person for the job - always has, always will. Anyone requiring reasonable accommodations should email careers@abilegroup.com with requested details. A member of the HR team will respond to your request within 2 business days. 

 

Please review our current job openings and apply for the positions you believe may be a fit. If you are not an immediate fit, we will also keep your resume in our database for future opportunities.