Cloud Engineer, Jr
Abile Group, Inc.
- Location
- Onsite (Springfield, VA · St. Louis, MO)
- Level
- Mid Level
About the role
Abile Group, a Valiant Solutions Company, is seeking a Cloud Engineer to support an Intelligence Community customer. The role involves maintaining infrastructure, optimizing CI/CD processes, and ensuring security compliance across multiple networks and domains.
Skills
Full job details
Overview
Abile Group has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Cloud Engineer, Jr 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
- Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools to automate and optimize service deployments within development, test, and production systems
Integrate with enterprise authentication services
Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc.)
Manage and aggregate server logs and monitor for security and system related incidents
Monitor and analyze system performance, such as server load and resource usage
Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation along with maintaining documentation and ensuring continuity of recurring tasks
Enforce best practices for security and reliability, and drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing
Work with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements for operation of systems
Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion
Participate in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings
On-call support will be required
Qualifications
Clearance Required: TS/SCI with eligibility to obtain CI poly
Degree and Years of Experience: Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent combination of years of experience and education.
- 3+ years of relevant experience
Desired Certifications:
- Security+ Certification
Required Skills:
- Willing to learn cross-domain services available at customer agency
- A working understanding of TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Bash
- GitLab CI/CD pipelines, typically centered around deploying or updating applications/services in OpenShift or AWS
- Strong understanding of DevSecOps and software/application development processes
- Understanding of GitLab or other DevSecOps/Continuous Integration tools
- Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design
Desired Skills:
Multi-platform integration (connecting processes and services between AWS, GitLab, OpenShift, Nexus, Self Service)
AWS serverless infrastructure components
Background as a system administrator
Cross Domain engineering
AWS Diode
- Understanding of access management and security groups (i.e. IAM, S3 bucket, SSH, VPN, etc.)
Ability to write and use unit and functional testing
Experience using Jira and Confluence
Strong written and oral communication
Customer engagement
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.