Senior Cloud Engineer/AWS Administrator

Razor is looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer/AWS Administrator to provide advanced cloud engineering, enterprise integration, and technical leadership supporting complex U.S. Government cloud environments. This role focuses on designing and integrating cloud-native capabilities, resolving advanced platform issues, and engineering sustainable solutions across containerized, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.

Education & Certification Requirements: Relevant technical education or equivalent professional experience. Kubernetes certifications such as CKAD or CKA are preferred.

Clearance Requirements: Active Top Secret/SCI (TS/SCI) clearance required for classified assignments. A full-scope polygraph may be required depending on the specific assignment and access requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, integrate, and test advanced cloud-native services
• Architect hybrid cloud solutions using containerization, Kubernetes, and serverless technologies
• Develop and integrate REST and gRPC services
• Lead advanced troubleshooting of cloud software and infrastructure
• Develop and integrate enterprise PKI and certificate-management capabilities
• Deploy and integrate SQL, NoSQL, in-memory, and object-storage technologies
• Engineer service mesh and enterprise messaging solutions
• Implement advanced automation using Ansible, Bash, Go, and related technologies
• Design monitoring, logging, metrics, and distributed tracing capabilities
• Engineer cloud-native storage and container security solutions
• Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines
• Integrate enterprise cloud networking and network mesh technologies
• Support Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, and private cloud environments
• Provide senior technical guidance across cloud engineering initiatives

Qualifications:

• 12+ years of recent programming or large-scale platform integration/automation experience
• Experience designing and developing applications in Linux environments
• 5+ years of experience with Docker or similar containerization technologies
• 7+ years of experience deploying applications using Kubernetes or similar orchestration technologies
• Advanced cloud-native and hybrid cloud experience
• Advanced AWS and multi-cloud experience
• Strong enterprise cloud integration and troubleshooting experience
• Ability to independently resolve complex distributed-system issues

Desired Skills:

• Advanced AWS administration and engineering experience
• CKAD or CKA certification
• Open-source development experience
• Advanced service mesh and distributed tracing experience
• DevSecOps and Infrastructure as Code expertise
• Enterprise PKI experience
• Experience supporting highly classified DoD or Intelligence Community environments

Employer Information: Razor is an EEO Employer. Razor is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

Benefits Overview: Razor offers a comprehensive benefits package which may include medical, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, holidays, 401(k), professional development opportunities, and other competitive benefits designed to support the health and well-being of our employees.