Senior Principal Cloud Engineer

Senior Principal Cloud Engineer

Washington, DC

Type: Contract-to-Hire

Category: Architecture

Industry: Government

Reference ID: JN -

Date Posted: 09/24/2025

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Description:

We are looking for a Senior Principal Cloud Engineer to join our team.

Minimum 15+ years of IT experience. Must have a minimum of 10 years of related experience managing cloud environments, possessing extensive skills and knowledge in cloud service provider selection, implementation techniques, application data migration techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements.

Demonstrated understanding of compute, network, and storage principles.

Demonstrated proficiency in managing a large Organization with Organization Units, Policies, and configurations to maintain compliance.

Must possess at least 1 Professional or Specialty certification from a cloud provider.

Hourly Rate: $85-95/hr. W2

Location: Washington, DC (Hybrid)

This is a contract-to-hire opportunity. Applicants must be willing and able to work on a W2 basis and convert to FTE following contract duration. For our W2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Responsibilities:

Job Role Specific Responsibilities:

• Solid experience with PrismaCloud platform and familiarity with PaloAlto services

• Support strategic cloud initiatives, such as TIC 3.0, Zero Trust Architectures, and DevSecOps by providing architectural guidance and hands on implementation approach

• Identify and communicate opportunities for improving agency security posture within cloud environments

• Collaborate with external development teams to validate solution architecture within agency cloud environment

• Identify opportunities to periodically review and improve Service Control Policies, Configs, remediations

• Monitor alerts for security upgrades and risks as well as notifications from AWS and Azure

• Design and buildout of AWS environments using the console, CLI, and Infrastructure as Code

• Deploy CloudFormation IAC stacks/sets across Accounts

• Support all tiers of applications deployed in the cloud, configuring network, cloud native services, infrastructure, and privileges for development teams (AWS Accounts, IAM Users and Roles, VPCs, cloud native services)

• Identify opportunities for optimizing cloud consumption by the agency

• Support migration of on-premise workloads to the cloud following agency governance and reference architectures

• Recommend enterprise design improvements to comply with Federal policies and standards

Experience Requirements:

Job Role Specific Requirements:

• Experience implementing, managing, and supporting security products to protect workloads in AWS

• Good understanding of FedRAMP services and best practices for their consumption by application workloads - examples include API Gateway, Lambda functions, Cognito, AWS Code Commit, and container services

• Experience assessing, customizing, troubleshooting, optimizing, and maintaining current and emerging technologies, platforms, and applications to help ensure greater security and efficiencies, inclusive of containers

• Demonstrated understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices across cloud service providers.

• Demonstrated proficiency with implementing and managing AWS services via AWS Console or CLI of AWS accounts, IAM users, IAM roles, VPCs, load balancers.

• Experience managing AWS Public and GovCloud across regions.

• Experience with deploying stack sets and using AWS Control Tower.

• Good knowledge of GovCloud organizations provision accounts using Compliance Framework.

• Proficiency in automating processes with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Packer, PowerShell, or Python, including use of remote APIs

• Experience with cloud orchestration tools and continuous delivery processes to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure for customers to consume

Note: Candidate must be a U.S. citizen or green card holder who has resided in the U.S. for at least 3 years and

the ability to obtain a public trust

Education Requirements:

Job Role Specific Education:

• Bachelor's degree is required.

• Must possess at least 1 Professional or Specialty certification from a cloud provider.

Note: Candidate must be a U.S. citizen or green card holder who has resided in the U.S. for at least 3 years and the ability to obtain a public trust

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.

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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company for human-powered solutions. For over 30 years, Eliassen has helped thousands of companies reach further and achieve more with their technology solutions, financial, risk & compliance, and advisory solutions, and clinical solutions. With offices from coast to coast and throughout Europe, Eliassen provides a local community presence, balanced with international reach. Eliassen Group strives to positively impact the lives of their employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which they operate.

Eliassen Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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