Cloud Engineer - Senior Principal
Washington, DC
Category: Engineer
Industry: Government
Standard Hours: Open
Reference ID: JN -112026-109441
Date Posted: 11/09/2026
Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/zlZgVX
Description:
On-site in Washington, DC
Our client seeks a Senior Principal Cloud Engineer to direct and prioritize engineering efforts across Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and Mail Engineering towers. The role will architect solutions for complex business needs, provide strategic recommendations to government engineering leads, and guide the strategy, design, implementation, and maintenance of enterprise cloud services across AWS, GWS, and Azure. The position requires deep understanding of cloud engineering, security best practices, enterprise architecture, and DevSecOps, with responsibility for mentoring engineers and communicating status to senior leadership.
Due to federal security clearance requirements, applicant must be a United States Citizen or Permanent Resident with an active Public Trust clearance. 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.
Rate: $90.00 to $100.00/hr. w2
JN -112026-109441
Responsibilities:
- Provide technical, managerial, and administrative direction for operational tasks and strategic initiatives across the enterprise.
- Lead strategy, design, implementation, and maintenance of Google Workspace and Microsoft infrastructure.
- Work with stakeholders to gather requirements and define project scope.
- Develop and implement solutions that meet mission needs.
- Stay current on computing technologies and trends.
- Mentor and develop engineers to meet organizational needs.
- Communicate status with agency senior leadership.
- Collaborate with infrastructure teams and vendors to realize operational efficiencies and rationalize best-fit solutions.
- Troubleshoot cloud performance issues and analyze network traffic to provide capacity planning solutions.
Experience Requirements:
- 15+ years of experience architecting and implementing IT solutions.
- Understanding of compute, network, and storage principles and application in AWS, GWS, and/or Azure.
- Understanding of multi-tier application architectures and cloud implementation.
- Deep knowledge of cloud engineering methods, applications, and enterprise best practices.
- Understanding of security best practices for cloud environments including access management, monitoring, and configuration management.
- Understanding of DevSecOps pipelines and toolsets for enterprise shared services.
- Deep understanding of enterprise architecture with ability to identify and solution improvements.
- Ability to prioritize and balance team activities across ad-hoc and planned initiatives.
- Experience developing, planning, and implementing strategic roadmaps.
- Preferred: Cross-cloud engineering best practices experience.
- Preferred: Assessment, customization, troubleshooting, and optimization across network, compute, and storage.
- Preferred: Experience with cloud orchestration and continuous delivery.
- Preferred: Automation with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Packer, PowerShell, or Python using remote APIs.
- Preferred: Experience with containers, orchestration, and hardening.
- Preferred: AWS Solutions Architect Associate and/or Azure Administrator Associate or higher.
- Preferred: Microsoft O365 certification or equivalent.
- Preferred: Effective customer relationship and portfolio management with Federal and Contractor leadership and end users.
- Preferred: Demonstrated team leadership and familiarity with agile planning.
- Desired: ITIL v3/v4 certification.
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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