Senior Cloud Engineer

Job Title: Senior Cloud Engineer

Location: Onsite Role (All 5 Days) in North Chesterfield, VA

Duration: 12-24+ Months Contract.

Interview process: In-Person (Face-to-Face)

Job Description:-

VSP is seeking Senior Cloud Engineers to support and enhance the agency's hybrid infrastructure across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), AWS, and on-premises environments. These engineers will bridge cloud operations with application delivery, providing secure, scalable, and cost-efficient infrastructure that supports legacy systems while guiding modernization into cloud-native architectures.


These roles require an understanding of full-stack development workflows (Java/Spring Boot backend, Angular frontend, Jenkins/Git pipelines), to optimize CI/CD and infrastructure provisioning



Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain and support OCI and AWS cloud services used by Java/JEE applications (e.g., compute, storage, networking, security).

• Assist in the deployment and operational support of legacy systems (WebSphere, Oracle RDBMS) migrated or connected to cloud.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, Ansible, and shell scripting.
• Partner with Java developers to design secure, high-availability environments for full-stack applications.
• Integrate cloud services into existing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Bamboo.
• Monitor and tune cloud resource utilization, access policies (IAM), and cost-performance metrics.
• Document cloud architecture, environment configurations, and deployment standards.

Required Skills and Experience:

• In-depth experience with full-stack development using APIs, Java, Angular, and RDBMS in both on-prem and cloud environments
• Strong knowledge and implementation experience with IaC, CI/CD, and DevSecOps practices using Jenkins or Bamboo, GitHub or BitBucket, and Terraform or Ansible
• Proven ability to deliver cloud-native solutions across AWS, OCI, Azure, or GCP environments
• Experience migrating infrastructure from on-premises to cloud while ensuring high availability and reliability
• Skilled in service and application containerization using Docker and Kubernetes
• Proficient in managing and troubleshooting enterprise-scale server environments
• Effective verbal and written communication skills across management, users, IT teams, and vendors
• Experience gathering user requirements, conducting testing, and providing training
• Skilled in creating desk procedures and technical documentation
• Exposure to web application services such as WebLogic, JBoss, Spring, and Apache

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with containerized deployment using Docker, Kubernetes, or OKE.
• Experience implementing Zero Trust architectures and automated compliance controls