Engineering Delivery Manager II, Cloud Systems Admin (TS Cleared, Onsite)

Our Deloitte AI & Engineering team transform technology platforms, drive innovation, and help make a significant impact on our clients' success. You'll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and reengineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses. Your contributions can help clients improve financial performance, accelerate new digital ventures, and fuel growth through innovation.

Work You'll Do

As a Project Delivery Manager and Cloud Systems Administrator on the project, you will administer and sustain secure cloud infrastructure supporting multiple classification levels, including DoD Impact Level (IL) 4/IL5 environments. This role requires advanced cloud administration expertise, strong reliability discipline in production operations, and deep familiarity with Department of Defense (DoD) compliance requirements.

• Administer and sustain secure cloud infrastructure across multiple classification levels, including DoD IL4/IL5 environments; configure compute, storage, networking, VMs, and containers
• Implement and operate Infrastructure as Code (IaC) at scale (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM) to standardize, automate, and govern deployments
• Monitor and optimize production environments for availability, performance, security posture, capacity, and cost, using enterprise observability and tuning practices
• Ensure compliance and audit readiness by partnering with security teams on RMF, NIST, STIGs, DoD 8140, vulnerability remediation, and ATO/accreditation activities
• Lead incident troubleshooting and resilience planning, including backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity for mission-critical systems; support 24/7 operations and on-call rotation
• Drive secure modernization by leading cloud migrations, integrating with DevSecOps, enforcing privileged access/zero trust, mentoring junior staff, and maintaining technical documentation/stakeholder engagement

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to provide clear guidance to others

The Team

Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes - is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure offering provides specialized engineering capabilities to design, implement, manage, and operate hybrid cloud environments, modernize networks and AI infrastructure from the core to the edge, and incubate new infrastructure and device services to help clients stay ahead with the latest technology advances.

The Project Delivery Talent Model is designed for professionals with specialized skills that align to a current client need. Team members focus on delivering services to clients, without additional expectations related to business development or promotion. Their employment is tied to their role on a project, and they are eligible for a benefits package that is competitive for project delivery-focused professionals.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree required.
• At least 5+ years of experience within the following:
• Experience administering secure cloud infrastructure in compliance-heavy environments
• Proven experience implementing IaC at scale and operating production cloud systems with strong reliability discipline
• Hands-on Linux administration experience (RHCSA-aligned)
• Hands-on Kubernetes operations and deployments (CKA/CKAD-aligned)
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Cloud Infrastructure
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
• Active TS clearance required with the eligibility to obtain an SCI.
• Ability to be on site in Arlington, VA 4 days a week

Preferred:

• CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional)
• RHCSA (Red Hat Certified System Administrator)
• CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator)
• APMG Accredited Trainer - CISM (Certified Information Security Manager)
• CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Application Developer)