Cloud Implementation Engineer

Kirtland
|9 years of exp
|Full Time

Posted: 1 month ago

Job Location

Kirtland

Remote Work Policy

In office

Visa Sponsorship

Not Available

RelocationAllowed

Skills

Docker

AWS

Kubernetes

Nsx

vSphere

CI/CD Pipelines

VMware Cloud Foundation

vSAN

Containerized Workloads

VMware vSphere/VCF

About the job

Job ID 2614510

Location Kirtland AFB, NM, US

Date Posted 2026-07-14

Category Information Technology

Subcategory Cloud Comp Engr

Schedule Full-Time

Shift Day Job

Travel No

Minimum Clearance Required Top_Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain TS/SCI

Potential for Remote Work ORA_ON_SITE

Description

SAIC is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to design, secure, and operate hybrid cloud infrastructure leveraging VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS in support of U.S. Space Force missions. This position is onsite at Kirtland AFB and directly supports mission-critical ground systems and operations.

Job Duties

Design, build, and maintain VMware Cloud Foundation, Kubernetes, and AWS hybrid cloud environments supporting Space Force operations.
Configure, secure, and troubleshoot vSphere, NSX, vSAN, and production-grade Kubernetes clusters.
Containerize and deploy application workloads using Docker and modern CI/CD pipelines.
Conduct root-cause analysis, performance tuning, and reliability improvements across compute, storage, and network components.
Develop and maintain system documentation, architecture artifacts, and recurring platform performance reports.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in IT, CS, engineering, or related field with 9+ years of related experience; additional experience may substitute per SAIC policy.
Active Top Secret Clearance or DOE Q clearance with SCI eligibility; able to obtain/maintain TS/SCI.
Current Security+ (or DoD 8570 IAT II equivalent) or ability to obtain within 3 months.
3+ years hands-on experience designing, configuring, and troubleshooting VMware vSphere/VCF or equivalent enterprise virtualization.
Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes and containerized workloads (Docker or similar).

Desired Skills / Experience

Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x (SDDC Manager, NSX, vSAN) and lifecycle operations.
AWS experience (GovCloud preferred) VPC design, IAM, EC2/EKS, hybrid integrations.
Familiarity with automation tools (Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD pipelines, and Git workflows.
Experience with monitoring/observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) and modern SRE/DevOps practices.