Who We Are

Steampunk is the explosive collision of human-centered design and traditional government contracting. An employee-owned company with a startup mindset and time-tested approaches tailored for the federal government, we’re passionate about creating solutions that are impactful, practical, scalable, and most importantly, that meet our clients’ ever-changing needs.

At Steampunk, we believe in disrupting the status quo and setting the pace in the ecosystem of government contractors, while repurposing tried-and-true methodologies. We believe in empowering our people to find creative solutions to intractable problems. We believe the best environment in which to grow and thrive is outside our comfort zone.

While good design makes for a good product, we believe human-centered design makes for an excellent one. We also believe effective teams are powered by diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. To that end, Steampunk is an equal opportunity employer committed to promoting diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin, disability status, and protected veteran status, amongst our ranks.  Additionally, we participate in the E-Verify program.

As a Principal Cloud Engineer, you will work within our growing DevSecOps practice delivering features to support cloud migration, cloud optimization and cloud deployment. We are looking for candidates with 10+ years experience with cloud platform services and DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code and confirmation management automation. Principal Cloud Engineers have a responsibility to supporting large-scale projects, mentoring teams of engineers, being senior thought leaders, and supporting corporate sales, strategy and delivery initiatives.

Responsibilities include: 

• Identify and implement the most optimal cloud-based solutions for the customer 
• Design cloud environments and demonstrate technical cloud architectural knowledge, playing a vital role in the design of production, staging, QA, and development of cloud infrastructures running in 24×7 environments 
• Implement and oversee cloud strategies include migrations and optimization 

• Establishing development tools and infrastructure for automation 
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers 
• Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes 
• Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results 
• Perform root cause analysis on complex business processes and technical components. 

• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats 
• Identifying technical problems, performing root cause analysis, and developing software updates and ‘fixes’ 
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended 
• Support enterprise Cloud applications or infrastructure through infrastructure as code including any activities around automated server or network configurations, large-scale software deployments, and monitoring and testing, such as CI/CD  
• Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations  

• Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize and modernize software systems 
• Serves senior thought leader in the organization, that contributes to company thought leadership, best practices, and technical strategy 
• Assists in sales and technical strategy activities beyond their current program 
• Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members 
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided 

• Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other team members

Required: 

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance 
• Located in Washington DC Metro Area 

• BS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a non-IT field and 2 years related IT experience 
• 10 Years of Experience architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions  
• 10 Years of Experience with one or more clouds (i.e. AWS, Azure, or GCP) 
• 10 Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket 
• 10 Years of Experience with systems development in an Agile environment 

• 10 Years of Experience implementing infrastructure as code and orchestration 
• 10 Years of Experience integrating deployments with industry standard DevSecOps tooling and orchestration 
• 5 Years of Experience in several of the following areas: database architecture, ETL, business intelligence, big data, machine learning, advanced analytics 
• Experience with AWS
• Two of the following certifications: 
  • Google Cloud Professional Certification (preferred)
  • Azure Solutions Architect Expert (preferred)
  • AWS Certified Solution Architect - Professional (preferred)
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
  • PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • ITIL Foundations
  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

 Preferred: 

• Masters Degree in an IT-related field 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills 
• Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations preferred 
• Experience with scripting in Concourse, Bash, PowerShell, Python, Groovy, or Ruby 
• Experience implementing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes 

• Experience with automation tools, including Pivotal, Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible 

Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $175,000 to $210,000.  The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk’s total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here. 

Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors.  Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges.  As an employee owned company, we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers – and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http://www.steampunk.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.