Cloud Systems Engineer (Automation / IaC)

About this role

Opportunity Overview

Northramp is seeking a Cloud Systems Engineer (Automation / IaC) to join the team supporting the client's Cloud BPA Bridge program — a mission-critical effort to consolidate, modernize, and operate client's enterprise cloud services across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments under FedRAMP High authorization.

You will design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure automation layer that enables client's multi-cloud environment to be provisioned, configured, and maintained as code. The role is central to operational reliability, configuration consistency, and the scalable enforcement of security and compliance controls across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

This role is part of Northramp’s integrated delivery model, where engineers and advisors work as one team to bring sound judgment, disciplined execution, and deep federal experience to high-stakes modernization programs.

Location & Work Arrangement

Hybrid, based in the Washington, DC metro area. On-site presence at designated client locations is expected on a cadence aligned to program needs. Remote work is supported around mission and security requirements. This role is not open to candidates outside the DC region.

The Ideal Candidate

You have built and operated IaC at scale in production federal environments — Terraform modules that are actually reusable, Ansible playbooks that run reliably, and pipelines that provision infrastructure the same way every time. You care about drift, you care about idempotency, and you have strong opinions about what good automation looks like versus automation that just happens to work once.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain reusable Terraform modules and Ansible playbooks for provisioning and configuring cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP under FedRAMP High authorization.
• Implement GitOps workflows for infrastructure change management — version-controlled, peer-reviewed, and pipeline-enforced — integrated with ...