Sr. Cloud Engineer

About this role

Company Overview

Pantheon Data (a Kenific Holding company) is a private, small business based in the Washington, DC, area. Pantheon Data was founded in 2011, initially providing acquisition and supply chain management services to the US Coast Guard. Our service offerings have grown in the past ten years, including infrastructure resiliency, contact center operations, information technology, software engineering, program management, strategic communications, engineering, and cybersecurity. We have also grown our customer base to include commercial clients. The company has used this experience to expand our service offerings to other agencies within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Defense (DoD), and other Federal Civilian Agencies.

Position Overview

Pantheon Data is seeking a Sr. Cloud Engineer to lead the operational management and technical support of AWS GovCloud (US) environments. This role is critical in hosting secure federal workloads, including Generative AI (Bedrock) and ML (SageMaker) applications. You will ensure 99.9% availability, maintain compliance with NIST 800-53 Rev 5 and CMMC 2.0 Level 2, and serve as the primary technical escalation point for developers and DevSecOps engineers.

Responsibilities

• Environment Management: Provision and manage multi-account AWS GovCloud environments using Terraform and AWS Organizations, ensuring strict isolation of CUI, commercial data.
• Cloud OperationsMonitoring: Execute day-to-day operations including automated patching (AWS Systems Manager), backup verification (AWS Backup), and continuous monitoring via Amazon CloudWatch and CloudTrail.
• SecurityCompliance Ops: Perform regular security updates, image hardening (AMI/Container), and vulnerability remediation based on Amazon Inspector and Security Hub findings. Ensure all endpoints meet FIPS 140-3 requirements.
• CI/CDDev Support: Partner with DevSecOps to integrate GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) into deployment ...