Lead Senior Cloud Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 13 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
The role offers high value due to its strategic impact in government operations, aligning with a recognized employer brand and competitive compensation for the cloud engineering domain.
- Crucial role within U.S. government cloud operations
- Recognized military-friendly employer
- Generous compensation for skilled engineers
- High experience requirement may limit entry
Pros
- Significant role impacting U.S. government operations with high visibility
- Strong employer brand recognized for veteran hiring
- Opportunities for professional development in cloud technologies
Cons
- Requires extensive experience (15+ years) which limits candidate pool
- Government environments may entail bureaucratic procedures
- Physical demands could affect some candidates
Who it's for
Senior / Lead • On-site in D.C.
Good fit
- Experienced AWS cloud professionals
- Candidates with expertise in government-related IT projects
- Individuals looking to utilize their skills in public service
Not recommended for
- Entry-level IT professionals
- Those who prefer fully remote work settings
- Candidates seeking roles with lower experience expectations
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Overview
Empower AI is AI for government. Empower AI gives federal agency leaders the tools to elevate the potential of their workforce with a direct path for meaningful transformation. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Empower AI leverages three decades of experience solving complex challenges in Health, Defense, and Civilian missions. Our proven Empower AI Platform® provides a practical, sustainable path for clients to achieve transformation that is true to who they are, what they do, how they work, with the resources they have. The result is a government workforce that is exponentially more creative and productive. For more information, visit www.Empower.ai.
Empower AI is proud to be recognized as a 2024 Military Friendly Employer by Viqtory, the publisher of G.I. Jobs. This designation reflects the company’s commitment to hiring and supporting active-duty and veteran employees.
Responsibilities
As a Senior Cloud Engineer for Empower AI, Inc., you will serve as a critical component in meeting our mission of providing excellent services to our client. Your experience ensures an exciting and rewarding opportunity to be at the forefront of providing required support to the United States Mint. In assuming this position, you will be a critical contributor to meeting Empower AI, Inc.’s mission: To deliver innovative, cost-effective solutions and services that enable our customers to rapidly adapt to dynamic environments.
Highlights of Responsibilities:
- Responsible for all activities relating to information assurance procedures and systems
- Develops information systems assurance programs and control guidelines
- Confers with and advises subordinates on administrative policies and procedures and resolving technical problems, priorities, and methods
- Consults with and advises other sections regarding internal controls and security procedures
- Prepares activity and progress reports relating to the information systems audit function
Qualifications
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree Info Systems/Relevant Field
- AWS Solutions Architect or AWS SysOps Administrator
- Minimum 15 years data center services experience.
- Practical skills, training, experience, and strong understandings of design, configuring, deploying, troubleshooting, and maintaining Amazon Elastic bean (EC2), Simple Storage Services (S3), Elastic block storage), Cloud for cloud hosting, and future AWS offerings.
- Ability to keep sensitive and confidential material private.
Physical Requirements:
This position requires the ability to perform the below essential functions:
- Sitting for long periods
- Standing for long periods
- Ambulate throughout an office
- Ambulate between several buildings
- Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl as required
About Empower AI
All hiring and promotion decisions at Empower AI are based on merit to bring the best talent available to contribute to our firm’s overall success. It is the policy of Empower AI not to discriminate against any applicant for employment, or employee because of age, color, sex, disability, national origin, race, religion, or veteran status. Empower AI is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.
