Cloud engineer

Date: Nov 3, 2025

Location: Wright-Patterson Air Force Bas, Ohio, United States

Company: HII's Mission Technologies division

Requisition Number: 26007

Required Travel: 0 - 10%

Employment Type: Full Time/Salaried/Exempt

Anticipated Salary Range: $97,097.00 - $135,000.00

Security Clearance: Secret

Level of Experience: Mid

This opportunity resides with Warfare Systems (WS) , a business group within HII’s Mission Technologies division. Warfare Systems comprises cyber and mission IT; electronic warfare; and C5ISR systems.

HII works within our nation’s intelligence and cyber operations communities to defend our interests in cyberspace and anticipate emerging threats. Our capabilities in cybersecurity, network architecture, reverse engineering, software and hardware development uniquely enable us to support sensitive missions for the U.S. military and federal agency partners.

Meet HII’s Mission Technologies Division
Our team of more than 7,000 professionals worldwide delivers all-domain expertise and advanced technologies in service of mission partners across the globe. Mission Technologies is leading the next evolution of national defense – the data evolution - by accelerating a breadth of national security solutions for government and commercial customers. Our capabilities range from C5ISR, AI and Big Data, cyber operations and synthetic training environments to fleet sustainment, environmental remediation and the largest family of unmanned underwater vehicles in every class. Find the role that’s right for you. Apply today. We look forward to meeting you.

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Job Description

Huntington Ingalls Industries: Mission Technologies Division is actively searching for a Cloud Engineer to join our team at WPAFB, in Dayton, Ohio, to help our customer AFRL/IZX National with ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of their existing cloud environment. The ideal candidate will have a passion for technology, a strong understanding of cloud software development principles, and the ability to make a big impact on our team.

This highly skilled Cloud Engineer will need to have extensive experience in designing, deploying, and managing cloud-based solutions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure platforms. Proficient in cloud architecture, automation, and orchestration, with in-depth knowledge of services such as EC2, S3, RDS, GCP Compute Engine, BigQuery, Azure VM, SQL Database, and Functions.

Expert in implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, optimizing cloud performance, ensuring security compliance, and managing multi-cloud environments. Adept at supporting and troubleshooting current cloud computing environments, leveraging cloud-native tools and services to enhance scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency. Strong collaborator, effectively working with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative and robust cloud solutions.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, as well as opportunities for career advancement. If you are a driven and passionate software engineer looking to make a big impact, we want to hear from you!

This role can allow for hybrid work.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Builds, designs, implements, and refines cloud architectures.
• Provides prescriptive guidance across the network and security.
• Leads early scoping definitions and identifies critical dependencies.
• Identifies and mitigates technology risks and develops architecture to support processes.
• Collaborates with functional business units to drive business solutions and direction.
• Develops and documents framework for integration and implementation of cloud systems.
• Understands and determines sizing, capacity planning and requirements for infrastructure, network, and security in the cloud offering.

Minimum Qualifications

5 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 3 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; 0 years experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 9 years relevant experience.

Secret level clearance required at time of hire.

Active CompTIA Security+ certificate a minimum

Preferred Requirements

Data Platform and Big Data: Azure SQL Databases, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Delta Lake, Synapse Azure Machine Learning and Cosmos DB

Azure PaaS Services: Service Bus, Event Hub, Event Grid, Azure Functions

Logging and Monitoring: Log Analytics and Azure Monitor. Creating workbooks and alerts. Monitor Azure cloudbased systems for availability, performance, reliability, security, etc. Presentation: Azure Portal Dashboards

Identity and Authentication: Azure Active Directory, OAuth, OpenlD, SAML2 REST APIs: Experience with Azure API Manager.

Security: Familiarity with HIPAA. Understanding of securing services through managed principals, service principals, networking, and firewalls. Understanding of Identity Management and implementation through the Azure services.

DevOps: Familiarity with Terraform and Terragrunt.

High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Understanding service availability for Azure services and implementing disaster recovery.

Experience in one or more automation languages (PowerShell, Python, C#)

Bonus experience to have: Azure Cognitive Services

HII is more than a job - it’s an opportunity to build a new future. We offer competitive benefits such as best-in-class medical, dental and vision plan choices; wellness resources; employee assistance programs; Savings Plan Options (401(k)); financial planning tools, life insurance; employee discounts; paid holidays and paid time off; tuition reimbursement; as well as early childhood and post-secondary education scholarships. Bonus/other non-recurrent compensation is occasionally offered for qualified positions, and if applicable to this role will be addressed by the recruiter at the screening phase of application.

Why HII
We build the world’s most powerful, survivable naval ships and defense technology solutions that safeguard our seas, sky, land, space and cyber. Our workforce includes skilled tradespeople; artificial intelligence, machine learning (AI/ML) experts; engineers; technologists; scientists; logistics experts; and business administration professionals.

Recognized as one of America’s top large company employers, we are a values and ethics driven organization that puts people’s safety and well-being first. Regardless of your role or where you serve, at HII, you’ll find a supportive and welcoming environment, competitive benefits, and valuable educational and training programs for continual career growth at every stage of your career.

Together we are working to ensure a future where everyone can be free and thrive.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.

Do You Need Assistance?
If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Reasonable accommodations are considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address. Additionally, you may also call 1-844-849-8463 for assistance. Press #3 for HII Mission Technologies.