Cloud Engineers, Senior Engineers, Architects & Automation Specialists (CBP)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection runs continuous operations across more than 300 land, air, and sea ports of entry, plus Border Patrol stations and the Air and Marine Operations Center. The applications behind that work do not get a maintenance evening. When a service is slow or unavailable, an officer is standing at a checkpoint waiting on a biometric check, or an agent is running out of time on a court-mandated processing deadline. DHS oversight reviews have documented outages that halted passenger screening applications for hundreds of hours, and processing records that arrived too late to prosecute. We are hiring cloud engineers, architects, and automation specialists to build and run the environments those applications depend on. You will work on infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, identity and access, monitoring, resilience, and cost, alongside network engineers, security staff, and the field teams who deal with what happens at the sites themselves.

Responsibilities

Build and run the environments that CBP applications depend on; Work on infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, identity and access, monitoring, resilience, and cost; Make new services work with legacy systems; Stand up cloud environments that hold up under continuous operational load; Replace manual work with automation people are willing to trust; Ensure security controls are designed in and can be explained to a security reviewer

Requirements

Active Top Secret with SCI eligibility; Ability to obtain and maintain a CBP Background Investigation (CBP BI) and EOD; U.S. Citizenship required

Nice to have

Run production workloads in a government cloud environment where an outage cost something beyond a missed sprint; Written infrastructure as code that other people used without needing you in the room to explain it; Taken a system through a federal authorization process and can say what you would do differently the next time; Integrated cloud services with legacy systems you could not replace and can describe the compromises you made; Hold an active CBP BI, a fitness determination at another DHS component, or an active DoD clearance; Work comfortably in more than one platform's tooling and are not dependent on a single vendor's console; Cloud platform and security certifications

Benefits

Health Insurance; Life Insurance; Paid Time Off; Holiday Pay; Short-term and long-term Disability; Retirement; Learning and Development opportunities; Optional benefit elections; $10,000 signing bonus for candidates with an active CBP BI, payable after 90 days; standard terms apply