--- title: Cloud Engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton in McLean, VA description: Booz Allen Hamilton is hiring for the Cloud Engineer role in McLean, VA. Pays $86.9K–$198K per year. See the full description and apply. type: job url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/cloud-engineer-at-booz-allen-hamilton-01a14248-33ed-7dc0-8dcd-2639281ff2f8 date: 2026-11-15T17:42:40Z og_description: Join Booz Allen Hamilton as Cloud Engineer in McLean, VA. Pays $86.9K–$198K per year. Full-time, hybrid role. og_image: https://www.foundrole.com/og/cq7cur.png breadcrumbs: - label: Home url: https://www.foundrole.com/ - label: Search url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs --- | | | |---|---| | **Company** | [Booz Allen Hamilton](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/booz-allen-hamilton?utm_source=ai_markdown) | | **Location** | McLean, VA (Hybrid) | | **Salary** | $86.9K/yr - $198K/yr | | **Type** | Full Time | | **Posted** | Oct 15, 2026 | ## Is this job real? **Ghost job check:** A- · Low risk. Probably a real opening. ## Visa sponsorship - **H-1B:** Booz Allen Hamilton sponsors H-1B visas. It filed 10 H-1B petitions (FY2026 Q1 – FY2026 Q4). - **E-Verify:** No E-Verify enrollment on record for Booz Allen Hamilton. ## Pay for similar jobs Most similar jobs pay $102,000 – $140,000 a year (median $127,000). ## Description Cloud Engineer **The Opportunity:** Everyone is trying to “harness the cloud,” but not everyone knows how. As a cloud computing infrastructure architect, you know how to take advantage of cloud capabilities. On our team of experienced professionals, you’ll use cutting-edge enterprise cloud platforms to support your clients as they modernize their IT infrastructure and meet their most challenging missions. We’re looking for someone like you to help transform our managed platforms to support various missions. You’ll closely collaborate with fellow cloud architects and engineers specializing in Amazon Commercial, GovCloud, and Azure to build, evolve, maintain, and secure out cloud solution components. You’ll have the chance to work within a DevOps framework to create and manage container apps and use products like Kubernetes to further the mission. With access to our internal tooling and processes you’ll have the space and time to explore different ways of solving our clients’ problems, and you’ll partner with stakeholders and your team to deliver the right technical solutions. Whether modernizing legacy computing platforms and applications or creating new ones from scratch, you’ll have the latest tech and brightest teammates at your fingertips. Grow your skills at the leading edge of innovation. Join us. The world can’t wait. **You Have:** - 5+ years of experience engineering and operating cloud infrastructure in AWS, including multi-account networking with VPCs, Transit Gateway, and centralized egress and inspection - 3+ years of experience writing infrastructure as code with AWS CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation and delivering it through pull request-based CI/CD pipelines with automated tests - 3+ years of experience automating infrastructure and cost controls, including schedules, lifecycle rules, tag enforcement, and budget alerts, with Terraform, AWS CDK, or Python delivered through pull request-based CI/CD pipelines - 2+ years of experience optimizing cloud costs, including rightsizing, Savings Plans or Reserved Instance coverage, storage lifecycle policies, and off-hours scheduling, with measured savings - Experience analyzing billing data in AWS and Azure, including AWS Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage Reports, and Azure Cost Management - Experience using AI coding assistants or agents in daily engineering work and reviewing and validating AI-generated infrastructure code before it ships - Bachelor’s degree in a Computer Science or Information Systems field - DoD 8140 IAT Level II Certification such as Security+ CE Certification **Nice If You Have:** - Experience with cloud management and cost platforms, including Kion, CloudHealth, or Apptio Cloudability, including project budgets and spend enforcement - Experience implementing showback or chargeback, including cost allocation tags, account hierarchies, and shared-cost splits for multi-tenant platforms - Experience optimizing AI and LLM spend, including Amazon Bedrock, prompt caching, model routing, and batch inference - Experience with Azure commercial levers, including reservations, savings plans, and Azure Hybrid Benefit - Experience optimizing network and logging costs, including Transit Gateway, NAT gateways, public IPv4, CloudTrail, and CloudWatch log retention - Experience supporting AWS GovCloud or DoD Impact Level 5 environments, including GovCloud billing through paired commercial accounts - Knowledge of the FinOps Foundation Framework, including unit economics and cost forecastingeconomics and cost forecasting **Clearance:** Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. **Compensation** At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page. Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $86,900.00 to $198,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date. **Identity Statement** As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. **Candidate AI Usage Policy** AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on **your** own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited **unless permission is explicitly provided**. **Work Model** Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings. - **Remote**: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility. - **Hybrid**: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen or customer facility, in alignment with your leadership's expectations and the needs of the role. - **Onsite**: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed full-time at a customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role. **Commitment to Non-Discrimination** All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law. ## Skills - Cloud Computing - LLM Model Routing - AWS Transit Gateway - Amazon Web Services - Inspection - Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - Investigation - Amazon CloudWatch - DoD IAT Level II Certification - Caching - Logging - Python - Chargeback Management - Cost Allocation - AWS Cost Explorer - DoD 8140 (Cyberspace Workforce) - Artificial Intelligence - Microsoft Azure - Terraform - Cloud Rightsizing - Billing - Information Systems - CI/CD - Unit Economics - Showback - AI-Assisted Coding - Cloud Management - IPv4 - AWS Cloud Development Kit (Cdk) - Large Language Models (Llm) - Cost Control - Cloud Infrastructure - Cloud Financial Management (FinOps) - Cost Management - Computer Science - Amazon Bedrock - Multi-Tenant Architecture - Reservation Management - Forecasting - Network Address Translation (Nat) - Writing - AWS CloudFormation - Budgeting - AWS CloudTrail - AWS GovCloud - CompTIA Security+ ## Benefits - Financial Aid/Assistance - Professional Development - Health Insurance - Disability Insurance - Life Insurance ## Related - [More jobs at Booz Allen Hamilton](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/booz-allen-hamilton?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Technology & Software jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Cloud & DevOps jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software/cloud-and-devops?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [DevOps Engineer jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software/cloud-and-devops/devops-engineer?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Browse all companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) ## Explore this job market - [Virginia](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/virginia?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 99733 jobs - [Defense and Space](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/aerospace-and-defense/defense-and-space?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 61184 jobs - [McLean, VA](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/virginia/mclean?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 5846 jobs - [Booz Allen Hamilton](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/booz-allen-hamilton?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 2647 jobs ## Related pages - [Virginia](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/virginia?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 99733 jobs - [Defense and Space](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/aerospace-and-defense/defense-and-space?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 61184 jobs - [McLean, VA](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/virginia/mclean?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 5846 jobs - [Booz Allen Hamilton](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/booz-allen-hamilton?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 2647 jobs ## Browse - [Companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by country](https://www.foundrole.com/locations?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs in the United States by state and city](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B sponsors by location](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-sponsors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B salaries](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-salaries?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Sectors and industries](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by career field](https://www.foundrole.com/careers?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Latest jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/latest?utm_source=ai_markdown)