Senior Cloud Engineer

Job Overview

Working Pattern: Full time

Working location: Remote

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the US Platform Operations Team. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, securing, and maintaining cloud solutions within Microsoft Azure Government environments. You will ensure systems meet strict federal compliance standards including FedRAMP High, DoD IL4/IL5, GCC High, and CMMC while enabling secure, scalable, and mission-critical cloud services for government and defense clients.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere. We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future.

Rolls-Royce is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead the design and implementation of a secure and scalable Azure Government Cloud architectures.
• Ensure solutions align with federal standards (FedRAMP, NIST 800-171, CMMC L2).
• Manage day-to-day operations of Azure Government Cloud instances including monitoring, patching, and incident response.
• Lead US Platform Operations Team with best practices of utilizing DevSecOps.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, compliance, program management, and executive leadership teams to implement project workstreams.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates using ARM, Bicep, or Terraform for repeatable and automated deployments.

Who We're Looking For

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference.

Basic Requirements

• Associate's degree with 7+ years in Cloud or related IT experience OR,
• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years Cloud or related IT experience OR,
• Master's Degree experience with 3 + years of Cloud or related IT experience OR,
• PhD/JD with experience in Cloud or related IT experience.
• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be able to travel up to 10%.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience writing and deploying Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code utilizing CICD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of Cloud Role Based Access models.
• Resilient, self-motivated and accomplished at forming relationships and influencing people at all levels in the company.

What We Offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

For fully remote roles, employees can live in any state except Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada, Vermont, and Wyoming.

Closing Date: May 25th, 2026

Benefits

Rolls-Royce provides a comprehensive and competitive Total Rewards package that includes base pay, a discretionary bonus plan, health, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, Paid Time Off, and more. Options vary based on eligibility factors.