Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer at Rolls-Royce

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Cloud Engineer to join the US Platform Operations Team. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, securing, and maintaining cloud solutions within Microsoft Azure Government environments. The Cloud Engineer ensures that 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. The engineer collaborates with security, compliance, architecture, and operations teams to deliver reliable cloud infrastructure aligned with federal cybersecurity frameworks.

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world, at the forefront of innovation for over a century, designing, building, and servicing 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 foster a welcoming and innovative work environment that invests in you, giving you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead the design and implementation of 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.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, compliance, program management, and 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. These principles form the behaviors that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process.

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 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.
• Ability to travel as needed – up to 10%.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience writing and deploying Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code utilizing CI/CD 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, including a bonus, employee support assistance, and employee discounts. Rolls-Royce provides a comprehensive and competitive Total Rewards package that includes base pay and a discretionary bonus plan. Eligible employees may have the opportunity to enroll in other benefits, including health, dental, vision, disability, life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance; a flexible spending account; a health savings account; a 401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match; Employee Assistance Program; Paid Time Off; certain paid holidays; paid parental and family care leave; tuition reimbursement; and a long-term incentive plan.

Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. As a minimum, we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

Key skills/competency

• Azure Government
• Federal Compliance
• FedRAMP
• DoD IL4/IL5
• CMMC
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Terraform
• Bicep
• Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
• Cybersecurity