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

 

 

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

Clearance: Active CBP Background Investigation (CBP BI) and EOD strongly preferred. We can begin processing for candidates who do not hold one.

Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship required

Location: Ashurn, VA - Hybrid

Salary Range: [Pending]

Signing Bonus: $10,000 for candidates with an active CBP BI. Payable after 90 days; standard terms apply.

Travel: Rare, as needed

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.

 

Two things are worth knowing before you apply. Federal accreditation governs the pace here, so a design that cannot be explained to a security reviewer is not finished, no matter how well it runs. And the cloud is not the whole environment. A meaningful part of the job is making new services work with systems that were built long before anyone used the word cloud, and that are not going away on your schedule.

Objective 1: Stand up cloud environments that hold up under continuous operational load

⠀Objective 2: Replace manual work with automation people are willing to trust

⠀Objective 3: Clear accreditation without letting it become the project

We are hiring across several levels, plus one specialist lane. You do not need to pick one before applying. Tell us where you think you land and we will talk about it.

Preferred Experience

We are staffing this program now. If you already hold an active CBP BI and EOD, your start date is short and a $10,000 signing bonus comes with the role, payable after 90 days under standard terms. We would like to talk this week.

If you do not, we can begin processing a CBP BI for you. That takes months rather than weeks, so applying now means joining a pipeline rather than starting immediately. We would rather tell you that up front than have you find out after you apply.