# Cloud Engineers, Senior Engineers, Architects & Automation Specialists (CBP) - **Company:** [agile-defense](/companies/agile-defense) - **Location:** Ashburn, VA - **Type:** hybrid - **Posted:** Aug 20, 2026 - **Views:** 4 ## Summary Agile Defense, a government IT contractor supporting U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), is hiring Cloud Engineers, Senior Engineers, Architects, and Automation Specialists in Ashburn, VA (hybrid). The role focuses on infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, identity/access, monitoring, and resilience in government cloud environments, with a need to integrate legacy systems. Requires U.S. citizenship and an active CBP BI (or ability to process), with a $10,000 signing bonus for those holding an active CBP BI. Experience with federal accreditation and multi-platform cloud tooling is preferred. --- ## Job Description <div><strong><span>About Agile Defense</span></strong></div> <div> </div> <div><span>At Agile Defense we know that action defines the outcome and new challenges require new solutions. That’s why we always look to the future and embrace change with an unmovable spirit and the courage to build for what comes next.</span></div> <div> </div> <div><span>Our vision is to bring adaptive innovation to support our nation's most important missions through the seamless integration of advanced technologies, elite minds, and unparalleled agility—leveraging a foundation of speed, flexibility, and ingenuity to strengthen and protect our nation’s vital interests.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Title: Cloud Engineers, Senior Engineers, Architects &amp; Automation Specialists (CBP)</div> <div>Clearance: Active CBP Background Investigation (CBP BI) and EOD strongly preferred. We can begin processing for candidates who do not hold one.</div> <div>Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship required</div> <div>Location: Ashurn, VA - Hybrid</div> <div>Salary Range: [Pending]</div> <div>Signing Bonus: $10,000 for candidates with an active CBP BI. Payable after 90 days; standard terms apply.</div> <div>Travel: Rare, as needed</div> <h3>The Work</h3> <div>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.</div> <div> </div> <div>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.</div> <div> </div> <div>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.</div> <h3>What Success Looks Like</h3> <div>Objective 1: Stand up cloud environments that hold up under continuous operational load</div> <ul> <li>Services you deploy survive their first real peak without emergency intervention.</li> <li>The failure of one component degrades the service rather than stopping it.</li> <li>Someone on call at two in the morning can tell what broke from the telemetry, without calling you to interpret it.</li> <li>Capacity and cost decisions get made before somebody escalates them.</li> </ul> <div>⠀Objective 2: Replace manual work with automation people are willing to trust</div> <ul> <li>Environments get rebuilt from code, and the code matches what is actually running.</li> <li>Deployments that used to need a person watching them now run unattended.</li> <li>When automation fails, it fails visibly and... --- ## Apply [Apply for this position](https://jobs.lever.co/agile-defense/4e7202a0-c01d-4d73-a699-09e42a05cfbf) --- ## About agile-defense [View company profile →](/companies/agile-defense)