Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

Overview DecisionPoint seeks a Lead Cloud Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain the IL5 cloud platform foundation supporting a large federal and DoD-aligned mission environment. This senior technical leadership role owns the creation and sustainment of cloud landing zones, shared services, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) templates, deployment patterns, and enterprise cloud environments that serve as the backbone for all application teams. The Lead Cloud Platform Engineer ensures cloud infrastructure is secure, reliable, scalable, and aligned with IL5, RMF, and Zero Trust cloud requirements, while enabling efficient, repeatable deployments for development, test, staging, and production environments. This position is fully remote. Duties & Responsibilities The Lead Cloud Platform Engineer will: Design, build, and maintain IL5-compliant cloud landing zones and enterprise cloud environments. Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) templates using Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent. Manage shared cloud services including networking, IAM, encryption, monitoring, logging, and DevSecOps integrations. Establish reusable deployment patterns used by all application development teams. Engineer secure VPC designs, cross-account architecture, segmentation, and network policy enforcement. Ensure compliance with IL5 requirements, RMF controls, Zero Trust principles, and DoD cloud security standards. Oversee platform performance, reliability, and scalability, implementing improvements as required. Support DevSecOps pipelines with cloud-ready configurations and automated deployment integration. Troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructure issues across networking, compute, storage, and identity layers. Optimize platform resource utilization, cost models, and scaling strategies. Produce architecture diagrams, IaC documentation, platform standards, and operational best practices. Mentor cloud engineers and support cross-team collaboration on cloud modernization and