Certified Cloud Engineer - DCF

IO Datasphere, Inc.; Madison, Northern (WI, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Wisconsin Department of Children & Families (DCF) is seeking a Certified Cloud Engineer to lead development, implementation, and maintenance of a hybrid cloud platform. You will work across AWS, Azure, and Google environments, partnering with vendors and internal teams to ensure scalable, secure cloud services.

The role requires experience with IaC, containerization, CI/CD (GitHub), and operating in regulated environments, delivering reliable, cost-conscious solutions and long-term support after

Qualifications

• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting hybrid cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/Google).
• DevOps integration with .NET environments, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and configuration management.
• Strong programming/scripting and debugging skills for infrastructure and apps.
• Cloud experience in regulated organizations.
• Expertise with Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with application containerization.
• CI/CD processes using GitHub.
• Emphasis on observability, cost discipline, and security.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical oversight of cloud infrastructure and ensure compliance with standards (NIST, IRS Pub 1075).
• Participate in vendor design discussions, review architectures, and identify risks or gaps.
• Collaborate with .NET development teams on deployment, CI/CD, and IaC to enable smooth transitions.

Skills

Hybrid cloud design

DevOps integration

Infrastructure as code

Containerization

GitHub CI/CD

Observability & cost discipline

Regulated environments experience

Job description

Client Name Wisconsin Department of Children & Families (DCF)

Requisition 165748

Location Madison, WI

Duration 1+ years

Due Date 10/01/2026

C2C Possible Yes. Rate depends on experience

Interview Method MS Teams/Zoom. Possible onsite interiew prior to hire

NOTE: Must be WI resident or willing to relocate prior to start date at own expense. Hybrid: 90-100% remote but candidate should be prepared to come onsite as necessary with sufficient notice. 1000 on call hours required.

Description:

Our client is looking for a Certified Cloud Engineer who will be responsible for the development, implementation, configuration, support, and maintenance of the organization's hybrid cloud platform (AWS, Azure, Google, etc.) tenants and instances. This includes the various Cloud Platform technologies (IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS), Cloud-hosted Cloud applications, strategy, and policies. This resource will be involved in the project and will work closely with the vendor throughout development, integration, testing, deployment, and production implementation. The engineer will provide technical oversight of the cloud infrastructure and make sure that cloud services are designed and implemented in accordance with State and Federal regulations (e.g NIST, IRS Pub 1075). The resource will also be responsible for developing the technical knowledge required to assume long term ownership and support of the solution following project closeout.

The Certified Cloud Engineer will participate directly in vendor design discussions and development activities, providing guidance and review of Cloud architecture, infrastructure, networking, compute, storage, databases, security services, monitoring, logging, automation used by the solution. The engineer will review and validate the vendor's proposed architecture and configurations, identify potential risks or gaps, and make sure that cloud services are implemented using appropriate cloud best practices. The resource will also work closely with the .NET development team to support application deployment, integration, configuration, CI/CD processes, infrastructure as code, and environment management, while ensuring that the solution can be effectively supported by internal staff after transition.

Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work effectively with vendors, developers, architects, security teams, and internal IT staff. Also, effectively communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders, and transfer knowledge to internal staff to build long-term organizational capability.

Skills Required

• 3+ years - Experience in designing, implementing, and supporting hybrid (private & public) cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google, etc) with strong understanding of networking, compute, storage, security, scalability, and high availability.
• 5+ years - DevOps integration working closely with application development teams, particularly .NET environments, supporting CI/CD pipelines, application deployment, API integration, containers, configuration management, and DevSecOps practices.
• 5+ years - Strong experience in programming, scripting, configuration, troubleshooting complex infrastructure and application issues, optimizing performance and cost, and working collaboratively with vendors, architects, developers, security teams, and internal IT staff to transition solutions into long-term operational support.
• 3+ years - Cloud experience in regulated organization
• 5+ years - Infrastructure as code
• 5+ years - Application Containeraization
• 5+ years - CI/CD against GitHub
• 5+ years - Enterprise network reality, Observability and cost discipline