Cloud Engineer

Encode, Inc; Virginia (MN); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Encode, Inc is looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to support commercial cloud customers in Microsoft Azure. The role involves collaboration with clients to understand environments and deploy cloud infrastructure effectively.

The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in cloud solutions, strong troubleshooting abilities, and experience with automation tools. A Bachelor's Degree and relevant certifications are preferred. This position is essential for optimizing cloud services across various applications.

Qualifications

• Senior level Cloud Engineer experience – IaaS required, some PaaS experience preferred.
• Baseline knowledge of networking concepts required.
• Experience with automation tools and scripting languages.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with customers to understand their application environments.
• Prepare and submit documentation for application deployment.
• Deploy and maintain cloud infrastructure.

Skills

Cloud Engineering

Networking Concepts

Microsoft Azure

Troubleshooting Skills

Automation Tools (Ansible, Terraform, etc.)

Education

Bachelor's Degree

CompTIA Security+ (or equivalent IA cert)

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Python

Powershell

Bash

Job description

Job Description

The Cloud Engineer will supportcommercial cloud customers who reside in Microsoft Azure (Gov/DoD). Client is a managed service provider (MSP) for and we support enterprise applications owners in migrating their systems into Microsoft Azure and also provide sustainment services to support their applications. This position is for an engineer to support these applications from a migration, modernization, and sustainment role

• Collaborate with customers to understand their application environments, evaluate any architectural changes they may need, and develop an architecture that meets the application requirements and utilizes a cloud native approach as much as possible
• Prepare and submit build and process documentation internally and with external providers to facilitate application deployment and upgrades
• Deploy and sustain cloud infrastructure to support customer applications
• Develop, deploy, and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) for deployment and sustainment of customer enclaves
• Troubleshooting and root cause analysis of customer application issues to include network, storage, operating system, and application-level analysis
• Microsoft Azure Portal administration in support of the ALTESS cloud customers –add/modify/delete Azure resources, configuration of alerting and notifications, and general oversight of Azure resources
• Provide on-call support for triage and resolution of after-hours production incidents
• Make recommendations for improvements to security, scalability, manageability, and performance across a wide variety of network, storage, and compute services and technologies

Qualifications

• Senior level Cloud Engineer experience – IaaS required, some PaaS experience preferred
• Baseline knowledge of networking concepts (routing, firewall, load balancing) required; Knowledge of server technologies and application stacks preferred
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure cloud resources
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience effectively managing multiple large-scale projects in a fast-paced environment
• Strong troubleshooting skills across the entire technology stack – network, storage, server, and applications
• Experience with automation tools and scripting languages (Ansible, Terraform, Python, Powershell, Bash, Puppet, Chef, etc.)
• Working knowledge of DoD STIGs, and IA Vulnerability Management (IAVM)
• Bachelor’s Degree at a minimum
• CompTIA Security+ (Or equivalent IA cert) and computing environment certification (i.e. Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, etc. strongly preferred)

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.