Lead Cloud Solutions Engineer

Commonwealth of VA Careers; Virginia; On-site; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth of VA Careers seeks a Lead Cloud Solutions Engineer to guide enterprise cloud platforms and digital services for Commonwealth agencies. The role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership across Microsoft Power Platform, GitHub Enterprise, Azure, and automation to deliver secure, scalable cloud solutions.

The position requires steering complex platform initiatives, establishing repeatable standards, and mentoring cross-functional teams while aligning with state

Qualifications

• Considerable experience leading or providing technical direction to a team responsible for enterprise platforms, cloud services, application development, or automation.
• Considerable experience designing and implementing repeatable technical patterns, deployment standards, and reusable automation.
• Considerable experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, source control, scripting, or similar approaches used to automate technical operations.
• Considerable experience managing cloud-based or consumption-based services, including monitoring usage, forecasting demand, controlling costs, and establishing operational guardrails.
• Experience using reporting, logging, or monitoring tools to track items such as AI token consumption, API calls, service capacity, performance, and availability.
• Experience improving an organization’s technical posture through standardization, documentation, security controls, lifecycle management, and operational processes.
• Considerable experience integrating cloud platforms, APIs, data services, and enterprise applications.
• Considerable experience diagnosing complex technical issues and guiding them through resolution.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical execution of complex platform initiatives, including integrations, automation, deployment patterns and reusable engineering solutions.
• Develop tools and processes that improve platform administration, monitoring, reporting, licensing and management of consumption-based services such as AI credits, API usage, and cloud capacity.
• Work directly with agency and internal technical teams to translate business needs into practical solutions, develop proofs of concept, troubleshoot complex cross-platform issues and guide implementations from design through operational support.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and platform capabilities and help establish repeatable technical standards, reference architectures and engineering practices that improve security, reliability and scalability.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud platforms

Automation

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring & reporting

APIs & integrations

Security controls

Job description

Title: Lead Cloud Solutions Engineer

State Role Title:Info Technology Specialist III

Hiring Range: $140,000 - $150,000

Pay Band: 6

Agency: VA Information Tech Agency

Location:VA Information Technologies

Agency Website:https://www.vita.virginia.gov/

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

The Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) is excited to offer a competitive opportunity to serve as a Lead Cloud Solutions Engineer with the Business Platform Solutions Team.

The Lead Cloud Solutions Engineer will serve as a senior, hands-on technical resource for VITA's Business Platform Solutions Team, which provides enterprise cloud platforms and digital services to Commonwealth agencies.

Design, develop and implement secure, supportable solutions across Microsoft Power Platform, GitHub Enterprise, Adobe Management Platform, Box Enterprise Content Management, Azure-based services and robotic process automation.

Lead the technical execution of complex platform initiatives, including integrations, automation, deployment patterns and reusable engineering solutions. Develop tools and processes that improve platform administration, monitoring, reporting, licensing and management of consumption-based services such as AI credits, API usage, and cloud capacity.

Work directly with agency and internal technical teams to translate business needs into practical solutions, develop proofs of concept, troubleshoot complex cross-platform issues and guide implementations from design through operational support.

Evaluate emerging technologies and platform capabilities and help establish repeatable technical standards, reference architectures and engineering practices that improve security, reliability and scalability.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role that works under the operational and architectural direction of the Platform Operations Manager and does not directly manage or supervise staff.

Join VITA at The Boulders in Richmond, VA, where innovation meets impact! As the Commonwealth's leading IT agency, we’re connecting, protecting, innovating, and powering Virginia’s digital future through collaboration, creativity, and purpose. Our team thrives in a vibrant, customer-focused environment that values growth, accountability, and forward thinking — all while making technology work for every corner of Virginia.

Minimum Qualifications

Considerable experience leading or providing technical direction to a team responsible for enterprise platforms, cloud services, application development, or automation.

Considerable experience designing and implementing repeatable technical patterns, deployment standards, and reusable automation.

Considerable experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, source control, scripting, or similar approaches used to automate technical operations.

Considerable experience managing cloud-based or consumption-based services, including monitoring usage, forecasting demand, controlling costs, and establishing operational guardrails.

Experience using reporting, logging, or monitoring tools to track items such as AI token consumption, API calls, service capacity, performance, and availability.

Experience improving an organization’s technical posture through standardization, documentation, security controls, lifecycle management, and operational processes.

Considerable experience integrating cloud platforms, APIs, data services, and enterprise applications.

Considerable experience diagnosing complex technical issues and guiding them through resolution.

Additional Considerations

Experience working with state agencies in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Equal Opportunity Statement

The Commonwealth of Virginia welcomes all applicants authorized to work in the United States. Sponsorship is not provided; therefore, applicants must be a citizen or national of the U.S., a Lawful Permanent Resident, or an alien authorized to work.

Reasonable accommodations are available to persons with disabilities during the application and/or interview processes per the Americans with Disabilities Act.

VITA is a "Virginia Values Veterans" (V3) official certified state agency that provides hiring preference to Veterans and Members of the Virginia National Guard in support of Executive Order 29, (2010). If you are a Veteran or Virginia National Guard Member, we encourage you to apply and receive preference in the hiring process. AmeriCorps, Peace Corps and other national service alumni also are encouraged to apply.

Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.

Contact Information

Name: VITA Human Resources

Phone: [e-mail]

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