Principal Cloud Engineer

Arena Technical Resources; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Arena Technical Resources seeks a Principal Cloud Engineer to support federal projects for the Department of Transportation in Washington, DC. This hybrid role requires extensive cloud experience, focusing on deploying and configuring workloads in AWS or Azure. The successful candidate will manage cloud infrastructure, troubleshoot issues, and optimize resources. Candidates must hold relevant certifications and possess strong technical skills in a dynamic team environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience managing cloud environments.
• 12+ years in IT with 8+ years focused on AWS/Azure.
• Extensive skills in cloud provider selection and implementation.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical, managerial, and administrative direction for cloud systems.
• Diagnose and resolve complex performance and security issues.
• Collaborate with teams to evaluate and implement cloud solutions.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

Infrastructure as Code

DevOps

Troubleshooting

Agile Project Management

Education

Professional or specialty certification from a cloud provider

Professional Architect Certification within either AWS or Azure

Job description

Position Title : Principal Cloud Engineer for Department of Transportation Account

Location : Hybrid (2 days a week onsite) in the Metro DC area (or be drivable within 2 hours)

Clearance : Must be a U.S. Citizen and be able to obtain a U.S. Federal government client badge and be required to pass a government Public Trust background investigation

We are seeking an experienced Principal Cloud Engineer to join one of our federal projects supporting the Department of Transportation in the Washington, DC area. As a Cloud Engineer, youll use your experience to architect, build, and design solutions that integrate public Cloud services. You will incorporate techniques like Infrastructure as Code to ensure repeatable deployment of resources. Youll provide expertise in the use of Cloud reference architectures and solutions to support software development in a DevOps environment. You should have excellent troubleshooting skills, stay current with industry trends, and should be a team player.

Your future duties and responsibilities :

• Provide technical, managerial, and administrative direction for problem definition, analysis, requirements development and implementation for complex to extremely complex systems within cloud infrastructure. Troubleshoots cloud performance issues.
• Analyze network traffic and provide capacity planning solutions.
• Producing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or Configuration as Code (CaC), delivering solutions with a code first approach with sufficient comments and structure
• Collaborate with engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions
• Diagnose and resolve complex performance, security, and / or technical challenges
• Support all tiers of applications deployed in the cloud, configuring network, cloud native services, infrastructure, and privileges for development teams
• Identify opportunities for optimizing cloud consumption by the agency and providing strategic direction for addressing those opportunities
• Create / update cloud environment configurations to establish / support application workloads, including

Ô- Azure Focused : Configuration of Subscriptions, Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, load balancers, App Services, Azure Batch, Virtual Machines, resource tagging, billing, policy implementation, and security controls

Ô- AWS Focused : Configuration of AWS Accounts, IAM Users and Roles, VPCs, subnets, load balancers, Network routes, Transit Gateway, Control Tower, Systems Manager, Config Manager, stack sets, WAF, CloudFront, and Route53

Required qualifications to be successful in this role :

• Must have a minimum of 10 years of related experience managing cloud environments, possessing extensive skills and knowledge in cloud service provider selection, implementation techniques, application data migration techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements.
• 12+ years' experience in information technology with 8+ years of focused, hands-on experience deploying / configuring workloads within either AWS or Azure preferred experience is DevOps focused
• Must possess at least 1 Professional or specialty certification from a cloud provider
• Experience designing and implementing cloud architectures
• Strong knowledge of enterprise computing and operating systems such as Linux and Windows, and experience with troubleshooting
• Knowledge of Agile Project Management methodologies
• Experience documenting requirements, user stories, and use cases
• Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and team environment
• Professional Architect Certification within either AWS or Azure

Arena Technical Resources, LLC, (ATR) is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) who will provide equal employment opportunity to employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, color, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, veteran status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family structure, genetic information, or mental or physical disability.

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