Senior Azure Cloud Architect SME (Remote)

Chenega Agile Real Time Solutions, LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 159,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work allowed

Job summary

Chenega Military, Intelligence & Operations Support (MIOS) seeks an experienced Azure Systems Engineer SME to provide technical leadership for Azure cloud environments. You will design, implement, secure, and sustain Azure-based infrastructure, collaborating with government stakeholders, architects, and developers to ensure secure, scalable, and mission-aligned solutions.

The role demands deep hands-on Azure expertise, strong systems engineering background, and the ability to translate mission

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in systems engineering, infrastructure engineering, cloud engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience designing, implementing, and supporting Microsoft Azure environments.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation technologies such as Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, PowerShell, or Azure CLI.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, Azure Policy, Azure networking, and Azure security controls.
• Experience supporting hybrid cloud environments and integrating Azure with on‑premises infrastructure.
• Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure and cloud engineering issues across multiple technical domains.
• Experience with cloud security, vulnerability management, system hardening, and compliance requirements.
• Experience with DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, source control, and automated deployment practices.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior technical authority and Azure SME for design, implementation, integration, operation, and sustainment of cloud-based systems and infrastructure.
• Architect and engineer Microsoft Azure solutions supporting enterprise and mission applications, infrastructure, networking, security, identity, storage, compute, and other cloud services.
• Evaluate existing environments and develop recommendations for Azure modernization, migration, optimization, and cloud adoption.
• Design and implement Azure infrastructure using IaC and automation technologies, including tools such as Azure Bicep, ARM templates, Terraform, PowerShell, and Azure CLI.
• Develop and maintain Azure architectures that incorporate high availability, scalability, resiliency, disaster recovery, backup, monitoring, and performance requirements.
• Engineer and administer Azure networking services, including virtual networks, subnets, routing, network security groups, private endpoints, VPN/ExpressRoute connectivity, load balancing, DNS, and related services.
• Provide technical expertise in Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), identity and access management, RBAC, privileged access, authentication, and enterprise identity integration.
• Apply Azure security and compliance best practices using Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, Microsoft Sentinel, Key Vault, security baselines, and Cloud security controls.
• Support the implementation of Zero Trust principles and security architecture within Azure environments.
• Develop and maintain Azure landing zones, subscriptions, management groups, resource organization, tagging, policies, and governance structures.
• Analyze system requirements and develop technical designs, system architecture documentation, engineering plans, and implementation procedures.
• Lead or support cloud migration activities, including assessment, planning, dependency analysis, migration execution, validation, and post-migration optimization.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, identity, performance, availability, and integration issues across Azure and hybrid environments.
• Establish and maintain Azure monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational dashboards using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and related capabilities.
• Support the development and implementation of CI/CD and DevSecOps practices for infrastructure and application delivery.
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to integrate Azure infrastructure with application development, deployment, and automated testing pipelines.
• Develop automation and scripting solutions to improve operational efficiency, system reliability, configuration consistency, and repeatability.
• Evaluate new Azure services and technologies and recommend adoption where they provide measurable mission, operational, security, or cost benefits.
• Perform capacity planning, performance analysis, system optimization, and resource utilization reviews.
• Support cloud cost management, resource optimization, and FinOps activities to improve Azure resource efficiency and eliminate unnecessary expenditures.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, configuration documentation, standard operating procedures, system engineering plans, and operational runbooks.
• Participate in technical design reviews, architecture boards, engineering working groups, change control activities, and customer technical meetings.
• Provide technical mentorship and knowledge transfer to junior and mid-level engineers and administrators.
• Coordinate with cybersecurity, network, application, infrastructure, and operations teams to identify and resolve cross-functional technical issues.
• Ensure systems are engineered and maintained in accordance with applicable federal, agency, security, configuration management, and operational requirements.
• Support vulnerability remediation, security compliance, system hardening, and continuous monitoring activities.
• Assist with incident response, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and development of long-term solutions for recurring technical issues.
• Provide technical recommendations and risk assessments to government and program leadership.
• Maintain awareness of emerging Azure capabilities, cloud engineering practices, cybersecurity requirements, and industry standards applicable to federal cloud environments.
• Perform other duties as assigned in support of the program and customer mission.

Skills

Azure expertise

Cloud architectures

Infrastructure as Code

Security controls

DevSecOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

PowerShell

Azure CLI

Azure Policy

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

Security Center

Job description

Chenega Military, Intelligence & Operations Support (MIOS) seeks an experienced Azure Systems Engineer SME to provide technical leadership for Azure cloud environments. You will design, implement, secure, and sustain Azure-based infrastructure, collaborating with government stakeholders, architects, and developers to ensure secure, scalable, and mission-aligned solutions.

The role demands deep hands-on Azure expertise, strong systems engineering background, and the ability to translate mission