Senior Azure Cloud Computing Engineer

SAIC; Massachusetts; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Azure Cloud Computing Engineer to join their innovative Cloud One program. This role involves designing and integrating cloud systems, maintaining expertise in Azure technologies, and collaborating within an Agile framework. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with Azure services, Terraform, and DevOps practices, contributing to mission-critical projects for the U.S. Air Force and Army. This position offers the opportunity to work remotely, providing a dynamic environment where your skills can directly impact the efficiency and effectiveness of military IT operations.

Qualifications

• Expert understanding of Azure deployments and IaC technologies.
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps workflows using Azure services.

Responsibilities

• Design and integrate cloud computing and virtualization systems.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure problems and resolve production issues.

Skills

Azure Cloud Computing

Terraform

Powershell

Python

DevSecOps

Agile

CI/CD

Scripting

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

Azure Portal

Ansible

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitLab

Job description

SAIC is seeking a Senior Azure Cloud Computing Engineer for the Cloud One program under the Air Force Lifecycle Management Center Office for Network Integration (AFLCMC/HNI). The Cloud One Common Computing Environment is an existing global, interconnected, virtualized, hybrid, and IT infrastructure hosting mission systems, applications, services, and data that will serve the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and U.S. Army (USA). Cloud One incorporates the capabilities of commercial cloud and Managed Service Providers (MSP) residing in Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). Cloud One facilitates the USAF and USA’s efforts to migrate applications to a cloud environment, allowing the closure of data centers to support the Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) and allowing for increased efficiencies across the entire spectrum of the USAF and USA's IT operations. This candidate will be part of a team responsible for the management, operations, support, and oversight of the Cloud One Azure environments.

This position is 100% remote.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design, plan, and integrate cloud computing and virtualization systems.
• Identify, evaluate, and implement tools and services for the most efficient solution to enhance capabilities of cloud-based and virtualized services and meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements.
• Develop and conduct testing of cloud and virtualization systems.
• Maintain subject matter expertise in Azure industry standards and in related cloud computing and virtualization technologies such as cloud service provider architecture, design, and configuration; cloud deployment models including public, community, private, and hybrid; cloud service delivery models including infrastructure-, platform-, and software-as-a-service; automation; hypervisors; containers; virtual compute, storage, and networks; virtual infrastructure management; self-provisioning; and scaling.
• Advise and assist the team lead to forecast, develop, and prioritize roadmap items to meet current and anticipated operational requirements.
• Work within the Agile Framework to meet operational and scheduling objectives.
• Research and evaluate technical capabilities and new security tools and products to satisfy operational requirements and develop implementation strategies to introduce them into the enterprise in alignment with C1 strategy.
• Identify and develop technical solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity, creativity, and considerable experience, within the bounds of administrative and operational constraints and with minimal oversight.
• Work independently or as part of a team in a virtualized Azure cloud environment via both graphical (Azure Portal) and command-line interfaces (Powershell, CloudShell, Red Hat Linux, Windows Server Core).
• Work with and assist other team members in utilizing automated configuration management tools, including software such as Powershell, Ansible, Terraform, Kusto Query Language, and Desired State Configuration.
• Employ security, automation, and orchestration to enable continuous integration and continuous delivery of applications and infrastructure at scale.
• Troubleshoot complex and nuanced infrastructure problems and work with a team to resolve large-scale production issues.
• Assist fellow engineers to resolve blockers and complete assigned tasks within prescribed scheduling and architectural constraints.
• Minimize risk of reliability-related failure outcomes as pertaining to durability, availability, performance, and correctness.
• Proactively identify and resolve operational, tooling, and process inefficiencies.
• Identify and implement creative solutions to resolve the most complex customer incident tickets promptly and maintain regular contact with customers for the duration of the incident.

Qualifications

Required Clearance:

• Secret clearance required to start.
• US citizenship required.

Required Certifications:

• Security+ Certification.

Required Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's and nine (9) years of experience; Masters and seven (7) years of experience.
• Additional years of experience accepted in lieu of degree.

Required Qualifications:

• Expert understanding of, and experience with, deployments of various systems and services to Azure cloud environments via Terraform, Terragrunt, and other IaC technologies.
• Expert knowledge of the Azure cloud environment and Azure services, including Azure Domain Services, Entra ID, Azure Managed Service Identity, Azure Automation, Azure Functions, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Desired State Config (DSC), Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Policy, and Azure App Service.
• Expertise in working projects that use CI/CD and streamlined DevOps workflows such as Azure Pipelines/TFS, GitLab.
• Expertise with scripting using Windows PowerShell, Shell scripts, Python, Bash, or other similar languages.
• Experience working on integrated teams requiring high levels of customer contact and collaboration, design, implementation, and involvement in project planning.
• Experience with DevSecOps, Agile, Scrum, SAFe or other modern software development methods/practices.
• Experience in design and implementation of IaaS and PaaS solutions executed and repeated in DevOps solution framework and with DevOps tools using Azure DevOps and GitLab.

Desired Qualifications:

• AZ-305, AZ-400, other Microsoft Azure certifications.
• SAFe DevOps certification.
• Experience supporting software migration efforts.
• Experience working DoD/government contracts highly desirable.