Senior Cloud Engineer - Azure, IaC & Security Lead

System One; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 101,000 - 117,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Job summary

System One in Washington, DC, seeks a Sr. Cloud Engineer for a contract role focused on designing, implementing, and managing cloud infrastructure in Azure with AWS integration. The candidate will emphasize security, reliability, and scalable architectures.

The role requires 8+ years in IT infrastructure, 5+ years Azure experience, and strong IaC skills (PowerShell, Bicep, ARM, Terraform). On-site work, with a path to optimization and modernization across platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field required.
• 8+ years in IT infrastructure roles with Azure focus preferred.
• Experience designing secure, highly available enterprise cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure in Azure and AWS, with Azure as primary platform.
• Ensure scalability, resiliency, and high availability; monitor and optimize cloud performance.
• Develop automation with PowerShell, Bicep, ARM templates, and Terraform; integrate with CI/CD.
• Lead migration of workloads to modern Azure cloud and hybrid architectures; provide guidance to teams.

Skills

Azure cloud engineering

Cloud security design

IaC design

DevSecOps practices

PowerShell scripting

Terraform

Bicep/ARM templates

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Azure DevOps Pipelines

RBAC and Entra Identity

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Entra Identity

Job description

System One in Washington, DC, seeks a Sr. Cloud Engineer for a contract role focused on designing, implementing, and managing cloud infrastructure in Azure with AWS integration. The candidate will emphasize security, reliability, and scalable architectures.

The role requires 8+ years in IT infrastructure, 5+ years Azure experience, and strong IaC skills (PowerShell, Bicep, ARM, Terraform). On-site work, with a path to optimization and modernization across platforms.