Senior Cloud Engineer – Microsoft Azure TechSur Solutions · Reston · Cloud $150,000–$165,000 4d ago

Devopsroles; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

TechSurSolutions in the DC metro area seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer with deep Microsoft Azure expertise to design, build, and operate a federal customer's Azure cloud foundation. You will implement Azure landing zones, governance, and Entra ID federation that follow enterprise architecture.

After build-out, you will own day-to-day health of the Azure environment: monitoring, patching, cost hygiene, and incident response.

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level degree required in CS/IT/Engineering or related field.
• 9+ years deploying and configuring cloud environments with Azure hands-on.
• Proven IaC experience with Terraform and/or Bicep (ARM).
• Hands-on experience with Azure landing zones, VNet design, Azure Firewall, and ExpressRoute or site-to-site VPN.
• Experience administering Entra ID, RBAC, and SSO federation (SAML 2.0/OIDC).
• Familiarity with NIST SP 800-53 controls and federal security requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy Azure landing zones using CAF concepts and hub‑and‑spoke networking.
• Develop and maintain IaC pipelines (Terraform, Bicep) and GitOps workflows for multi-environment provisioning.
• Configure Entra ID, RBAC, and federation aligned with Zero Trust principles.
• Enforce security using Azure Policy, Defender, and Sentinel per federal standards.
• Monitor and optimize cost, performance, and compliance across Azure environments.
• Respond to incidents and perform patching in 24/7 operations.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Azure expertise

Security & compliance

Automation & IaC

Collaboration & communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM (Azure Resource Manager)

Azure Landing Zones

Azure Firewall

ExpressRoute / VPN

Azure Monitor

Datadog

Splunk

Dynatrace

ServiceNow ITSM

GitHub Actions

Ansible

Job description

TechSurSolutions is a digital services company whose mission is to enable digital transformation for our customers to improve quality and efficiency.Based in the DC metropolitan area,TechSurspecializes in advanced cloud services, modernization for both ITstructuresand applications, leveraging Agile development, and Data Analytics.Since we were formed inAugust of2016,we have supported multiple impactful and excitinggovernment programs.

TechSur is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer with deep Microsoft Azure expertise to design, build, and operate a federal customer's Azure cloud foundation. You will implement Azure landing zones, management group and subscription hierarchies, hub-and-spoke networking, and Entra ID federation that follow the customer's enterprise, cloud-agnostic architecture.

After build-out, you will own day-to-day health of the Azure environment: monitoring, patching, cost hygiene, and incident response. You will automate through Infrastructure-as-Code, work alongside customer and SAIC engineers across all four cloud providers, and help customer IT teams adopt Azure safely.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and deploy Azure landing zones using the Cloud Adoption Framework, including management groups, subscriptions, and hub-and-spoke or Virtual WAN networking integrated with the customer's WAN and DNS.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Bicep) and GitOps workflows that provision consistent production, integration, development, and sandbox environments.
• Configure Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, and federation with the customer's enterprise identity provider using SAML 2.0 and OIDC, aligned with Zero Trust principles.
• Enforce security and compliance guardrails with Azure Policy, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and Microsoft Sentinel against NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 and customer security standards.
• Apply the enterprise tagging strategy for asset management, cost tracking, and chargeback/showback using Azure Cost Management and Advisor.
• Monitor environments with Azure Monitor and enterprise tools such as Datadog, Splunk, and Dynatrace; integrate events, incidents, and changes with ServiceNow.
• Perform patching (Azure Update Manager), routine maintenance, capacity planning, and rightsizing; troubleshoot and resolve incidents as part of 24/7 operations support.
• Design and test high availability, Azure Backup, and Azure Site Recovery for cloud workloads.
• Write runbooks and SOPs, supply ATO evidence, and transfer knowledge to customer operations staff.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 9 years of experience deploying and configuring cloud environments, including significant hands-on Azure work.
• Production experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and/or Bicep (ARM).
• Hands-on experience with Azure landing zones, VNet design, Azure Firewall, and ExpressRoute or site-to-site VPN.
• Experience administering Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, and single sign-on federation (SAML 2.0/OIDC).
• Experience monitoring, patching, and troubleshooting Windows and Linux workloads in Azure.
• Working knowledge of NIST SP 800-53 security controls in a federal environment.
• Ability to obtain and maintain the background investigation required by the federal customer.

Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) or DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400).
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500) or HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate.
• Experience in Azure Government or FedRAMP Moderate/High environments, including support for ATO packages.
• Working knowledge of AWS, Google Cloud, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Experience with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions pipelines, Ansible, and policy-as-code.
• Experience integrating Azure tooling with ServiceNow ITSM and CMDB.
• Prior support of a civilian federal agency.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.