Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer — Hands-On Platform Leader

Commonwealth of VA Careers; Virginia; On-site; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth of VA Careers seeks a Lead Cloud Solutions Engineer to guide enterprise cloud platforms and digital services for Commonwealth agencies. The role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership across Microsoft Power Platform, GitHub Enterprise, Azure, and automation to deliver secure, scalable cloud solutions.

The position requires steering complex platform initiatives, establishing repeatable standards, and mentoring cross-functional teams while aligning with state

Qualifications

• Considerable experience leading or providing technical direction to a team responsible for enterprise platforms, cloud services, application development, or automation.
• Considerable experience designing and implementing repeatable technical patterns, deployment standards, and reusable automation.
• Considerable experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, source control, scripting, or similar approaches used to automate technical operations.
• Considerable experience managing cloud-based or consumption-based services, including monitoring usage, forecasting demand, controlling costs, and establishing operational guardrails.
• Experience using reporting, logging, or monitoring tools to track items such as AI token consumption, API calls, service capacity, performance, and availability.
• Experience improving an organization’s technical posture through standardization, documentation, security controls, lifecycle management, and operational processes.
• Considerable experience integrating cloud platforms, APIs, data services, and enterprise applications.
• Considerable experience diagnosing complex technical issues and guiding them through resolution.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical execution of complex platform initiatives, including integrations, automation, deployment patterns and reusable engineering solutions.
• Develop tools and processes that improve platform administration, monitoring, reporting, licensing and management of consumption-based services such as AI credits, API usage, and cloud capacity.
• Work directly with agency and internal technical teams to translate business needs into practical solutions, develop proofs of concept, troubleshoot complex cross-platform issues and guide implementations from design through operational support.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and platform capabilities and help establish repeatable technical standards, reference architectures and engineering practices that improve security, reliability and scalability.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud platforms

Automation

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring & reporting

APIs & integrations

Security controls

Job description

Commonwealth of VA Careers seeks a Lead Cloud Solutions Engineer to guide enterprise cloud platforms and digital services for Commonwealth agencies. The role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership across Microsoft Power Platform, GitHub Enterprise, Azure, and automation to deliver secure, scalable cloud solutions.

The position requires steering complex platform initiatives, establishing repeatable standards, and mentoring cross-functional teams while aligning with state