Sr. Network Engineer/CMMC

The Maasai Group Llc; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The Maasai Group Llc seeks an experienced Cloud Engineer to implement, maintain, and optimize on-premise and Azure cloud environments. You will support hybrid and AWS infrastructures, collaborating with the engineering team to drive DevOps and infrastructure automation.

The role requires strong VMware, Windows, Linux, and SAN/NAS skills, 7+ years in system administration, and an active Top-Secret clearance. A deep understanding of IaaS/PaaS/SaaS and hybrid deployments is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years in system administration in a large enterprise.
• Active Top-Secret Security Clearance.
• 5+ years system administration experience in Microsoft Azure cloud.
• Strong understanding of cloud architectures across IaaS, PaaS, SaaS in Private/Public/Hybrid environments.
• Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure, networking, IAM, and scripting (Perl/Python/Shell).
• Hands-on knowledge of public and hybrid-cloud tools/automation.
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure Administrator Associate certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide SME for Azure cloud services and virtualization, including AWS integration.
• Perform system administration tasks: OS installation, patches, upgrades.
• Drive infrastructure automation and DevOps practices with engineering teams.
• Analyze performance and optimize virtualized, storage, and cloud environments.
• Troubleshoot cloud, network, and application issues.
• Collaborate with IT security to reduce risks and ensure secure cloud deployments.
• Coordinate security assessments with third-party cloud vendors.
• Investigate incidents and conduct root-cause analyses for high-severity issues.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation pipelines.
• Automate on-prem infrastructure delivery in VMware, Windows, Linux, and SAN/NAS.

Skills

Azure Cloud

AWS Cloud

Scripting (Perl/Python/Shell)

VMware

Windows

Linux

DevOps

Security

Cloud architecture

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or similar technical discipline

Tools

VMware

Job description

Salary Range: $125,000.00 To $150,000.00 Annually

Implement, maintain, manage, troubleshoot, and optimize functional and secure On-premise and Azure cloud environments. Cloud engineer will be responsible for supporting all on-premise, hybrid, Azure, and AWS infrastructures. This is a hands-on operational position requiring technical knowledge and expertise within cloud services and virtualization.

Major Duties:

• Provide subject matter expertise for Azure cloud services, including but not limited to AWS, and virtualization technology.
• Performs IT Operations system administration tasks including installing operating system software, patches, and upgrades.
• Directly responsible for infrastructure, automation and working closely with the engineering team to roll out infrastructure in agile processes and fosters DevOps culture.
• Analyze systems performance to identify potential opportunities for improvement in virtualized environments, hardware infrastructure, backup, archive systems, data storage environment, and cloud environment systems and services.
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve instance, software, network, and other cloud issues.
• Work along-side IT security analysts and other IT staff to correctly setup and maintain cloud applications free of risks and vulnerabilities.
• Work with third-party cloud vendors to obtain security assessments through software monitoring tools to reduce risk and vulnerabilities to the infrastructure.
• Identify incidents for review and participates in related Root Cause Analyses for Critical and High Incidents.
• Working knowledge of application code delivery pipelines and integrations into infrastructure automation mechanisms/pipelines.
• Extensive experience automating delivery of on-premise infrastructure in a traditional VMware, Windows, Linux and SAN/NAS environment.

Professional Qualifications/Skills:

• Must possess a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or similar technical discipline and 7+ years experience in system administration in a large enterprise environment.
• Must have an Active Top-Secret Security Clearance.
• Must have 5+ years system administration experience in Microsoft Azure cloud.
• Excellent understanding of system and network architecture in the cloud and able to manage multiple resources in support of EA cloud efforts.
• Demonstrate significant experience working with AWS cloud infrastructure and services, AWS networking, IAM roles, and scripting in Perl/Python/Shell.
• In-depth understanding and knowledge of various cloud service models to include IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and supporting deployment models, including Private, Public, and Hybrid cloud.
• Must possess hands-on technology knowledge and recognized expertise in public and hybrid-cloud tools and technologies covering automated provisioning and configuration management.
• Must have Professional Cloud Certificate for Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification or a minimum Azure Administration Associate certification.