Azure Cloud Engineer

$100,000 - $130,000/Yr

Janus Research Group - Austin, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Austin, TX

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

This position is contingent upon contract award. Candidates must have an active Secret clearance and verify before applying that you meet the minimum requirements of the position. As an Azure Cloud Engineer you will help the Army provide cloud and technical engineering to solve challenges using state-of-the-art cloud solutions. You will work on exciting projects, growing your skills, and work with other dedicated people who are solving mission and organizational needs.

Responsibilities

• Comfortable in a client-facing situation to help create innovative business solutions based on your Azure Cloud networking and administration experience.
• Participate in the design and implementation of secure operational solutions and services across the clients business and IT support areas.
• Support migration and deployment of applications to Army Azure Cloud environment.
• Experience with DevOps and building CI/CD pipelines to support application and infrastructure deployments.
• Implementation and operations of operational capabilities and tooling (Azure native first) required for ongoing operations in the areas of Monitoring, Alerting, Security Controls, Backups/Restore, Disaster Recovery.
• Develop and maintain software solutions/scripts to support automation of cloud configuration and administration.
• Implement cloud infrastructure solution offerings based on public cloud, private cloud, hybrid client environments, and multi-cloud environments.
• Support security audits, accreditation, and certification processes for cloud-based system architectures.
• Build, maintain and monitor comprehensive alerting and monitoring tools to maintain awareness of, and expedite troubleshooting of infrastructure related issues in Azure environments.
• Provide advisement to other team members and customers on best practices for the implementation of Cloud components, tools, dashboards, and automation.
• Serve as point of escalation for challenging and complex issue resolution.
• Defining and ensuring team members follow a rigorous server patching process.

Requirements

• Active Secret Security Clearance - possible upgrade to TS/SCI
• MSSA Training or equivalent in the Server and Cloud Administration Learning Path
• Knowledge of production readiness and operation capabilities using tools like Azure Monitor, Azure Sentinel, Azure Automation, Azure Backup, Azure Security Center, etc.
• Experience with IaaS and PaaS services such as VMs, Azure Service Environment ASE, Azure Kubernetes Service AKS, Spring Cloud, Azure Virtual Desktop, etc.
• Well versed in general infrastructure technology and understand public and private cloud concepts such as SaaS, PaaS, DaaS, and IaaS.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as ARM and Terraform.
• Experience with the Cloud, Windows/SQL Server, PowerShell scripting, and virtualization.
• Experience developing, deploying, configuring, and managing cloud-based systems supporting enterprise web-based applications.
• Ability to manage Azure subscriptions and resources, implement and manage storage, deploy and manage virtual machines, PaaS services, configure and manage virtual networks, and manage identities.
• Experience with DevOps and implementing CI/CD pipelines.

Nice-to-haves

• Obtain or utilize certifications as part of continuous professional growth, especially Microsoft infrastructure and Azure related certifications.
• Security+ or equivalent certification or ability to quickly obtain.
• Experience with Terraform.
• PowerShell scripting for task automation; Infrastructure as Code.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health and welfare plans
• Financial products
• Referral bonus program
• Various employee awards
• Career growth through training and development