ETS Engineer IV / Principal - Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

$112,200 - $199,900/Yr

Navy Federal Credit Union - Vienna, VA

Full-time - Senior

Vienna, VA

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

This role will function as a principal engineer for Cloud Infrastructure as Code automation, product engineering delivery, and cost optimization. The primary responsibilities include researching, evaluating, designing, implementing, and maintaining system and product solutions. The position requires deep and broad engineering experience with Microsoft Azure technologies, specifically focusing on Azure Infrastructure as Code modules, Azure cost optimization, Azure DevOps Repos and Pipelines, Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Candidates filling this role will be responsible for the design, development, and support of Infrastructure as Code deployments of Azure resources via Azure DevOps. A successful candidate should have a history of engineering effective solutions in technically complex environments and supporting such solutions. The role also involves anticipating and adjusting for potential impacts, applying engineering principles to enhance systems, documenting new system components or modifications, ensuring the security and integrity of system and product solutions, and managing full life-cycle projects. Additionally, the candidate will lead, guide, and mentor less experienced staff, perform engineering tasks in support of business needs, and provide technical leadership in architecture discipline and IT solutions development. The position may require participation in an on-call rotation for emergency technical support and planned maintenance activities.

Responsibilities

• Anticipate and adjust for potential impact
• Apply engineering principles to the design and enhancement of systems
• Document new system components, or modifications to existing components
• Ensure the security and integrity of system and product solutions
• Full life-cycle project management
• Lead, guide and mentor less experienced staff
• Perform engineering tasks/assignments in support of business needs
• Perform research, procurement, deployment and configuration of systems
• Present clear, organized & concise information to audiences to enable business decisions
• Provide input and make budgetary recommendations
• Provide technical leadership in architecture discipline & development of IT solutions
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Advanced expertise in Infrastructure as Code principles (IaC), and engineering IaC deployments via Azure DevOps including modules, Pipelines, and Repos
• Advanced experience in scripting with Windows PowerShell
• Advanced experience in Azure Cost optimization including Reservations, right-sizing, auto-shutdowns, cost analysis, tagging, etc. as well as Azure Advisor recommendations
• Advanced expertise in engineering Azure security platforms including Azure Policy, Azure Defender, and optionally Sentinel and M365 Defender
• Advanced expertise in engineering Azure Platform as a Service (Azure PaaS) including but not limited to: Storage Accounts, Azure Recovery Services Vaults, Functions, Logic Apps, Web Apps, Azure SQL, Azure Active Directory, Application Insights, Virtual Networks, Application Gateway, Load Balancers
• Advanced expertise in engineering Azure Infrastructure as a Service (Azure IaaS) including but not limited to: Subscriptions, Resource Groups, Virtual Machines, Disks, Managed Disks, Availability Zones, Availability Sets, Azure Monitor, etc.
• Intermediate experience engineering Windows Server operating systems 2016/2019/later and RedHat Linux, including services such as monitoring, build, patch, upgrade, configuration management, storage management, etc.
• Intermediate Expertise in engineering Azure Automation
• Working knowledge of Active Directory, Group Policy, LDAP, Kerberos, DNS, TCP/IP, WMI, SNMP
• Infrastructure as Code delivery
• Cost optimization - identify and enhance opportunities for cost optimization across the cloud tenant
• Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Design, implementation, documentation, and support of infrastructure, configuration management, and patching
• Compute services - Design, implementation, documentation, and support of infrastructure, virtual machines and serverless compute services, platform, storage, backup, configuration management, and patching
• Working knowledge of MS SQL Server usage and administration
• Verbal and written communication skills
• Organizational, planning and time management skills
• Research, analytical, and problem solving skills
• Engineering discipline
• Skill exercising initiative and using good judgment to make sound decisions
• Skill guiding and training less experienced staff
• Knowledge of and adherence to change control standards and procedures, problem resolution, and troubleshooting techniques
• Manage complex full life-cycle IT projects or teams to include cost/resource/time estimation

Nice-to-haves

• Intermediate experience with Azure Software as a Service solutions (Azure SaaS)
• Working knowledge of Tanzu Application Service (PaaS)

Benefits

• Highly competitive pay
• Generous benefits and perks
• Hybrid workplace options
• Employee referral program eligibility