SAIC - Montgomery, AL
posted about 1 month ago
SAIC is seeking a Senior Azure Cloud Computing Engineer for the Cloud One program under the Air Force Lifecycle Management Center Office for Network Integration (AFLCMC/HNI). The Cloud One Common Computing Environment is an existing global, interconnected, virtualized, hybrid, and IT infrastructure hosting mission systems, applications, services, and data that will serve the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and U.S. Army (USA). Cloud One incorporates the capabilities of commercial cloud and Managed Service Providers (MSP) residing in Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). Cloud One facilitates the USAF and USA's efforts to migrate applications to a cloud environment, allowing the closure of data centers to support the Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) and allowing for increased efficiencies across the entire spectrum of the USAF and USA's IT operations. This candidate will be part of a team responsible for the management, operations, support, and oversight of the Cloud One Azure environments. This position is a Hybrid position where the majority of your work will be on site in a SIPRnet facility. Our current locations are Hanscom AFB, Gunter AFB, Andrews AFB, Charleston AFB. Other locations may be considered if candidate has current access to utilize. Job Responsibilities include designing, planning, and integrating cloud computing and virtualization systems. The candidate will identify, evaluate, and implement tools and services for the most efficient solution to enhance capabilities of cloud-based and virtualized services and meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements. They will develop and conduct testing of cloud and virtualization systems, maintaining subject matter expertise in Azure industry standards and in related cloud computing and virtualization technologies such as cloud service provider architecture, design, and configuration; cloud deployment models including public, community, private, and hybrid; cloud service delivery models including infrastructure-, platform-, and software-as-a-service; automation; hypervisors; containers; virtual compute, storage, and networks; virtual infrastructure management; self-provisioning; and scaling. The candidate will advise and assist the team lead to forecast, develop, and prioritize roadmap items to meet current and anticipated operational requirements. They will work within the Agile Framework to meet operational and scheduling objectives, research and evaluate technical capabilities and new security tools and products against operational requirements, and introduce them to the enterprise in alignment with C1 strategy and roadmap to assure availability, offensive and defensive capability design, and troubleshoot and problem-solve technical and non-technical issues. At the Leadership level, this is senior technical staff dedicated to transforming customer environments into a more secure operating environment in a holistic manner. The candidate will identify and develop technical solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity, creativity, and considerable experience, within the bounds of administrative and operational constraints and with minimal oversight. They will work independently or as part of a team in a virtualized Azure cloud environment via both graphical (Azure Portal) and command-line interfaces (Powershell, CloudShell, Red Hat Linux, Windows Server Core).