Senior Azure Cloud Engineer

SAIC - Montgomery, AL

Full-time - Senior

Montgomery, AL

10,001+ employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior Azure Cloud Engineer will be part of the USAF Cloud One contract team, responsible for the architecture design, automation, management, support, and oversight of the Cloud One Azure environments. This role supports the Cloud One common services platform under the Air Force Lifecycle Management Center, facilitating the USAF and USA's efforts to migrate applications to a cloud environment and optimize IT operations.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain DISA ACAS and Trend Micro platforms for security and compliance monitoring.
• Design, sustain, and maintain Azure 3-tier hub and spoke environments and topologies.
• Proactively identify and resolve operational, tooling, and process inefficiencies.
• Maintain regular contact with customers during support and projects.
• Provide technical assistance and training to users.
• Perform routine operations including troubleshooting and resolving Tier 3 service desk tickets, performance monitoring, server monitoring, and log monitoring.
• Deploy software packages to the various Cloud One zones, including supporting regression and other testing for the Cloud One Common Services.
• Address security findings and vulnerabilities by developing, testing, and deploying configuration changes.
• Provide integration support to developers.
• Perform activities for patch releases including configuration changes, required documentation, and approvals.
• Develop code in Bash, Terraform, Terragrunt, Azure CLI, and PowerShell for infrastructure automation and orchestration.
• Develop and test configurations to address performance issues and to reduce operational costs.
• Develop and update Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to provision and support Cloud One Infrastructure.
• Create and update documentation related to the maintenance and support of the Cloud Common Services.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen with a Secret clearance.
• Security + or higher certification.
• Bachelor's degree with nine (9) or more years of experience; Masters and seven (7) years of experience. Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• In-depth understanding of and experience with automated deployments of various compute and storage systems to Azure.
• Knowledge of DISA ACAS and host-based IPS/IDS/malware detection platforms such as Trend Micro.
• Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Terragrunt.
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps and Gitlab.
• Experience with ITIL frameworks, Agile methodologies, or other modern software development practices.
• Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and container technologies.
• Strong proficiency in both Debian-based and RPM-based Linux distributions.
• Experienced in building solutions that include Azure security best practices.

Nice-to-haves

• Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate and/or Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert certifications.
• Experience supporting USAF or DoD software development projects.
• Experience working in a large enterprise environment with multiple teams.
• Experience with Active Directory, Data Factory, Cosmos DB, Azure Functions, Azure Policy, Federation Services (ADFS).
• Familiarity with JFrog Artifactory for artifact management.
• SIPR facility access and/or previous SIPR experience.
• Previous work using IaC-driven, code-first development and deployment models.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401k
• Paid holidays
• Flexible scheduling
• Professional development
• Tuition reimbursement