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Job Description
Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure)
The company is an IBM company, is an industry-leading, award-winning provider of technical solutions for the federal government. They specialize in providing agile software engineering, user experience design, cloud services, and digital strategy services that address government's most pressing missions. Delivering intelligent solutions and rapid results, yielding lower costs and measurable outcomes.
The company is located in the D.C. Metro area, and will remain 100% remote.
What You Will Be Doing:
This position doesn't provide sponsorship.
The company is an IBM company, is an industry-leading, award-winning provider of technical solutions for the federal government. They specialize in providing agile software engineering, user experience design, cloud services, and digital strategy services that address government's most pressing missions. Delivering intelligent solutions and rapid results, yielding lower costs and measurable outcomes.
The company is located in the D.C. Metro area, and will remain 100% remote.
What You Will Be Doing:
- You will join an operations and maintenance program in support of the US Department of Veterans Affairs.
- In this role, you'll work with a team of engineers and non-technical customers to manage Cloud solutions (Azure), provide operational activities based on best practices and tailored to the clients' needs, applications, and infrastructure, and leverage a strong understanding of application, server, network security, and government requirements such as FISMA and FedRAMP.
- The role will also provide the business-level input necessary for the customer to maximize the benefit of the cloud environment. All in all, you should bring a solid architecture background with experience conceptualizing and strategizing Cloud solutions.
- See below for experience and degree requirements.
- Demonstrate professional competence in the principles and practices of Cloud architectures.
- Excellent knowledge of cloud computing technologies and current computing trends, including professional experience architecting and operating solutions built on Azure.
- Experience assessing, planning, designing, and migrating/transforming legacy applications to the Cloud.
- Experience with software development tools, web services, methodologies, and practices like DevOps, DevSecOPs and CI/CD tool chains (i.e. Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub, TerraForm).
- Experience with High-Availability, Fault Tolerance, Scalability, Database Concepts, System and Software.
- Understanding of application, server, and network security and government requirements such as FISMA/FedRAMP.
- Direct experience in an enterprise large-scale hosted computing environment.
- Experience with hybrid Cloud environments.
- Must possess strong organizational skills, strong interpersonal skills, and demonstrated experience working with senior-level stakeholders.
- Ability to convey complex technical concepts to less technical audiences is critical.
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.
- Must be able to work in a matrix organization.
- Must be able to articulate cloud technologies and approaches to all levels of customer and contractor personnel.
- Any one of the Azure certifications - Azure Security Engineer Associate, Azure Developer Associate, Azure Solutions Architect and/or Microsoft Solutions Architect preferred
- Experience with Agile development tools (i.e. JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint).
- Experience with OnPrem to Cloud Microsoft environment migrations and transformations.
- Familiarity with the government Authority to Operate (ATO) processes and associated documentation of the security control assessment preformed on Cloud resources.
This position doesn't provide sponsorship.
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