Cloud Project Engineer Admin

Seeking a Cloud Project Engineer (CPE) Infrastructure Administrator to assist our customer in implementing essential Enterprise Information Technology (EIT) services within a highly secure Impact Level 6 (IL6) environment. This role will support the United States Air Force's transition from traditional network operations and on-premises Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet) to a secure, enterprise-based IL6 Cloud environment for classified information transfer.

Responsibilities:

• Design, deployment and maintenance support of a IL6 environment for the EITaaS Stakeholders in accordance with DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (SRG) within a US Government multi-region enterprise platform for the Dept. of the Air Force. 
• Working independently to complete tasks as assigned and work with multiple application teams to integrate systems and solutions, triage issues, and prioritize activities.
• Utilizing good verbal and written skills to communicate effectively to include answering questions, proactively communicating, and troubleshooting issues within the core infrastructure and application services.
• Establish requirements, priorities, schedules, and objectives to support the capabilities and direction of the overall solution. This includes participation in development, design, review, deploy, maintain and monitoring of the infrastructure services. You will ensure product success and will follow all established processes and standards.
• Managing your assigned cloud workloads in the day-to-day operations. You will be responsible for performing various tasks such as planning, designing, managing, supporting, and maintaining Azure cloud computing-related activities.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor high-performance cloud engineering teams.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Active Secret clearance
• 15 Years of relevant experience (Bachelor’s degree in applicable field may be substituted for 5 years of experience).
• 5 years’ experience working with Azure cloud services
• Experience deploying and managing cloud resources and infrastructure components within an IL6 environment.
• Ownership: Experience working with minimal supervision, are a self-starter can manage your individual tasks and have strong communication skills for partnering and communicating across internal teams to maximize efficiency and success of assigned tasks.
• Compliance: Experience with best practices for the Azure cloud environments for US Government and DoD including DoD Cloud Computing SRG and Regulatory Compliance such as and NIST 800-53 Rev 5. and NIST 800-171 Rev. 3
• Governance: Strong Experience with implementing Azure Policy, RBAC, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and Infrastructure as Code
• Security: Hands-on experience designing and maintaining secure solutions in Azure including Identity and Access Management (IAM), Conditional Access Policies, Key Vault, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel., and end to end encryption.
• Networking: Strong experience with design and maintenance of Expressroutes, VNets, VPN, firewalls, NSGs, route tables, private endpoints, load balancers, Private DNS zones, and Network Watcher.
• Compute and Storage: Hands-on experience designing and maintaining Azure compute and storage services. Including dedicated hosts, virtual machines, images, storage accounts, and managed disks
• Performance Optimization: Monitor and optimize cloud infrastructure for cost-effectiveness, performance, and scalability. Identify and address performance bottlenecks and resource utilization issues.
• Automation: Develop and maintain automation scripts and templates to streamline provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes.
• Monitoring and Logging: Design and maintain Azure Monitor/Log Analytics to enable monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions to track the health and performance of cloud resources. Respond to incidents and troubleshoot issues promptly.
• Containers: Experience with container solutions available in Azure.
• Analytics: Knowledge of Azure Machine Learning and AI services.
• Zero Trust: Knowledge of the design and implementation of Zero Trust within Azure.
• OS management: Familiarity with Windows and RHEL OS management including patching/update management and STIGs.
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Application teams, developers, DevOps engineers, and system administrators, to support application development and deployment.
• Documentation: Strong skills in documentation of cloud architectures, configurations, and operational processes and procedures, clearly being able to identify key aspects in your own words and writing such that others who may not be technical can still understand what is being conveyed.  Skills with documenting diagrams with Visio are also preferred.
• CompTIA Security or higher equivalent
• Preferred: Azure Solutions Architect Expert Certification

Pay: $135,000.00 - $165,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Security clearance:

• Secret (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $135,000 - $165,000