Cloud Engineer

Sienna Systems (“Sienna”) is looking for an experienced Cloud Engineer to work with our government client to help drive the cloud technology, implementations, and direction. You will work directly with the client management supporting engineering efforts, system designs, and implementations to guide the organization. We are looking for a candidate with strong hands-on technical background and excellent communication skills. Strong background in Azure with migration experience.

Job Description:

The scope of work includes contractor support for the design, migration, and development of production systems for the existing NOAA environments. This includes support for engineering/administration, the operational environment, cloud migration, security, and configuration management. The team is lean and agile, so must be self-motivated. The primary objectives include:

Technical Duties and Functional Responsibilities:

The ideal candidate should be able to perform the following:

• Deep experience managing Azure (e.g., cloud migrations)

• Active Directory experience, both via Azure & on prem

• Experience with AWS

• Experience managing architecture, design, and applications in a cloud environment

• Experience migrating complex applications and systems to cloud environments

• Work with client management to drive adoption and utilization

• Work with client teams to support technical adoption and utilization

• Demonstrated ability to design and support a variety of cloud platforms and services among various vendors

• Demonstrated ability to integrate solutions with on-premise solutions as required in compliance with government standards, policies and configuration requirements

• Proven ability to manage Azure and AWS cloud environments

• Demonstrated understanding of and ability to apply all needed security controls to IMO managed cloud environment, including FedRAMP requirements and processes

• Demonstrated ability to work independently

• Scripting experience a plus (e.g., Ansible, AWS-CLI, PowerShell)

Job Requirements, Skills, and Certs:

• Active clearance with federal government agency (public trust or above) is REQUIRED

• Bachelor’s degree, IT-related preferred, or equivalent of five (5) years of experience

• 4 years of hands-on experience architecting and administering cloud projects

• 3 years of hands-on experience migrating and assisting others to migrate from on premises systems to cloud environments

• Cloud certification(s) – Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate or similar

• Must have good communications skills

Additional Information about Position and Company

• Salary: up to $170,000 based on years of experience and knowledge/expertise

• This is a hybrid role with at least one day per week on site in Silver Springs, MD.

• Company benefits:

  • Medical/dental/vision insurance

  • 3 weeks PTO

  • 11 paid Federal Holidays

  • 401(k) plan with matching funds

  • Long- and short-term Disability coverage

  • Company sponsored Life Insurance coverage

  • Hiring Referral Bonus

  • Reimbursement for approved technical training/exams

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