Azure Cloud Engineer Job Listing at SAIC in REMOTE WORK, TX (Job ID 2511658)

Description

Description

SAIC is seeking a Cloud Engineer to join our Innovations & Solutions (IS) team in support of the Department of Veterans Affairs Financial Service Center (FSC) program. The Cloud Engineer is responsible for driving innovation & automation that adheres to cloud architectural best practices within the FSC Azure cloud platform. This includes designing & implementing new cloud platform solutions that accelerate cloud migrations from on-prem to Azure, reduce costs, and improve overall security and resiliency of systems & workloads in Azure. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in provisioning and maintaining cloud infrastructure.
• Automate deployment pipelines in a scalable, secure and reliable manner.
• Troubleshoot issues with application deployments to Azure.
• Implement industry cloud best practices for security, performance, cost, & resiliency in all aspects of design & implementation.
• Drive proof-of-concept prototypes that assess the feasibility of solutions and demonstrate to our customer how technology can be leveraged.
• Optimize the existing cloud migration process by introducing more automation into existing workflows with the end goal of speeding up on-premise to cloud migrations.
• Promote continual improvement through automation of existing cloud tools & pipelines.
• Support the IS team in maintaining the Terraform Enterprise server & performing version upgrades.
• Collaborate with other Engineers, Developers, DBAs, System Administrators and Product teams when designing new or improving existing cloud solutions.
• Create knowledge-base articles for new tools and processes you implement.

Qualifications

Required Experience:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance. 
• Experience deploying, managing, and monitoring Azure virtual machines (VMs), virtual machine scale sets, and container services like Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Azure Container Apps.
• Knowledge of Azure ecosystems at scale.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining Azure infrastructure through IaC tools, preferably Terraform.
• Prior experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions.
• Experience with Powershell, Python, BASH, etc.

Required Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience as an Engineer or similar role.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems engineering, or related technical discipline (5 years of additional relevant experience may substitute for education).
• Three (3) years of experience and proven success in Azure design, support and management within a large-scale organization.
• Experience building and deploying with Linux, UNIX and Windows technologies.
• Understanding of industry standard system architecture and system management concepts and tools.

Nice to Have:

• Azure associate level or higher certifications.
• Container orchestration experience - Kubernetes, OpenShift.
• Software development experience in an enterprise setting.
• AWS Experience.
• Excellent writing skills.
• Excellent oral communication and presentation skills.
  
  

Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

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