Cloud Onboarding Engineer – Audit

About the role

Cloud Onboarding Engineer (Audit Skill Level: Senior Principal) based in Reston, VA, responsible for integrating commercial cloud environments with agency‑specific enterprise services and security‑monitoring architectures.

Responsibilities

• Integrating commercial cloud environments with agency‑specific enterprise services and security‑monitoring architectures.
• Designing, deploying, securing, and operating OCI solutions.
• Integrating OCI audit, logging, monitoring, and security telemetry with enterprise SIEM and monitoring platforms.
• Configuring audit and telemetry sources across cloud, network, platform, operating system, database, and application layers.
• Designing secure log‑collection and forwarding architectures using APIs, agents, syslog, event streaming, object storage, message queues, or comparable mechanisms.
• Validating log completeness, timeliness, integrity, retention, access restrictions, parsing, and normalization for enterprise monitoring.
• Troubleshooting SIEM integration issues involving connectivity, ingestion, certificates, proxies, firewalls, field mapping, alerting, and dashboards; remediating monitoring gaps and alert noise.
• Applying working knowledge of OCI IAM, Audit, Logging, Cloud Guard, network security, secrets/key management, Zero Trust, RMF, ICD 503, and NGA A&A processes.
• Producing documentation and collaborating on architecture diagrams, integration designs, test plans, runbooks, dashboards, and stakeholder coordination.

Requirements

8+ years of relevant experience in the areas described above.

Skills

• Associate‑ or Professional‑level OCI certification in Architect, Security, Networking, or Cloud Operations.
• Experience with enterprise audit collection and SIEM platforms such as Cribl and Elastic.
• Experience supporting authorization packages, control validation, and remediation tracking.
• Experience with Terraform, OCI Resource Manager, or comparable automated cloud configuration.