Senior Cloud Engineer (Microsoft Azure) - TS/SCI

About the role

Pursue a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure including compute (VMs, scale sets), storage, virtual networking, and platform services in commercial and/or Government environments
• Design and maintain landing zones, subscription/management group structure, and governance via CSP Policy, RBAC, and other security tools
• Help design and implement dynamic deployment methods based on customer needs, system telemetry, and other factors
• Plan and execute workload migrations from on-premises environments to the cloud, including assessment, right-sizing, cutover, and validation
• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools; automate operational tasks
• Implement backup, disaster recovery, and continuity/resilience solutions using CSP-specific tools and on-premises tooling
• Harden cloud systems in accordance with DoD STIGs, CIS benchmarks, and DISA cloud computing SRG requirements; support RMF assessment and authorization activities with required artifacts and evidence in support of Authority to Test
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for all cloud resources; ensure audit logging meets NIST SP 800-53 (AU family) requirements
• Manage cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, and performance tuning across the hybrid environment
• Develop and maintain architecture documentation, runbooks, and standard operating procedures; mentor junior engineers

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline; additional years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
• 8+ years of IT infrastructure experience, including 4+ years of hands-on cloud engineering
• Deep expertise in IaaS and core platform services: virtual machines, virtual networks, storage, security, identity, policy, and RBAC
• Experience designing and operating hybrid environments, including hybrid identity and connectivity
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code and automation
• Certified cloud solutions architect

Desired Skills

• Experience with classified cloud regions
• Experience applying DISA Cloud Computing SRG, FedRAMP, and DoD Impact Level (IL4/IL5/IL6/IL7) requirements
• Experience supporting RMF authorization packages (eMASS/XACTA)
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (AKS, Docker) and CI/CD pipelines (DevOps, GitLab)
• Experience with cloud security automation
• Experience working in SCIF or air gapped environments and with disconnected/limited-connectivity cloud patterns
• CISSP or CCSP certification

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Paid time off
• 401(k)
• Life insurance
• Flexible work schedules
• Holidays

Pay

$112,200.00 - $196,400.00

Schedule

Full-time