Sr. Cloud Engineer

at  SAIC

Job ID: 2404018-FLEXWORK-TX
Location: REMOTE WORK, TX, US
Date Posted: 2024-03-15
Category: Information Technology
Subcategory: Cloud Comp Engr
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: No
Minimum Clearance Required: None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust
Potential for Remote Work: No
Description
SAIC is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to join our Innovations & Solutions (IS) team in support of the Department of Veterans Affairs Financial Service Center (FSC) program. The Senior 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.

REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, systems engineering, or related technical discipline; 6 years of additional relevant experience may substitute for education.
• 9+ years of experience as an Engineer or similar role is required; 12+ years of related experience is heavily preferred.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust based on the Department of Veterans Affairs regulations.
• 3+ years of experience and proven success in Azure design, support, and management within a large-scale organization

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Expert-level knowledge of Azure ecosystems at scale
• Experience building an maintaining Azure infrastructure through the use of Terraform (IaC) templates
• Prior experience with CI/CD tools such as Github Workflows
• Experience setting up, maintaining and developing on an ongoing basis continuous build/ integration infrastructure & pipelines
• Strong scripting experience with Powershell, Python, BASH, etc.
• Experience building and deploying with Linux, UNIX and Windows technologies
• Prior experience working in development frameworks such as .NET, JAVA, or similar language
• Understanding of industry standard system architecture and system management concepts and tools

Desired Qualifications:

• Azure associate level or higher certifications
• Previous full-stack development experience
• Container orchestration experience - Kubernetes, OpenShift
• Software development experience in an enterprise setting
• AWS Experience
• Excellent writing skills

Target salary range: $125,001 - $135,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Architect, design, & develop cloud-based solutions and provide support as an Azure SME
• 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
• Improve upon existing cloud monitoring tools & alerting for cloud-hosted systems to ensure cloud systems’ availability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency are optimal
• Automate deployment pipelines in a scalable, secure and reliable manner
• Troubleshoot issues with application deployments to Azure
• Assist in provisioning and maintaining cloud infrastructure
• 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
• Act as technical expert on DevSecOps infrastructure projects pertaining to systems management, design and architecture
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