Azure/AWS Cloud Engineer Sr

Job Description

Description

JOB DESCRIPTION: The Senior AWS/Azure Cloud Engineer is a member of the SAIC Cloud One Operations and Sustainment Dev Sec Team focused on site reliability engineering. This candidate will be part of a team responsible for the architecture design/planning, management, support, and oversight of the Cloud One Azure environments. This is remote work that may be performed from any location within the United States

The Sr. Azure Engineer will be supporting the Cloud One Common Computing Environment (CCE) program under the Air Force Lifecycle Management Center Office for Network Integration (AFLCMC/HNI). Cloud One is an existing global, interconnected, virtualized, hybrid, and IT infrastructure hosting mission systems, applications, services, and data that will serve the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and U.S. Army (USA). Cloud One incorporates the capabilities of commercial cloud and Managed Service Providers (MSP) residing in Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). Cloud One facilitates the USAF and USA’s efforts to migrate applications to a cloud environment, allowing the closure of data centers to support the Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) and allowing for increased efficiencies across the entire spectrum of the USAF and USA's IT operations. The candidate for this position may work anywhere in the United States. There is no requirement to work at a SAIC or customer site to support Cloud One. 

Daily activities may include:

Design AWS/Azure environments and topologies, all aspects

Migrate and deploy various customer workloads to AWS/Azure

Deploy Hybrid AWS/Azure AD environments

AWS/Azure security and monitoring solutions implementation, including automated responses

Tools and Automation (scripting – Terraform, ARM templates)

Configure and troubleshoot cloud, virtual, and physical hardware and software systems

Proactively identify and resolve operational, tooling and process inefficiencies

Project and design documentation

Process and support documentation

Update Knowledge base and Standard Operating Procedures

Respond to customer requests promptly

Maintain regular contact with customers during support and projects

Provide technical assistance and training to users

Qualifications

REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD and 4 years related experience. In lieu of a degree an additional four (4) years of experience is required

This position requires an in-depth understanding of, and experience with, deployments of various systems to AWS/Azure. Networking, VPNs, IaaS, PaaS, SQL, storage, Azure AD, etc. are all part of the work performed in this role. Applicant should be comfortable talking about all aspects and features of AWS/Azure. In addition, this role requires a high level of customer contact and collaboration, design, implementation, and involvement in project planning

Documentation for projects including design, asset inventory, diagrams, and presentation to customers is required. All aspects of the environment and deployment must also be documented for support and future implementations. Learnings and wisdom are documented in KB articles

An AWS/Azure Engineer must have 3 or more years of experience and advanced vendor certification and in-depth knowledge of at least one cloud product

Experience with Agile, Scrum, SAFe or other modern software development methods/practices

Experience supporting USAF or USA software development projects 

DESIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

An AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification

SAFe DevOps certification

Experience supporting software migration efforts

IAT II Certification (or equivalent)

MCSE or MCTS, Azure certifications (AZ 100, AZ 500, and/or other AZ series exams, 346/7 are bonus), Azure Assessments

CISSP (or IAT III equivalent) Certification

Experience in an MSP or other IT company highly desirable

REQUIRED CLEARANCE:

Interim Secret Clearance with ability to obtain an active Secret Clearance with a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI). Note Top Secret meets SSBI requirements.

Overview

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator driving our nation's technology transformation. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in engineering, digital, artificial intelligence, and mission solutions. Using our expertise and understanding of existing and emerging technologies, we integrate the best components from our own portfolio and our partner ecosystem to deliver innovative, effective, and efficient solutions that are critical to achieving our customers' missions.

We are more than 26,500 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a respectful work culture based on diversity, equity, and inclusion that values all contributors. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.1 billion. For more information, visit saic.com.