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Introduction
As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will use cutting-edge cloud and data technologies to streamline services to our clients. Join our team of Cloud professionals and accomplish what others only dream of.
What You’ll Be Doing:
Perform the Enclave Administrator (EA) role on behalf of the Customer, including deployment and maintenance of Mission Enclave infrastructure and all application-related responsibilities on Mission Enclave environment.
System health monitoring include Azure Solution System Health, Program Application availability, and Capacity Management.
Operational System Management (trouble tickets) – input, re-route, field, and escalate as appropriate.
Conduct appropriate troubleshooting and remediation activities to include coordinating with System Owners, Product Team, and Migration Team for issues and coordinating with the appropriate team and/or personnel.
Participate in planning sessions, and technical presentations, with customer project leads and staff.
Analyze technical requirements and develop effective solutions.
Complete regular maintenance on all systems / applications. This includes regular patching and vulnerability remediation and addressing end of service/end of life replacements.
Complete approved configuration updates/changes and escalate where required if high-level architectural updates are needed.
Sets up and delegates application-related responsibilities to Customer Mission Applications Administrator (MAA) role, which we provide to our Customer and their Mission Partners so they can administer applications within their enclave.
Work closely with Customer as shared technical lead. Enable development, analysis, and deployment to be delivered on schedule and in line with Customer requirements.
Location and Travel Details:
This opportunity is client facing in the Lorton, VA area and requires full onsite presence.
Security Clearance and Citizenship Requirements:
Required for This Opportunity:
Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent industry work experience)
8+ years of experience in systems engineering
As a condition of employment, the candidate must acquire a CompTIA Security+ (or higher level security certification) within 30 days of hire
Azure Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevSecOps experience (Bicep, ARM, PowerShell, CLI)
Experience within C4 networks / operating environments and SAP networks / operating environments preferred.
Experience in one, or more, of the following: Cloud technologies, data and AI, security, business application design and implementation.
Ability to self-manage for maintenance of workloads and ensuring appropriate support of all systems/applications/workloads existing within the enclave (operational boundary)
Nice to Have Skills:
Certifications on Microsoft products, including Azure and Windows
Experience supporting enterprise systems and applications such as VDI, database systems, web servers, etc.
Familiarity with networking (IP addressing, firewall rules, routing)
Experience implementing secure and scalable hybrid cloud architectures
Experience with agile development tooling and practices.
Direct customer relationship management, supporting prioritizations and workload management.
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