Azure DevOps Cloud Engineer at Saic Camp Springs, MD

Azure DevOps Cloud Engineer job at Saic. Camp Springs, MD.

Description

SAIC is seeking a Azure DevOps Cloud Engineer with an active Interim Secret clearanceto join the SAIC Cloud One Operations and IL 6 team. 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 a hybrid remote position requiring the person to work on site up to 80%of the work week depending on project needs.

The 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.

Daily activities may include

• Design, sustain, maintain, 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, Bicep, Powershell, ARM templates, Azure DevOps, Git
• 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 five (5) years or more experience; Masters and three (3) years or more experience; PhD and 0 years related experience.
• Additional years of experience may be accepted in lieu of degree

REQUIRED CLEARANCE AND CERTIFICATIONS

• Interim Secret clearance required to start; Ability to obtain a Secret clearance required to maintain employment.
• Security + or other IAT II Certification (or equivalent) required
• US citizenship required

REQUIRED SKILLS

• In-depth understanding of, and experience with deployments of various systems with Azure Networking, VPNs, IaaS, PaaS, SQL, storage, Entra ID, etc
• Comfortable talking about all aspects features and services of Azure
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate, design, implement, and plan projects
• Experience with documentation for projects including design, asset inventory, diagrams, and presentation to customers. Familiarity with KB articles preferred.
• Experience/Knowledge of:
• Infrastructure as code
• Code driven development
• supporting USAF or USA software development projects
• ITIL, Agile, Scrum, SAFe or other modern software development methods/practices
• Automation resourcing

DESIRED SKILLS

• An AZURE Solutions Architect Professional certification
• SAFe DevOps certification
• Experience supporting software migration efforts
• MCSE or MCTS, Azure certifications (AZ 100, AZ 400, and/or other AZ series exams are bonus), Azure Assessments
• CISSP (or IAT III equivalent) Certification
• Experience in an MSP or other IT company 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr