Cloud Engineer needed for a Contract opportunity with SOC’s client to work Remote. Strong preference for candidates located within driving distance to one of these locations:
- Hanscom AFB, MA
- Wright Patterson AFB, OH
- Fort Belvoir, VA
- Joint Base San Antonio, TX
- Chantilly VA
- Reston VA
Contract Length: 1 year, possibility of multi-year extension
*Candidates must have an active Secret or Top Secret clearance to be considered for this role.
Seeking a highly motivated Cloud Engineer (Azure) to help lead Client team in setting up, maintaining, and improving a DevSecOps environment for their customer. Our team collaborates heavily with our customer in order to deliver the best path to transform our customer’s application needs into reality given their unique security requirements.
The Cloud Engineer position will support a research and experimentation effort to evaluate and demonstrate different MLS and Zero Trust (ZT) technologies, tools, and architectures as hosted within an Azure development environment. Additionally, the team will configure an Azure development environment to support application development via a DevSecOps pipeline. The Cloud Engineer will also participate and contribute in customer discussions on new services and products that the pipeline can offer to incoming projects.
Key Duties/Responsibilities:
- Guide and recommend innovative approaches on the configuration of an Azure software development environment in an agile sprint cycle structure
- Analyze existing system architecture and recommend secure design changes to the Cloud One Azure environment.
- Conduct market research on ZT tools and MLS alternatives
- Generate design documents, best practice configurations, and test procedures
- Execute testing on MLS and ZT alternatives IAW the developed test plan and criteria
- Provide subject matter expertise on Azure cloud toolsets and best practices.
- Configure and maintain tools within the development environment.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelors and two (2) years or more experience; Masters and 0 years related experience.
- Active DoD Secret Clearance and ability to obtain TS/SCI
- At least two (2) years of experience in Microsoft Azure environment development and/or engineering
- Experience with automation tools including Ansible and Terraform
- Experience with containerization tools such as Kubernetes
- Able to obtain DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II Certification within six months of hire date
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with other cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, OCI)
- AZ-104 or AZ-400 certification
Employment Prerequisites
The following requirements must be met to be eligible for this position: successful completion of a background investigation and drug urinalysis.
SOC, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability.