Multi-Cloud Engineer - SME Security Clearance

Position: Multi-Cloud Engineer - SME with Security Clearance
Overview The Multi-Cloud Engineer - SME serves as a senior technical authority and hands-on engineer for designing, building, integrating, automating, and sustaining capabilities across multiple cloud providers and on-premises environments. The role establishes technical patterns, resolves complex architecture and integration challenges, develops production-ready solutions, and advises government and program leadership on multi-cloud strategy. Responsibilities
* Serve as the senior technical subject-matter expert and hands-on engineer for multi-cloud capabilities across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and hybrid/on-premises environments.
* Design, build, configure, deploy, test, troubleshoot, and sustain cloud infrastructure, platform services, and integrations in production and non-production environments.
* Develop reference architectures, reusable infrastructure modules, engineering standards, and implementation guidance that enable portability, interoperability, resilience, and consistent security across cloud providers.
* Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Bicep/ARM templates, AWS Cloud Formation, Ansible, or equivalent automation frameworks.
* Build and maintain continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for infrastructure, platform components, and cloud-native applications using approved Dev Sec Ops  tooling.
* Design and implement cross-cloud and hybrid connectivity, including virtual networks/VPCs, subnets, routing, firewalls/security groups, private connectivity, domain name system (DNS), load balancing, network segmentation, and connectivity to on-premises environments.
* Configure and troubleshoot identity, access management (IAM), privileged access, role-based access control (RBAC), identity federation, service identities, secrets management, and integration with enterprise identity providers.
* Deploy, configure, administer, upgrade, secure, and troubleshoot container platforms and Kubernetes environments, including cluster networking, ingress, storage, policy enforcement, workload deployments, and observability.
* Develop and maintain cloud-native application hosting patterns for virtual machines, containers, serverless services, managed databases, object storage, messaging, and API integration services.
* Implement automated configuration management, patching, vulnerability remediation, image hardening, baseline enforcement, and compliance reporting for cloud and hybrid infrastructure.
* Build and tune centralized logging, monitoring, alerting, tracing, dashboards, and service-level indicators across cloud and on-premises environments.
* Conduct root-cause analysis for complex infrastructure, networking, application-platform, identity, performance, and availability incidents; implement corrective and preventive actions.
* Lead hands-on engineering efforts for complex migrations, modernization initiatives, workload refactoring, data migration, and hybrid-cloud transformations.
* Evaluate cloud services and prototype solutions to recommend fit-for-purpose technologies based on mission requirements, performance, cost, security, and operational constraints.
* Analyze cloud performance, availability, capacity, resiliency, and cost; implement optimization measures, autoscaling, backup, disaster-recovery, and recovery-validation solutions.
* Produce and maintain build documentation, runbooks, scripts, configuration baselines, implementation plans, test procedures, architecture diagrams, and operational procedures.
* Perform peer reviews of infrastructure code, cloud configurations, technical designs, implementation artifacts, and operational documentation.
* Mentor cloud engineers through code reviews, technical demonstrations, troubleshooting support, and hands-on training.
* Brief senior government and program leadership on technical risks, tradeoffs, modernization options, implementation status, and recommended courses of action. Qualifications

Required Qualifications
* Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline or equivalent relevant experience.
* 15+ years of progressively responsible infrastructure and cloud engineering experience.
* Expert-level, hands-on experience designing, deploying, configuring, and troubleshooting Azure and AWS services in enterprise environments.
* Demonstrated ability to create, modify, test, and maintain IaC, automation scripts, and deployment pipelines using Terraform, Bicep/ARM, Cloud Formation, Ansible, Power Shell, Python, Bash, or equivalent tools.
* Deep hands-on experience with cloud networking, including Azure Virtual Network, AWS Virtual Private Cloud, routing, VPN/private connectivity, DNS, firewalls, load balancers, network security controls, and hybrid connectivity.
* Deep hands-on experience implementing IAM, federation, RBAC, workload identities, privileged access, secrets management, and cloud security controls in Azure and AWS.
* Demonstrated experience deploying,…