Cloud Engineer

Agil3 Technology Solutions (A3T) is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer to provide cloud engineering, administration, security, monitoring, optimization, and sustainment support for the U.S. Government IT environment.

The Cloud Engineer will support the customer’s Microsoft Azure IL2 cloud environment, Microsoft 365 services, and integration between cloud and on-premises enterprise infrastructure. The position will be responsible for maintaining reliable, secure, and highly available cloud services while supporting identity, networking, virtual machines, storage, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, policy compliance, and cybersecurity requirements.

• Engineer, configure, administer, maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot a Microsoft Azure cloud environment.
• Design and maintain secure, reliable, scalable, and highly available cloud services.
• Administer and support Microsoft Entra  associated cloud identity and access-management capabilities.
• Support integration between Entra , Microsoft 365, Azure resources, and on-premises infrastructure.
• Configure, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot Azure Virtual Networks (VNets) and associated cloud networking services.
• Configure and manage Network Security Groups (NSGs) and other cloud security controls.
• Support Express Route, VPN, and hybrid network connectivity between Azure and on-premises resources.
• Deploy, configure, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot Azure virtual machines and associated computing resources.
• Configure and manage Azure storage resources.
• Monitor cloud infrastructure using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and related Azure monitoring capabilities.
• Develop alerts, dashboards, queries, and monitoring solutions to identify availability, capacity, security, and performance issues.
• Implement and maintain Azure Policy and other governance controls to help ensure cloud resources comply with approved technical and security configurations.
• Apply applicable DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) and DoD security requirements to supported cloud resources.
• Coordinate with Cybersecurity personnel to identify, track, and remediate vulnerabilities and configuration deficiencies.
• Implement and maintain cloud backup and recovery capabilities.
• Support Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery or equivalent approved technologies for continuity and disaster recovery.
• Develop, test, document, and maintain cloud disaster-recovery and service-restoration procedures.
• Use Azure Advisor and other approved tools to identify opportunities to improve reliability, security, performance, operational efficiency, and resource utilization.
• Monitor cloud capacity and performance and recommend changes required to maintain mission availability.
• Support cloud resource provisioning, configuration, migration, upgrade, and decommissioning.
• Assist with migration of appropriate workloads and services between on-premises and cloud environments.
• Support Microsoft 365 integration and cloud-dependent enterprise services.
• Troubleshoot complex issues involving cloud resources, identity, networking, storage, virtual machines, applications, and hybrid connectivity.
• Participate in root-cause analysis for cloud service outages and degraded performance.
• Maintain cloud configuration baselines and support formal change- and configuration-management processes.
• Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), technical procedures, configuration documentation, and troubleshooting guides.
• Prepare After Action Reports (AARs) for significant outages, upgrades, migrations, security events, and other major cloud activities.
• Identify End-of-Life/End-of-Support technologies and recommend modernization or replacement strategies.
• Provide Tier III cloud…