Cloud Engineer

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

As a Cloud engineer, you'll use your experience to architect, build, and design solutions that integrate public Cloud services. You will incorporate techniques like Infrastructure as Code to ensure repeatable deployment of resources. You'll provide expertise in the use of Cloud reference architecture and solutions to support software development in a Dev Ops environment. You will be working in a dual Microsoft Exchange and Google Workspace environment, experience supporting both is required.

You should have excellent troubleshooting skills, stay current with industry trends, and should be a team player. The work will be on-site at the DOT office in Washington, DC.

• 5 years experience deploying/configuring application workloads within Microsoft Azure Commercial Cloud or AWS Cloud
• Must have 1 - 3 years of related designing, planning and integrating cloud computing systems, possessing basic cloud computing skills and knowledge
• Demonstrated understanding of principles supporting infrastructure components including compute, network, and storage, with 7 years total hands-on experience in technology
• Demonstrated understanding of principals configuring and supporting application workloads within the Azure or AWS Cloud
• Proven Design/Configuration/Integration/Testing/Release/Maintenance/Support of Microsoft O365 Cloud, Exchange, Intune with Apple Business Manager, Azure, Office Suite, Outlook applications, One Drive for Business and Microsoft Security & Compliance

Core responsibilities and duties; highlight day-to-day activities:

• Creating/updating cloud environment configurations to establish/support application workloads, including:
  • Azure Focused:
    Configuration of Subscriptions, Resource Groups, VNETs, Subnets, load balancers, App Services, Azure Batch, Virtual Machines, resource tagging, billing, policy implementation, and security controls
  • AWS Focused:
    Configuration of AWS Accounts, IAM Users and Roles, VPCs, subnets, load balancers, Network routes, Transit Gateway, Control Tower, Systems Manager, Config Manager, stack sets, WAF, Cloud Front, and Route
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• Understanding of shell scripting and executing commands via the command line
• Designing and building out automation platforms utilizing Infrastructure as Code methodologies – preferred skills are Cloud Formation and/or Terraform, scripting capabilities with Power Shell and Python
• Supporting and completing requests for operational support to include communicating level of effort and status to cloud leadership team
• Supporting data calls for resources provisioned within the cloud environment and reporting out status of resources.
• Identifying and communicating opportunities for improving agency security posture within cloud environments
• Collaborating with external development teams to understand cloud workload solution architecture within agency AWS/Azure environment
• Coordinate change and release of Mail and MDM services, functions, patches, and upgrades in production including design, architecture, configuration, staffing, scheduling, impact / risk analysis, approval, communications, testing, implementation, monitoring and operations.
• Ensure timely fulfillment of requested Mail and MDM services for role-based access, permissions, specialized communications, distribution groups, availability, and functionality.
• Assess and report performance, access, licensing, capacity, and recommend solutions.
• Participate in 24/7 rotation of On-Call support.
• Manage and report on Daily Operations driving deliverables, managing expectations, communications, risk management, and reporting to all…