Cloud Engineer
Vaihingen, Germany
Time Type : Full time
Minimum Clearance Required to Start : TS / SCI
Employee Type : Regular-Long Term Assignment
What's your day like?
Cadence Coalition is seeking a highly qualified Cloud Engineer Subject Matter Expert (SME) to support USEUCOM in a pivotal role that promises excitement and impact. As a Cloud Engineer, you will be critical in architecting, deploying, and operating multiple cloud environments tailored for USAFRICOM, primarily utilizing Microsoft Azure. This position provides an exceptional opportunity to leverage your expertise in cloud technologies while contributing to vital operations that support national security initiatives. Your insights will enhance system performance and reliability, making a meaningful difference in the effectiveness of cloud solutions within a dynamic operational landscape.
Responsibilities :
- Provide design, engineering, and operational support to multiple cloud based environments.
- Analyze services to determine viability to migrate to the cloud and develop roadmaps for execution
- Migrate, maintain, and support Cloud computing environments and continuously create improvements to enhance the durability, performance, and maintainability.
- Architect solutions to meet mission and IT requirements, ensuring technical viability of new solutions and successful deployments, while orchestrating key resources and key Infrastructure technologies, and leveraging Application Development and DevOps technologies as appropriate.
- Perform as a subject matter expert (SME) for Cloud, Cloud enterprise system administration for new IT or software concepts, Active Directory, Storage Area Network appliance, Directory Service replication, Authentication services, Role Based Access Control (RBAC), Group Policy troubleshooting and Public Key Infrastructure; server virtualization technologies; server monitoring tools; as well as other related classes of on-prem and Cloud technology such as storage and clustering, data protection, and application platforms.
- Develop and support of Cloud identities, synchronization of identities to multiple Cloud providers, and administration and management of Cloud identities and licenses.
- Analyze Cloud security requirements to determine if proposed and / or designed security solution(s) meet DoD Cloud security requirements considering information impact levels (ILs) and Cloud computing service models to include SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS.
Qualifications :
Currently hold a TS / SCI security clearanceBA / BS + 5 years recent specialized or AA / AS +7 years recent specialized or a major cert + 9 years recent specialized or 11 years of recent specialized experienceIAT-III Level Certification (CISSP, CASP+ CISM, etc)Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate or Developer AssociateExtensive experience supporting Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365Experience in systems infrastructure design, support, and administrationExperience working with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 in a hybrid environment.Azure AD, storage, and computing including Application Proxy (NDES), Storage Account, Virtual Machines, Virtual Desktop, Backup, Automation, and FunctionsAzure identity management including SSO (SAML), OAuth, MFA, RBAC, PIM, conditional access, monitoring / alerting, device registration, identity protection, and hybrid identity management / AD connect.Azure networking including ExpressRoute, VNet, Virtual WAN, VPN, NSG, Load Balancer, BGP, routing, and firewall concepts (Palo Alto, etc.)Experience collaborating with technical teams of diverse IT related skill sets.Desired Qualifications :
Ansible and Infrastructure as Code programming skillsAdvanced automated script design, coding, debugging, and maintenance skills (using bash, python, etc.)Experience in CI / CD toolsets (e.g. Terraform, Jenkins, GitLab, etc)Experience with Containerization (Docker) and Container Orchestration (Kubernetes)Azure Solutions Architect Expert Certification