• Senior Cloud Engineer

    SAIC (TX)


    Description

    We are seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer who will be responsible for driving innovation & automation that adheres to cloud architectural best practices within the FSC Azure cloud platform. This includes designing & implementing new cloud platform solutions that accelerate cloud migrations from on-prem to Azure, reduce costs, and improve overall security and resiliency of systems & workloads in Azure.

    Key Responsibilities:

    + Architect, design, & develop cloud-based solutions and provide support as an Azure SME

    + Implement industry cloud best practices for security, performance, cost, & resiliency in all aspects of design & implementation

    + Drive proof-of-concept prototypes that assess the feasibility of solutions and demonstrate to our customer how technology can be leveraged

    + Optimize the existing cloud migration process by introducing more automation into existing workflows with the end goal of improving cloud operations & speeding up on-premise to cloud migrations

    + Promote continual improvement through automation of existing cloud tools & pipelines

    + Improve upon existing cloud monitoring tools & alerting for cloud-hosted systems to ensure cloud systems’ availability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency are optimal

    + Automate deployment pipelines in a scalable, secure and reliable manner

    + Troubleshoot issues with application deployments to Azure

    + Assist in provisioning and maintaining cloud infrastructure

    + Support the IS team in maintaining the Terraform Enterprise server & performing version upgrades

    + Collaborate with other Engineers, Developers, DBAs, System Administrators and Product teams when designing new or improving existing cloud solutions

    + Create knowledge-base articles for new tools and processes you implement

    + Act as technical expert on DevSecOps infrastructure projects pertaining to systems management, design and architecture

    Qualifications

    Required Skills and Experience:

    + **Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance**

    + 10 years of experience as an Engineer or similar role with a Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems engineering, or related technical discipline (8 years of additional relevant experience may substitute for education)

    + Expert-level knowledge of Azure ecosystems at scale

    + Experience building an maintaining Azure infrastructure through the use of Terraform (IaC) templates

    + Prior experience with CI/CD tools such as Github Workflows

    + Experience setting up, maintaining and developing on an ongoing basis continuous build/ integration infrastructure & pipelines

    + Strong scripting experience with Powershell, Python, BASH, etc

    + Three (3) years of experience and proven success in Azure design, support and management within a large-scale organization

    + Experience building and deploying with Linux, UNIX and Windows technologies

    + Prior experience working in development frameworks such as .NET, JAVA, or similar language

    + Understanding of industry standard system architecture and system management concepts and tools

    Nice to Have:

    + Azure associate level or higher certifications

    + Previous full-stack development experience

    + Container orchestration experience - Kubernetes, OpenShift

    + Software development experience in an enterprise setting

    + AWS Experience

    + Excellent writing skills

    + Excellent oral communication and presentation skills

     

    Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

    REQNUMBER: 2511376

    SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability