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Description

SAIC is seeking a Cloud Engineer to join our Innovations & Solutions (IS) team in support of the Department of Veterans Affairs Financial Service Center (FSC) program. The Cloud Engineer is 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:

+ Assist in provisioning and maintaining cloud infrastructure

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

+ Troubleshoot issues with application deployments to Azure

+ 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 speeding up on-premise to cloud migrations

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

+ 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

Qualifications

Required Experience:

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

+ Experience deploying, managing, and monitoring Azure virtual machines (VMs), virtual machine scale sets, and container services like Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Azure Container Apps

+ Knowledge of Azure ecosystems at scale

+ Hands-on experience building and maintaining Azure infrastructure through IaC tools, preferably Terraform.

+ Prior experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions

+ Experience with Powershell, Python, BASH, etc.

Required Qualifications:

+ 5 years of experience as an Engineer or similar role

+ Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems engineering, or related technical discipline (5 years of additional relevant experience may substitute for education)

+ 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

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

Nice to Have:

+ Azure associate level or higher certifications

+ 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: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

REQNUMBER: 2511658

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