Description

SAIC is seeking a Senior Azure Cloud Computing Engineer for the Cloud One program under the Air Force Lifecycle Management Center Office for Network Integration (AFLCMC/HNI). The Cloud One Common Computing Environment is an existing global, interconnected, virtualized, hybrid, and IT infrastructure hosting mission systems, applications, services, and data that will serve the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and U.S. Army (USA). Cloud One incorporates the capabilities of commercial cloud and Managed Service Providers (MSP) residing in Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). Cloud One facilitates the USAF and USA’s efforts to migrate applications to a cloud environment, allowing the closure of data centers to support the Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) and allowing for increased efficiencies across the entire spectrum of the USAF and USA's IT operations. This candidate will be part of a team responsible for the management, operations, support, and oversight of the Cloud One Azure environments.

This position is a Hybrid position where the majority of your work will be on site in a SIPRnet facility. Our current locations are Hanscom AFB, Gunter AFB, Andrews AFB, Charleston AFB. Other locations may be considered if candidate has current access to utilize.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design, plan, and integrate cloud computing and virtualization systems.

• Identify, evaluate, and implement tools and servicesfor the most efficient solution to enhance capabilities of cloud-based and virtualized services and meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements.

• Develop and conduct testingof cloud and virtualization systems.

• Maintain subject matter expertise in Azure industry standards and in related cloud computing and virtualization technologiessuch as cloud service provider architecture, design, and configuration; cloud deployment models including public, community, private, and hybrid; cloud service delivery models including infrastructure-, platform-, and software-as-a-service; automation; hypervisors; containers; virtual compute, storage, and networks; virtual infrastructure management; self-provisioning; and scaling.

• Advise and assist the team leadto forecast, develop, and prioritize roadmap items to meet current and anticipated operational requirements.

• Work within the Agile Frameworkto meet operational and scheduling objectives.

• Research and evaluate technical capabilities and new security tools and productsagainst operational requirements and introduces them to the enterprise in alignment with C1 strategy, and roadmap to assure the availability, the offensive and defensive capability design and troubleshoot and problem solve technical and non-technical issues. At the Leadership level this is senior technical staff dedicated to transforming customer environments into a more secure operating environment in a holistic manner.

• Identify and develop technical solutions to complex problemswhich require the regular use of ingenuity, creativity, and considerable experience, within the bounds of administrative and operational constraints and with minimal oversight.

• Work independently or as part of a team in a virtualized Azure cloud environment via both graphical (Azure Portal) and command-line interfaces (Powershell, CloudShell, Red Hat Linux, Windows Server Core).

• Work with and assist other team members in utilizing automated configuration management tools, including software such as Powershell, Ansible, Terraform, Kusto Query Language, and Desired State Configuration.

• Employ security, automation, and orchestration to enable continuous integration and continuous delivery of applications and infrastructure at scale.

• Troubleshoot complex and nuanced infrastructure problems and work with a team to resolve large-scale production issues.

• Assist fellow engineers to resolve blockers and complete assigned tasks within prescribed scheduling and architectural constraints.

• Minimize risk of reliability related failure outcomes as pertaining to durability, availability, performance, and correctness.

• Proactively identify and resolve operational, tooling, and process inefficiencies.

• Identify and implement creative solutions to resolve the most complex customer incident tickets promptly and maintain regular contact with customers for the duration of the incident.

Qualifications

Required Clearance:

• Interim Secret clearance required to start; Ability to obtain a Secret clearance (or higher) required to maintain employment.

• US Citizenship required.

Required Certifications:

• Security+ Certification.

Required Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's and five (5) years experience.

• Masters and three (3) years of experience.

• Additional years of experience accepted in lieu of degree.

Required Qualifications:

• Expert understanding of, and experience with, deployments of various systems and services to Azure cloud environments.

• Expert knowledge of Azure services, including Azure Active Directory, Azure Managed Service Identity, Azure Automation, Azure Functions, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Desired State Config (DSC), Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Policy, and Azure App Service.

• Expertise in working projects that use CI/CD and streamlined DevOps workflows such as Azure Pipelines/TFS, GitLab.

• Expertise with scripting using Windows PowerShell, Shell scripts, Python, Bash, or other similar languages.

• Experience working on integrated teams requiring high levels of customer contact and collaboration, design, implementation, and involvement in project planning.

• Experience with DevSecOps, Agile, Scrum, SAFe or other modern software development methods/practices.

• Experience of design and implementation of IaaS and PaaS solutions executed and repeated in DevOps solution framework and with DevOps tools using Azure DevOps and Terraform.

Desired Qualifications:

• An Azure/AWS certification.

• SAFe DevOps certification.

• Experience supporting software migration efforts.

• Experience in an MSP or other IT company highly desirable.

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site. REQNUMBER: 2411835

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