DPP is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer for an opportunity in Lansing, Michigan.
Work arrangement:
Hybrid: 2 days/week (Tuesday and Wednesday) onsite from day 1; 3 days remote
W2 position; 12 months with possible extension
Candidates must be located in Michigan
Position description:
The Senior Cloud Engineer will wear multiple hats, assisting State of Michigan architects to comprehend, generate solutions, POC the solution, generate recommendations, and then implement the decision.
The Senior Cloud Engineer will be involved in the design, implementation, and management of technology-based business solutions based on Cloud Services to improve the clients' delivery approach.
The Senior Cloud Engineer will assist with the build out of the Microsoft Azure cloud environment and help support the SOM multi-cloud hosting solution.
The engineer will draw on solid knowledge of the company's cloud architecture and platform when designing and developing dynamic cloud solutions.
Responsibilities and core tasks:
Provide strategic and architectural support representing Design Services and the state of Michigan Cloud Strategy as a Subject Matter Expert.
Identify and prioritize critical business functions in collaboration with organizational stakeholders.
Build and maintain relationships across organizational teams.
Consult with vendor product specialists/sales, independent research organizations, on-site support engineers and fellow architects and administrators on best-fit technologies to ensure compliance to department policies & standards and technology roadmap.
Coordinate with Enterprise Architecture team for technology validation or suggestions for alternative solutions. If necessary, initiate Solution Assessments, Infrastructure Service.
Requests, and any applicable required documentation to implement new technology.
Advocate the use of emerging cyber security best practices, technologies, developing standards and procedures, promoting the usage of automated tools, developing strategies, and aligning practices with enterprise strategic initiatives.
Lead the development of technical artifacts including Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), Detailed Technical Design, Security Architecture Plan, Services Description Document, etc.
Produce architectural framework documents (i.e., white papers, guidance documents, best practices, technical reports, etc.).
Project contributor representing architecture and participates in project plan development.
Leverage broad-based understanding of technology areas and end-to-end knowledge of current installations to craft architectural solutions or standards that can be applied across the enterprise.
Define and build hypothesis around steady state behavior.
Run experiments around real world events to define potential impact or estimate frequency.
Build automation into systems to drive both orchestration and analysis.
Provide support and subject matter expertise with respect to adherence to best practice security framework controls and other industry-based regulatory compliance requirements (e.g., NIST 800-37, 800-53, 800-171, 800-204, 800-207, CIS, PCI, IRS-Pub 1075, CJIS, and related).
Assist with cloud infrastructure design and develop detailed architecture models for the client to host test, development, and production environments.
Communicate complex technical concepts to individuals of various technical ability.
Design and develop cloud cost management solutions
Provide performance analysis & troubleshooting
Design and test large-scale workload and data migrations
Provide direct support to technical and non-technical entities to define requirements and deliver solutions to meet organizational needs including new environment deployment, upgrades, performance tuning, testing and disaster recovery
Integrate cloud services with on-premises technologies from Microsoft, Dell, EMC, HP, Nutanix, Cohesity, Pure Storage, VMware, Cisco, and Rubrick.
Required knowledge, skills, and abilities:
Design and deliver secure cloud solutions on Azure.
Strong understanding of Linux OS.
Chaos engineering experience
Strong understanding of virtual networks and general network management functions.
Solid knowledge of concepts of designing and developing dynamic cloud solutions.
Solid knowledge of concepts and moving parts involved in continuous integration and delivery.
Expert guidance to development teams regarding infrastructure.
Interpret and provide solutions on complex technologies/architectures.
Cloud Formation / automation / Ansible / PowerShell / DSC / Comparable Linux scripting.
Experience equivalent to site reliability engineering, DevOps, and/or DevSecOps
Senior Cloud Engineer (3-5 years)
Solid knowledge of concepts of designing and developing dynamic Cloud solutions and moving parts involved in continuous integration and delivery (3-5 years)
Guidance to development teams regarding infrastructure (3-5 years)
Cloud architecting for cloud infrastructure (3-5 years)
Experience with servers, infrastructure, platform sizing, infrastructure cost reduction (3-5 years)
Create, maintain, and troubleshooting skills for cloud infrastructure (highly desirable)
Cloud security experience (highly desirable)
Chaos engineering experience (highly desirable)
Certifications (preferred):
Azure - MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure
Interested? Learn more:
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Authorized US Worker - US Citizens and those authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time. EOE/AA/V/D
