Cloud Engineer

Description

Help support our nation's Veterans by joining our high-performance, financial technology team. 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.

This is a 100% Remote role.

Key Responsibilities :

• Assist in provisioning and maintaining cloud infrastructure
• Collaborate with other Engineers, Developers, DBAs, System Administrators and Product teams when designing new or improving existing cloud solutions
• Implement industry cloud best practices for security, performance, cost, & resiliency in all aspects of design & implementation
• Optimize the existing cloud migration process by introducing more automation into existing workflows with the end goal of speeding up on-premises 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
• Support the IS team in maintaining the Terraform Enterprise server & performing version upgrades
• Create knowledge-base articles for new tools and processes you implement

Qualifications

Required Experience :

• Knowledge of Azure ecosystems at scale
• Experience building and maintaining Azure infrastructure through the use of Terraform (IaC) templates
• Proficiency in using Ansible for configuration management and automation, including writing and maintaining playbooks, roles
• 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
• Scripting 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 (4 years of additional relevant experience may substitute for education)
• Two (2) 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
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust

Nice to Have :

• Azure / Aws associate level or higher certifications
• Container orchestration experience - Kubernetes, OpenShift
• Software development experience in an enterprise setting
• Excellent writing skills
• Excellent oral communication and presentation skills

Target salary range : $75,001 - $100,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

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.