Azure Cloud Engineer

• Company: Atlas Tech
• Location: North Charleston, SC
• Duration: direct hire / perm
• Clearance: Top Secret

Required Skills & Experience

- Secret Security Clearance at the T5 investigation level
- Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in a cloud engineering role
- IAT Level II certification or equivalent information assurance qualification
- 3+ years of technical experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP
- Experience in a DevOps role or similar overseeing complex IT infrastructure
- Experience with Ansible automation platform
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM Templates)
- Ability to design, deploy, and manage multi-tier cloud applications and services
- Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Working knowledge and experience with Agile frameworks and Scrum
- Understanding of cloud networking, security, and cost optimization principles
- Strong documentation and oral communication skills to clearly communicate with all levels of users, engineers, managers, and organizations

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

- Demonstrated experience with:
- CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Microsoft Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions
- Configuration management and automation platforms (Ansible, Chef, Puppet
- Programming/scripting languages (Bash, Python, HTML, etc.)
- Git, GitLab, GitLab Pipelines, Artifactory, Confluence, and Jira
- Integrated Development Environments (IDE), including Visual Studio Code, for Git management and code revision
- Cloud computing infrastructure (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift)
- Monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack)
- Microservices architecture and serverless computing
- Database administration in cloud environments
- Security best practices and compliance frameworks
- Cost optimization and FinOps practices

Job Description

Insight Global is seeking a Microsoft Azure Cloud Engineer for an effort to provide systems engineering and integration support for a federal software systems program. This is an on-site role based in North Charleston, SC, with flexibility to telework 2 days per week.
Responsibilities include:
- Be responsible for cloud infrastructure, automating and streamlining operations, and building and maintaining tools for deployment
- Develop automated deployment pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code templates
- Build solutions to automate cloud operations tasks including monitoring, scaling, backup, and disaster recovery
- Provide expertise in cloud architecture and modern infrastructure practices
- Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code
- Design and optimize cloud architecture to improve performance, cost-efficiency, security, and scalability
- Provide recommendations for cloud best practices and process improvements
- Contribute to team objectives and support cloud migration initiatives
- Design and implement cloud monitoring and management solutions
- Prepare technical documentation and present architecture proposals to engineering teams
- Deploy and test cloud infrastructure in development environments as part of CI/CD processes
- Research new technologies to support enterprise automation solutions for large federal systems
- Investigate and resolve complex issues that span multiple applications/technologies and require involvement from technical personnel across multiple groups
- Verify documentation is easy to understand for both internal and external teams with varying skillsets and expertise
- Provide feedback on internal processes and recommendations for improvement
- Decompose tasks and provide status updates