Cloud Engineer

Company: ALTA IT Services
Location: Gainesville
Posted on: May 1, 2025

Job Description:

ALTA IT has a Direct Hire position open for a Cloud Engineer (Azure).

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Clearance: Top Secret and willing to sit for CI Poly
Onsite - Quantico, VA
The Cloud Engineer shall plan, lead, and, if necessary, conduct site surveys and use the information acquired to produce a complete delineation of products, services, support equipment, and computer and electronic equipment installations required for the site to fully support mission operations. The engineer shall plan, direct, and, if necessary, conduct regular, special, and integrated system test programs. The engineer shall prepare and conduct special reports and presentations that contain actionable information that is pertinent to individual site operations. The engineer shall conduct integrated equipment system testing. The engineer shall plan, prepare, and conduct on-the-job training for FBI and junior contractor personnel, as required. The engineer shall coordinate with other field engineers to the benefit of the FBI and specifically, ONTU. The engineer shall support the unit with other duties as assigned within the scope of work.
Requirements: Clearance: Top Secret and willing to sit for CI Poly
Engineer will be primarily responsible for managing/maintaining the Microsoft Azure Cloud environment, which is on the LOW side.
The project will consider someone with AWS Cloud experience if they are open/willing to learn Azure.
The team is currently going through an ATO for Federated Cloud Services on low side. Engineer will assist in STIGs and assessing security posture.
Must be able to work with Security Engineers.
Must be able to work with developers to troubleshoot issues as it relates to the Azure environment to include Docker and Kubernetes. Great problem-solving skills required.

Specific tasks/responsibilities we are looking for are with the following (these are in respect to Azure but we will even take the comparable experience with these in AWS: Azure Automation and ACR Tasks
Managing Azure Containers
Troubleshooting issues with AKS
Support for those utilizing Azure DBs
Troubleshooting VM deployments
Understanding runbooks and troubleshooting issues there
Standing up networks in Azure
Azure Hardening - STIGs, experience with going through an ATO for a cloud environment.

We are looking for someone with at least 5 years in these areas when strictly referring to their cloud experience.
Desired Skills: Azure Stack Edge
GitLab CI/CD experience is preferred.
Microsoft (current Version) Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)
Microsoft (current Version) Failover Clustering
Microsoft's System Center monitoring components and methods
Mass storage arrays and servers
Dell OpenManage essentials
Windows Server Update Services
Containers
SQL Server

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