Azure Cloud Engineer

Peraton is seeking a Azure Cloud Engineer to join our team of qualified diverse individuals. This position is located in Herndon VA. The qualified applicant will become part of Peratons Department of State (DOS) Consular Systems Modernization (CSM) Program for the Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA). This initiative is intended to modernize and consolidate the operational environment under a common technology framework to better support the services provided to CAs customers.

As part of the modernization program the Azure Cloud Engineer will provide support to the ongoing implementation of the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline that supports the program. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience designing deploying and managing secure scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure in Microsoft Azure. If challenge growth and the ability to have a positive impact on your customer and fellow team members is something that interests you this job is worth your consideration.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Design and implement Azure-based infrastructure solutions to support application modernization and migration efforts.
• Manage technical requirements while deciding on technical solutions.
• Experience in setting up landing zones on Azure cloud.
• Experience in activities around automated deployment of their applications into AKS.
• Experience in managing automation playbooks and documentation related to AKS.
• Experience in pod autoscaling designs/strategies CI-CD pipelines for building enterprise grade application build and deployment automation.
• Experience in efficiently managing image streams and build artifacts.
• Develop deploy and manage Azure PaaS and SaaS solutions ensuring they meet the highest standards of reliability security and performance.
• Utilize Azure DevOps practices to automate and streamline the software development lifecycle including continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD).
• Deploy and manage containerized applications using Kubernetes ensuring high availability scalability and efficient resource utilization.
• Identify analyze and resolve complex technical issues ensuring minimal downtime and optimal performance of services.

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Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree and at least (eight) 8 years of recent relevant work experience.
• Solid understanding of Cloud Networking Identity Management Security Compliance (V-Nets RBAC Private Endpoints IAM and Secrets Management.
• Superior experience designing implementing and delivering infrastructure with containers and Kubernetes AKS preferred.
• Experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform ARM template.
• Ability to comprehend the impacts of adapting different architectures and design and be able to present to stakeholders.
• Develop deploy and manage Azure PaaS and SaaS solutions ensuring they meet the highest standards of reliability security and performance.
• Utilize Azure DevOps practices to automate and streamline the software development lifecycle including continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD).
• Identify analyze and resolve complex technical issues ensuring minimal downtime and optimal performance of services.
• Must be able to obtain or have an Active Secret (or higher) clearance. Interim clearances acceptable.
• Must be a US Citizen.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in a Federal IT related industry.
• Experience with enterprise cloud infrastructure platforms AWS Azure (preferred).
• Experience with advanced automation pipelines (GitLab) and artifact management.
• Azure Security certification(s).
• Implement and manage Azure Arc to extend Azure management and services to any infrastructure ensuring seamless operation across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Grafana Prometheus.

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the worlds leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider we deliver trusted highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land sea space air and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day our employees do the cant be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit to learn how were keeping people around the world safe and secure.