Azure Senior Engineer

Koniag Technology Solutions a Koniag Government Services company is seeking an experienced Senior Azure Engineer to join a focused dynamic team supporting Azure Cloud service offerings for a government agency undergoing cloud modernization and migration. The ideal candidate is a motivated team-player with deep technical expertise in Azure services and cloud computing a passion for automation and the ability to communicate complex architectural decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. This position requires an active Secret clearance at minimum with Top Secret offer competitive compensation and an extraordinary benefits package including health dental and vision insurance 401K with company matching flexible spending accounts paid holidays three weeks paid time off and Senior Azure Engineer will serve on a focused small team responsible for supporting and expanding Azure Cloud service offerings used by a federal agency to modernize and migrate systems to the cloud. This is a multi-functional role requiring both hands-on engineering expertise and the ability to collaborate closely with Product Owners Scrum Masters fellow engineers and security engineers to define build and roadmap future cloud service releases. Principal responsibilities will include but are not limited to:Support the design implementation and ongoing management of Azure Cloud service offerings at both FISMA Moderate and FISMA High security closely with the Product Owner Scrum Master engineers and security engineers to define and build initial service offerings as well as the roadmap for future architectural trade-offs and design options clearly so that the Product Owner and executive leadership can make informed strategic in and support a team charged with coordinating and implementing various solutions required to support the Azure Cloud proof of concepts and pilots for various cloud solutions and develop operational plans for supporting all developed documentation and implementation plans for various solutions used to access and leverage and support YAML-based CI/CD pipelines leveraging tools such as GitLab CI GitHub Actions Azure DevOps Jenkins CircleCI or and support Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using tools such as Terraform Pulumi Ansible Salt Chef CloudFormation or and maintain PowerShell scripts utilizing logical constructs such as if/else foreach try/catch and with development and operations teams to develop practical automation solutions and custom modules troubleshoot automation issues and drive projects forward in a timely a culture of collaboration transparency and automation within the engineering constraints and bottlenecks in engineering lifecycles and develop automated solutions to address analyze design propose and support the delivery of cloud solutions aligned with business and technology Change and Configuration Management best practices across the within an Agile development environment supporting Scrum and/or Kanban and Experience:Bachelors degree in Computer Science Business Administration Information Technology or a related field from an accredited college or Certified: Azure Administrator Associate Certificate (AZ-104).Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204).Significant experience in Azure cloud engineering administration or architecture experience working in or supporting a federal government IT Secret Clearance or higher. Required Skills and Competencies:Exceptional communication skills in English both written and oral with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders including executive to set the technical tone and drive an Azure engineering team toward common infrastructure understanding of IaaS and PaaS services offered on Azure and the ability to leverage them together to build complex enterprise-grade building and supporting YAML-based CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab CI GitHub Actions Azure DevOps Jenkins CircleCI or building and supporting Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform Pulumi Ansible Salt Chef CloudFormation or experience with Terraform Open Source in CI/CD-driven knowledge of PowerShell scripting with the ability to build and understand logical scripts utilizing constructs such as if/else foreach try/catch with Cloud-Native and Hybrid cloud to design data system and component architectures and present them in simple language to executive -versed in the DevOps lifecycle and process improvement knowledge of Change and Configuration Management best with Agile methodologies particularly Test-Driven Development (TDD) and for identifying constraints and bottlenecks in engineering lifecycles and automating Skills and Competencies:Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert supporting FISMA Moderate and/or FISMA High cloud with Kanban working in a federal government IT of cloud security best practices and compliance frameworks relevant to federal Equal Employment Opportunity Policy:The company is an equal opportunity employer. The company shall not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race color religion creed ethnicity sex sexual orientation gender or gender identity (except where gender is a bona fide occupational qualification) national origin or ancestry age disability citizenship military/veteran status marital status genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local law. We are committed to equal employment opportunity in all decisions related to employment promotion wages benefits and all other privileges terms and conditions of company is dedicated to seeking all qualified applicants. 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