Cloud Engineer

Raye IT is looking for an innovative and experienced Cloud Engineer to support a federal client within the Washington, D.C. area.

Responsibilities

• Create and manage storage accounts across different Resource Groups.
• Managing Azure Entra ID (Active Directory) operations.
• Implementing Role Based Access Control (RBAC) in the Azure tenant.
• Creating Azure virtual machines based on the business requirements, manage the backups and install applications on the VM’s.
• Working and configuring Azure Log Analytics Workspace, managing logs, creating Azure Dashboards.
• Document all the processes and workflows, their dependencies, gap analysis and future plans for applications.
• Interact with the end users to provide Azure cloud support.
• Maintain and migrate the applications to Azure cloud.
• Create Azure resources based on client business process and requirements.
• Create and administer the databases in Azure cloud.
• Administer the Azure SQL Server.
• Optimizing the Azure resources for cost effectiveness.
• Provision and manage Azure Infrastructure resources required for the project using PowerShell.
• Implement Azure DevOps for code migrations and manage CI / CD pipelines.
• Migrate the workflows from on-prem and Azure cloud across different Azure tenant.
• Create API’s for specific Azure resources e.g. log analytics, ARM templates.
• Work with ETL operations using Azure Data Factory across different platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, software engineering, computer science, or related field.
• 8+ years of Cloud engineering experience.
• 5 years of Enterprise Data Management (EDW) experience in administering and provisioning Database servers, data backup and recovery procedures, auditing etc using On-prem or Cloud products. (Highly preferred)
• Able to use Terraform at mid to senior level to build cloud infrastructure.
• 3+ years of experience using Azure cloud services in provisioning and administrating services such as Azure Data factory, Azure Synapse, Azure Analysis services and Azure Active directory.
• Continuous integration, test automation and / or DevSecOps on iterative development projects.
• Assist with leading and overseeing a total system perspective including technical understanding of relationships, dependencies and requirements of cloud, on premise, and hybrid services, infrastructure and security domains.

Preferred: Azure administration Certification.

Security Clearance Requirement: Public Trust.

Place of Performance: Washington, DC area (hybrid)

Schedule: Monday - Friday

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off