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Subject Matter Expert (SME) Azure Cloud Engineer

Job Locations US-MA-Bedford | US-AL-Montgomery | US-SC-Charleston
ID
2024-4225
Business Unit
ITCE
Type
Full-Time
Clearance
Interim Secret Preferred

Overview

i3 is seeking a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Azure Cloud Engineer to join the Cloud One Operations and IL 6 team. This candidate will be part of a team responsible for the architecture design/planning, management, support, and oversight of the Cloud One Azure environments. This position is 100% onsite. Candidates must live near one of our SIPRnet facilties.

Responsibilities

The SME Azure Cloud Engineer will be supporting the Cloud One Common Computing Environment (CCE) program under the Air Force Lifecycle Management Center Office for Network Integration (AFLCMC/HNI). Cloud One is an existing global, interconnected, virtualized, hybrid, and IT infrastructure hosting mission systems, applications, services, and data that will serve the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and U.S. Army (USA). Cloud One incorporates the capabilities of commercial cloud and Managed Service Providers (MSP) residing in Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). Cloud One facilitates the USAF and USA’s efforts to migrate applications to a cloud environment, allowing the closure of data centers to support the Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) and allowing for increased efficiencies across the entire spectrum of the USAF and USA's IT operations.

 

Daily activities may include:

  • Design, sustain, maintain, Azure environments and topologies, all aspects
  • Migrate and deploy various customer workloads to Azure
  • Deploy Hybrid Azure AD environments
  • Implement Azure security and monitoring solutions including automated responses
  • Tools and Automation (scripting – Terraform, ARM templates, TFS/DevOps)
  • Configure and troubleshoot cloud, virtual, and physical hardware and software systems
  • Proactively identify and resolve operational, tooling and process inefficiencies
  • Project and design documentation
  • Process and support documentation
  • Update Knowledge base and Standard Operating Procedures
  • Respond to customer requests promptly
  • Maintain regular contact with customers during support and projects
  • Provide technical assistance and training to users

Qualifications

Required:

  • Bachelor’s degree and seven (7) years or more experience; Additional years of experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
  • In-depth understanding of, and experience with, deployments of various systems to Azure
  • Knowledge of Networking, VPNs, IaaS, PaaS, SQL, storage, Azure AD, etc.
  • Ability to talk about all aspects and features of Azure
  • 3 or more years of experience and advanced vendor certification with in-depth knowledge of at least one cloud product
  • Experience/Knowledge of:
    • Infrastructure as code
    • Code driven development
    • Supporting USAF or USA software development projects
    • Agile, Scrum, SAFe or other modern software development methods/practices
    • Automation resourcing
  • US citizenship required
  • Security + or higher certification

Desired:

  • Interim Secret clearance preferred to start; Ability to obtain a Secret clearance required to maintain employment.
  • An AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification
  • SAFe DevOps certification
  • Experience supporting software migration efforts
  • Experience in an MSP or other IT company highly desirable

About i3

Headquartered in Huntsville, AL, i3 is a national leader in providing innovative technical and engineering solutions to a broad customer base across the U.S. DoD. Specializing in missile and aviation engineering and logistic services, electronic warfare and electromagnetic affects analysis, UAS system integration and flight operations, full lifecycle C5ISR engineering services, engineering analysis, cybersecurity and IT/IA innovative solutions and virtual training, simulation & serious game development and implementation.

  • We were founded in 2007 with the intent to do business differently.
  • Our focus is to leave our team members and customers better than we found them.
  • Our ultimate goal is to strengthen our Nation and our warfighter.

Perks and Benefits at i3:

  • 100% team member owned
  • Outstanding insurance coverage
  • 401(k) match
  • Health and wellness incentives
  • Tuition and certification reimbursement
  • Generous PTO
  • Fun culture with company activities
  • Countless opportunities to give back to the community through our charitable organization, i3 Cares

We work hard. We compete hard. We play hard. Apply now to join us!

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