• Remote
  • $73–$76 Per Hour
  • Contractor
2 days ago

Job Description

JOB TITLE: CLOUD ENGINEER
JOB LOCATION: REMOTE
WAGE RANGE*: 73.00-76.00 PER HOUR
JOB NUMBER: SAIJP00039138

 

JOB DESCRIPTION

 

The Cloud Engineer-Senior supports the SEC ISS contract by designing, implementing, and operating secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for enterprise applications and services. This role is central to Client's hybrid infrastructure strategy,
ensuring reliable integration of cloud and on-premises environments while maintaining high availability and performance. The engineer drives automation-first operations using infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices to improve consistency, speed, and operational resilience. The position enforces zero-trust and compliance requirements,
supports migration and modernization initiatives, and provides technical leadership across cloud engineering activities.

 

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
Cloud Infrastructure Engineering and Operations
- Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure solutions in Microsoft Azure and AWS, with Azure as the primary platform and AWS support focused on integration with project-team-managed workloads and potential future expansion.
- Build and maintain cloud networking, storage, compute, app services, virtualization, and containerized environments.
- Ensure scalability, resiliency, and high availability through proactive performance tuning, capacity planning, and operational optimization. 

 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Experience supporting federal agency IT environments with FISMA/FedRAMP-driven security and compliance requirements.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift and cloud-native container platform operations.
- Experience integrating observability and ITSM platforms to improve incident response and service reliability.
- Experience implementing immutable infrastructure and policy-as-code controls in enterprise environments.
- Experience with cloud cost management and FinOps practices to optimize spend and performance.
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate

 

WORK ENVIRONMENT / OTHER


Operational Support: May require participation in on-call or surge support activities depending on operational needs.

Location: Telework
Travel: As required per contract direction. 


Equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities 

 

* While an hourly range is posted for this position, an eventual hourly rate is determined by a comprehensive salary analysis which considers multiple factors including but not limited to: job-related knowledge, skills and qualifications, education and experience as compared to others in the organization doing substantially similar work, if applicable, and market and business considerations. Benefits offered include medical, dental and vision benefits; dependent care flexible spending account; 401(k) plan; voluntary life/short term disability/whole life/term life/accident and critical illness coverage; employee assistance program; sick leave in accordance with regulation. Benefits may be subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions. Benefits offered are in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws and subject to change at TCM's discretion.

Numbers & Facts

Location (
Remote
)
Job TypeContractor
Salary$73–$76 Per Hour

Qualifications

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:
Citizenship/Work Authorization: Must meet contract requirements.
Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain SEC Public Trust (or higher if required).
Education: Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.


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Experience:
- Minimum 8 years of experience in IT infrastructure roles, including 5+ years focused on Azure cloud engineering.
- Demonstrated experience designing and managing secure, highly available cloud environments for enterprise services.
- Proven experience leading Azure cloud migration and modernization efforts in regulated environments.
- Experience designing, configuring, and administering Azure cloud enterprise implementations using compute cloud resources such as Virtual Machines, Scale sets, Azure containers or Kubernetes, and Cloud Services.
- Strong experience with Azure tools such as Azure DevOps, Repos, Pipelines, and Boards.
- Experienced in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS) and Software as a service (SaaS) Cloud Hosting Architecture/Design patterns to meet scalability, capacity, availability, performance, storage, cost, and application/platform requirements

 

Technical Skills:
- Cloud networking, storage, app services, virtualization, and containerization
- DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipeline implementation and automation practices

Skills

  • Azure
  • KUBERNETES
  • Public Trust

Skills

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
  • Automationunmatched
  • Capacity and Performance Managementunmatched
  • Cloud Computingunmatched
  • Cloud Storageunmatched
  • Computer Servicesunmatched
  • Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
  • Continuous Integrationunmatched
  • Cost Controlunmatched
  • Enterprise Applicationsunmatched
  • FISMA - Federal Information Security Management Actunmatched
  • Federal Governmentunmatched
  • Federal Laws and Regulationsunmatched
  • High Availabilityunmatched
  • IT Service Management (ITSM)unmatched
  • Incident Responseunmatched
  • Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
  • Maintain Complianceunmatched
  • Microsoft Infrastructureunmatched
  • Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
  • Network Administration/Managementunmatched
  • On Callunmatched
  • Operational Supportunmatched
  • Operations Planningunmatched
  • Performance Tuning/Optimizationunmatched
  • Regulationsunmatched
  • Regulatory Complianceunmatched
  • Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)unmatched
  • Software Engineeringunmatched
  • State Laws and Regulationsunmatched
  • Technical Leadershipunmatched
  • Virtualizationunmatched
  • Willing to Travelunmatched

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