Job Summary
The role involves designing, implementing, and operating secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for enterprise applications and services. This position is integral to the hybrid infrastructure strategy, ensuring reliable integration of cloud and on-premises environments while maintaining high availability and performance. The engineer will drive 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.
- 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.
- Partner with operations teams to monitor production services, resolve incidents, and improve reliability across cloud platforms.
- Security, Identity, and Compliance
- Implement and maintain cloud security configurations aligned with security policies and zero-trust principles.
- Engineer and support identity and access controls using Microsoft Entra Identity, RBAC, conditional access, and least-privilege models.
- Enforce governance controls and policy compliance to support organizational and regulatory requirements, audit readiness, and risk reduction.
- Drive patching, vulnerability remediation, and secure configuration baselines across cloud-hosted infrastructure.
- Automation, IaC, and CI/CD Enablement
- Develop and maintain automation using PowerShell, Bicep, ARM templates, and Terraform to provision and manage infrastructure.
- Integrate infrastructure workflows with CI/CD pipelines to standardize deployments, reduce manual effort, and improve release quality.
- Implement reusable IaC modules, scripting standards, and version-controlled operational artifacts.
- Advance automated operating models to increase consistency, security, and scalability.
- Migration, Modernization, and Technical Leadership
- Lead migration of workloads from legacy/on-premises platforms to modern Azure cloud and hybrid architectures with minimal disruption.
- Optimize cloud resource utilization, cost, and service performance based on operational and mission priorities.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers and cross-functional infrastructure teams.
- Create and maintain architecture documentation, SOPs, and implementation guidance to support sustainable operations.
Required Qualifications
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Technical Skills:
- Cloud networking, storage, app services, virtualization, and containerization.
- DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipeline implementation, and automation practices.
- Infrastructure-as-Code at production scale: PowerShell, Bicep, ARM templates, and Terraform.
- Cloud governance, policy enforcement, operational compliance, and security in Azure.
- Zero-trust security principles, networking design patterns, and secure cloud configuration practices.
- Microsoft Entra Identity services.
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.
This position is remote, and a Public Trust, or ability/willingness to get the clearance is required.
Benefits
PEAK's benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Dependent Care Savings Account (DCA), and 401K plan. PEAK believes that taking care of our team is essential for success and we are proud to provide benefits that enhance both your well-being and your future. Additionally, our associates may be eligible for Paid Sick Leave as required by Federal, State, or local laws.
Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO)
PEAK Technical Staffing is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. PEAK does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. All employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit, and business need. We encourage all individuals to apply.
Americans Disabilities Act (ADA)
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