Senior Cloud Engineer

Job Description

Huntington Ingalls Industries: Mission Technologies Division is actively searching for a  Cloud Engineer to join our team at WPAFB, in Dayton, Ohio, to help our customer AFRL/IZX National with ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of their existing cloud environment. The ideal candidate will have a passion for technology, a strong understanding of cloud software development principles, and the ability to make a big impact on our team.

This highly skilled Cloud Engineer will need to have extensive experience in designing, deploying, and managing cloud-based solutions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure platforms. Proficient in cloud architecture, automation, and orchestration, with in-depth knowledge of services such as EC2, S3, RDS, GCP Compute Engine, BigQuery, Azure VM, SQL Database, and Functions. Expert in implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, optimizing cloud performance, ensuring security compliance, and managing multi-cloud environments. Adept at supporting and troubleshooting current cloud computing environments, leveraging cloud-native tools and services to enhance scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency. Strong collaborator, effectively working with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative and robust cloud solutions.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, as well as opportunities for career advancement. If you are a driven and passionate software engineer looking to make a big impact, we want to hear from you!

This role can allow for hybrid work. 

Essential Job Responsibilities

Builds, designs, implements, and refines cloud architectures.
Provides prescriptive guidance across the network and security.
Leads early scoping definitions and identifies critical dependencies.
Identifies and mitigates technology risks and develops architecture to support processes.
Collaborates with functional business units to drive business solutions and direction.
Develops and documents framework for integration and implementation of cloud systems.
Understands and determines sizing, capacity planning and requirements for infrastructure, network, and security in the cloud offering.

Minimum Qualifications

9 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 7 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; 4 years relevant experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 13 years relevant experience.

A minimum of Secret-level clearance OR ability to obtain a clearance.

Appropriate DoD Certification is required or able to obtain within 6 months.

Preferred Requirements

Data Platform and Big Data: Azure SQL Databases, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Delta Lake, Synapse Azure Machine Learning and Cosmos DB
Azure PaaS Services: Service Bus, Event Hub, Event Grid, Azure Functions
Logging and Monitoring: Log Analytics and Azure Monitor. Creating workbooks and alerts. Monitor Azure cloud-based systems for availability, performance, reliability, security, etc.
Presentation: Azure Portal Dashboards
Identity and Authentication: Azure Active Directory, OAuth, OpenID, SAML2
REST APIs: Experience with Azure API Manager.
Security: Familiarity with HIPAA. Understanding of securing services through managed principals, service principals, networking, and firewalls. Understanding of Identity Management and implementation through the Azure services.
DevOps: Familiarity with Terraform and Terragrunt.
High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Understanding service availability for Azure services and implementing disaster recovery.
Experience in one or more automation languages (PowerShell, Python, C#)
Bonus experience to have: Azure Cognitive Services