Cloud Engineer – Subject Matter Expert

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Virginia.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and oversee sophisticated enterprise data, analytics, and pipeline frameworks within secured federal and defense settings.

• Create, configure, and uphold production-grade cloud landing zones, enterprise network architectures, and zero-trust identity frameworks.

• Develop, test, and sustain enterprise ETL/ELT pipelines for synchronization, ingestion, and multi-source transformation processes.

• Automate infrastructure lifecycles utilizing Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.

• Enforce least-privilege governance and manage encryption keys, application connections, API tokens, and cryptographic profiles via Azure Key Vault.

• Design, route, and secure REST APIs and backend microservices using Azure API Management.

• Engineer audit-ready pipelines, metric dashboards, system alerting, and security logging mechanisms.

• Facilitate cloud-native ingestion, enterprise data virtualization, cross-domain connections, and automated landing zones for Army data assets.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 12 years of documented, continuous cloud engineering experience, starting no later than August 2014.

• An active U.S. DoD Secret clearance is mandatory at the time of application.

• Extensive hands-on production engineering experience in Azure Government, cArmy, or highly restricted federal enclaves under DoD IL5/IL6 frameworks.

• Expert-level proficiency in Azure architecture design, including Hub-Spoke models, ExpressRoute, and Secure Cloud Computing Architecture.

• Production experience with Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, and structured Data Lake environments.

• Advanced experience in deployment pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, or similar CI/CD tools.

• Direct experience operating within Azure Government, cArmy, or federal GCC High environments.

• Mastery of DoD/Army Architecture Standards and DoD Impact Level 5 and 6 controls.

• Capability to work remotely during standard Government working hours and engage in daily status, requirements, development, and technical-review sessions.

• Willingness to travel to Fort Lee, Virginia, at least three times a year and report onsite more frequently if directed.

• Familiarity with GCSS-Army, NLAC, or Army G4 logistics modules is preferred.

• Previous exposure to Strategic Enterprise Analytics or similar enterprise military data-lake structures is preferred.

• Functional understanding of defense analytics pipelines, military logistics platforms, or supply-chain telemetry datasets is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive Employee Health Insurance options, including dental coverage.

• 100% company-paid vision insurance plan.

• 401K plan featuring a generous company match and no vesting period.

• 100% company-paid life insurance.

• 100% company-paid long and short-term disability insurance.

• Training allowance provided.

• Paid Time Off (PTO).