What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Cloud Engineer (Hybrid) position at DP Professionals Inc?
Job Details
DPP is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer for an opportunity in Lansing, Michigan.
Work arrangement:
Click the apply button or contact our recruiter Mason at to learn more about this position (#25-00019).
Work arrangement:
- Hybrid: 2 days/week (Tuesday and Wednesday) onsite from day 1; 3 days remote
- W2 position; 12 months with possible extension
- Candidates must be located in Michigan
- The Senior Cloud Engineer will wear multiple hats, assisting State of Michigan architects to comprehend, generate solutions, POC the solution, generate recommendations, and then implement the decision.
- The Senior Cloud Engineer will be involved in the design, implementation, and management of technology-based business solutions based on Cloud Services to improve the clients delivery approach.
- The Senior Cloud Engineer will assist with the build out of the Microsoft Azure cloud environment and help support the SOM multi-cloud hosting solution.
- The engineer will draw on solid knowledge of the company s cloud architecture and platform when designing and developing dynamic cloud solutions.
- Provide strategic and architectural support representing Design Services and the state of Michigan Cloud Strategy as a Subject Matter Expert.
- Identify and prioritize critical business functions in collaboration with organizational stakeholders.
- Build and maintain relationships across organizational teams.
- Consult with vendor product specialists/sales, independent research organizations, on-site support engineers and fellow architects and administrators on best-fit technologies to ensure compliance to department policies & standards and technology roadmap.
- Coordinate with Enterprise Architecture team for technology validation or suggestions for alternative solutions. If necessary, initiate Solution Assessments, Infrastructure Service.
- Requests, and any applicable required documentation to implement new technology.
- Advocate the use of emerging cyber security best practices, technologies, developing standards and procedures, promoting the usage of automated tools, developing strategies, and aligning practices with enterprise strategic initiatives.
- Lead the development of technical artifacts including Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), Detailed Technical Design, Security Architecture Plan, Services Description Document, etc.
- Produce architectural framework documents (i.e., white papers, guidance documents, best practices, technical reports, etc.).
- Project contributor representing architecture and participates in project plan development.
- Leverage broad-based understanding of technology areas and end-to-end knowledge of current installations to craft architectural solutions or standards that can be applied across the enterprise.
- Define and build hypothesis around steady state behavior.
- Run experiments around real world events to define potential impact or estimate frequency.
- Build automation into systems to drive both orchestration and analysis.
- Provide support and subject matter expertise with respect to adherence to best practice security framework controls and other industry-based regulatory compliance requirements (e.g., NIST 800-37, 800-53, 800-171, 800-204, 800-207, CIS, PCI, IRS-Pub 1075, CJIS, and related).
- Assist with cloud infrastructure design and develop detailed architecture models for the client to host test, development, and production environments.
- Communicate complex technical concepts to individuals of various technical ability.
- Design and develop cloud cost management solutions
- Provide performance analysis & troubleshooting
- Design and test large-scale workload and data migrations
- Provide direct support to technical and non-technical entities to define requirements and deliver solutions to meet organizational needs including new environment deployment, upgrades, performance tuning, testing and disaster recovery
- Integrate cloud services with on-premises technologies from Microsoft, Dell, EMC, HP, Nutanix, Cohesity, Pure Storage, VMware, Cisco, and Rubrick.
- Design and deliver secure cloud solutions on Azure.
- Strong understanding of Linux OS.
- Chaos engineering experience
- Strong understanding of virtual networks and general network management functions.
- Solid knowledge of concepts of designing and developing dynamic cloud solutions.
- Solid knowledge of concepts and moving parts involved in continuous integration and delivery.
- Expert guidance to development teams regarding infrastructure.
- Interpret and provide solutions on complex technologies/architectures.
- Cloud Formation / automation / Ansible / PowerShell / DSC / Comparable Linux scripting.
- Experience equivalent to site reliability engineering, DevOps, and/or DevSecOps
- Senior Cloud Engineer (3-5 years)
- Solid knowledge of concepts of designing and developing dynamic Cloud solutions and moving parts involved in continuous integration and delivery (3-5 years)
- Guidance to development teams regarding infrastructure (3-5 years)
- Cloud architecting for cloud infrastructure (3-5 years)
- Experience with servers, infrastructure, platform sizing, infrastructure cost reduction (3-5 years)
- Create, maintain, and troubleshooting skills for cloud infrastructure (highly desirable)
- Cloud security experience (highly desirable)
- Chaos engineering experience (highly desirable)
- Azure - MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure
Click the apply button or contact our recruiter Mason at to learn more about this position (#25-00019).
DPP offers a range of compensation and benefits packages to our employees and their eligible dependents. Call today to learn more about working with DPP.
Authorized US Worker - s and those authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time. EOE/AA/V/D
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