Cloud Engineer

The State of Michigan is looking for : Cloud Engineer

Interviews : 1st round interviews will be virtual via MS Teams. Cameras must be on. There is a potential 2nd round interviews may be held inperson. Candidates must be available for an inperson interview.

Duration : 1 year with extension possible

Position location : Lansing MI. Resource will be working a hybrid schedule. NO REMOTE ONLY OPTION. Will need to be onsite from day 1 two days a week (Tuesdays and Wednesdays are required onsite days)

Local candidates only. Candidates must be located in the State of Michigan at time of submission.

Clear and concise communication skills are required.

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Senior Cloud Engineer Infrastructure Job Description

Engagement :

This role will wear multiple hats assisting State of Michigan Architects to comprehend objectives generate solutions POC the solution generate recommendations then implement the decisions.

As a Senior Cloud Engineer we are looking for a candidate who will be involved in the design implementation and management of technology based business solutions based on Cloud Services to improve our clients delivery approach.

This position will assist with the build out of the Microsoft Azure cloud environment and help support the SOM multicloud hosting solution. This professional draws on solid knowledge of the companys cloud architecture and platform when designing and developing dynamic cloud solutions.

v Contractor (staff augmentation) Resource

v Sourced through MiSAM Program ( Knowledge Services )

v Standard 1 year engagement and 1984 hours. (Purchase Orders based on the fiscal year 10 / 1 9 / 30)

v Possible extension beyond the 1year standard agreement

v Full time 40 hours per week Monday Friday

v Must be able to agree to a Hybrid work schedule with 3 days remotes and 2 days inoffice at the SOM DTMB office in the Lansing Area

v Contracted staff will be supporting the Azure Cloud Services development deployment and updating of code modulars for standardizing service.

v Azure Cloud Services is a new service for DTMB OCTO and the skillset requires 35 years of experience and expertise in a large range of supporting services. The contracted staff will also be responsible and expected to train SoM FTEs in the service offering to enable SoM staff to transition into the role as needed.

Skill Matrix : Required

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

Create maintain and troubleshooting skills for cloud infrastructure

Highly Desirable

Experience with Servers Infrastructure Platform Sizing Infrastructure Cost Reduction

3 5 years

Cloud security experience

Highly Desirable

Chaos engineering experience

Highly Desirable

Certification(s) :

Azure MCSE : Cloud Platform and Infrastructure

Highly Desirable

Core Competencies

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

Core Tasks

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 onsite support engineers and fellow architects and administrators on bestfit 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 broadbased understanding of technology areas and endtoend 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 industrybased regulatory compliance requirements (e.g. NISTCIS PCI IRSPub 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 largescale workload and data migrations

Provide direct support to technical and nontechnical 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 onpremises technologies from Microsoft Dell EMC HP Nutanix Cohesity Pure Storage VMware Cisco and Rubrick.