Azure Cloud Engineer

Summit Technologies, Inc. is looking for an Azure Cloud Engineer to join our clients team, an independent US government agency. You will be responsible for the architecture design/planning, management, support, and oversight of the Azure PaaS/IaaS environment. This is a hybrid role based in Washington, D.C. Candidates must be eligible for a Public Trust clearance.
Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conceptualize, design and architect the Microsoft Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS)/Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) environment.
• Develop the architecture and design deliverables and provide support as an Azure SME.
• Gather specifications and deliver solutions to the organization, based on understanding of Microsoft Azure domain/technology.
• Effectively present public and hybrid Cloud-based architectural design concepts and solutions to all levels in the organization.
• Drive decision making, identify alternatives, recognize pros and cons, and make recommendations.
• Anticipate when architectural change will be needed and prepare the organization for a successful transition.
• Build public and hybrid Cloud-based, optimized reference applications/infrastructure, show-casing event driven, elastically scalable, fault tolerant and other Cloud architecture patterns.
• Drive public and hybrid cloud-based, proof-of-concept prototypes that assess the feasibility of solutions and demonstrate to customers how technology can be leveraged.
• Identify, analyze and resolve the most complex public and hybrid Cloud-based issues.
• Identify and balance risks and rewards to meet objectives.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Three years experience in Azure design, support and management within a large-scale organization.
• Direct experience with Cloud platform technologies such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud, etc.
• Expert knowledge of virtual application delivery technologies.
• Experience building and deploying with Linux, UNIX and Windows technologies.
• Experience supporting and documenting build and configuration changes throughout environments.
• Understanding of industry standard system architecture, system management concepts and tools.
• Experience in the design, deployment, and support of large, complex systems.

Security Clearance:

• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

If you feel you are qualified and want to be considered for this position, please supply the following to: s1i9phffhrkgwawnf4zknfejah@crelate.net , and please put the job number 6665 in the subject line:

• Updated resume including MM/YYYY for each employer.
• Best times/dates to interview (plus phone # you can best be contacted at).
• Availability to start once given formal offers.

Summit Technologies Inc. appreciates your interest. We will contact the best matching prospects and will consider you for future opportunities. We will not submit your resume without your prior knowledge and consent. We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.