Candidates must have an active Secret clearance and verify before applying that you meet the minimum requirements of the position.

As an Azure Jr Cloud Engineer you will help the Army provide cloud and technical engineering to solve challenges using state-of-the-art cloud solutions. You will work on exciting projects, growing your skills, and work with other dedicated people who are solving mission and organizational needs.

Tasking

• Comfortable in a client-facing situation to help create innovative business solutions based on your Azure Cloud networking and administration experience.
• Participate in the design and implementation of secure operational solutions and services across the client’s business and IT support areas.
• Support migration and deployment of applications to Army Azure Cloud environment?
• Implementation and operations of operational capabilities and tooling (Azure native first) required for ongoing operations in the areas of:
  • Monitoring
  • Alerting
  • Security Controls
  • Backups/Restore
  • Disaster Recovery
• Develop and maintain software solutions/scripts to support automation of cloud configuration and administration
• Implement cloud infrastructure solution offerings based on public cloud, private cloud, hybrid client environments, and multi-cloud environments
• Support security audits, accreditation, and certification processes for cloud-based system architectures
• Build, maintain and monitor comprehensive alerting and monitoring tools to maintain awareness of, and expedite troubleshooting of infrastructure related issues in Azure environments
• Provide advisement to other team members and customers on best practices for the implementation of Cloud components, tools, dashboards, and automation
• Serve as point of escalation for challenging and complex issue resolution
• Defining and ensuring team members follow a rigorous server patching process

Location and Travel Details
Location flexible with preference to Ft. Eustis, Austin, TX or NOVA

Possible occasion travel as needed

Security Clearance and Citizenship Requirements

Active Secret Security Clearance

Experience

• MSSA Training or equivalent in the Server and Cloud Administration Learning Path
• Knowledge of production readiness and operation capabilities using tools like Azure Monitor, Azure Sentinel, Azure Automation, Azure Backup, Azure Security Center, etc.
• Apply these capabilities to IaaS and PaaS services such and VMs, Azure Service Environment ASE, Azure Kubernetes Service AKS, Spring Cloud, Azure Virtual Desktop, etc.
• Be well versed in general infrastructure technology and?understand?public and private cloud concepts such as Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Desktop as a Service (DaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)?
• Experience with automation to Infrastructure (IaC?- Infrastructure as Code such as ARM and Terraform)?
• Experience with the Cloud, Windows/SQL Server, PowerShell scripting, and virtualization
• Experience developing, deploying, configuring, and managing cloud-based systems supporting enterprise web-based?applications?
• Ability to manage Azure subscriptions and resources, implement and manage storage, deploy and manage virtual machines, PaaS services, configure and manage virtual networks, and manage identities?

Must have’s

• Obtain or utilize certifications as part of continuous professional growth, especially Microsoft infrastructure and Azure related certifications .
• Security+ or equivalent certification or ability to quickly obtain
• Experience with Terraform
• PowerShell scripting for task automation; Infrastructure as Code

JANUS strives to provide opportunities for career growth through training and development. We also offer an attractive comprehensive benefit package to include health and welfare plans and financial products. As part of a total rewards program, employees can benefit from our referral bonus program, and other various employee awards. JANUS Research Group takes pride in our benefit package and rewards program which has earned us the certification of a Great Place to Work™

JANUS Research Group provides reasonable accommodation so that qualified applicants with a disability may participate in the selection process. Please advise us of any accommodations you request to express interest in a position by e-mailing: Alisha Pollard, Director of Human Resources at alisha.pollard@janusresearch.com or calling (706) 364-9100. Please state your request for assistance in your message. Only reasonable accommodation requests related to applying for a specific position within JANUS Research Group will be reviewed at the e-mail address and phone number supplied. Thank you for considering a career with JANUS Research Group.

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