Azure Cloud Engineer

Title: Azure Cloud Engineer

Location: Herndon, VA

Duration: Long-term Contract

Client: Dept of State/CSM project

Job Description:

• Seeking a Cloud Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position is located in Herndon, VA, but also supports telecommuting. The qualified applicant will become part of Department of State (DOS) Consular Systems Modernization (CSM) Program, for the Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA). This initiative is intended to modernize and consolidate the operational environment under a common technology framework in order to better support the services provided to CA's customers.
• As part of the modernization program, the Cloud Engineer will support related cloud migration activities, including designing and implementing cloud-based architectures that host containerized services and a modern analytic data science platform.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Design and implement Azure-based solution architectures
• Define and establish secure cloud configurations for Azure PaaS and IaaS
• Develop and maintain solutions / scripts to support automation of cloud configuration and administration
• Support security audits, accreditation and certification processes, and obtaining approval to operate (ATO) for cloud-based system architectures

Minimum Qualifications:

To be considered for this position, you must minimally meet the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed below:

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline and a minimum of 5 years' experience
• At least 3 years' experience implementing cloud-based architectures on Microsoft Azure, AWS, or GCP
• At least 1 year experience implementing cloud-based architectures on Microsoft Azure
• Experience using an infrastructure as code (IaC) provisioning framework (e.g., Ansible, Terraform)
• Active Secret (or higher) clearance (interim acceptable)

Preferred Qualifications:

Candidates with these desired skills will be given preferential consideration:

• Terraform scripting
• PowerShell scripting
• Azure IAM services and components, including Azure Active Directory (AAD), AAD roles, Azure RBAC, and Conditional Access policies
• Agile / Scaled Agile
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

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About Us:

CompQsoft Inc. Established in 1997, headquarters in Houston, TX and office in Leesburg, VA. CompQsoft offers a range of comprehensive Cyber Security, Infrastructure, Cloud solutions, ERP implementation, Business Intelligence, Application development, Ecommerce applications and Management consulting services. CompQsoft is Certified CMMI Level 3 practitioner for Development and Services, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 27001:2013 & ISO 200001:2011 Certified. CompQsoft is a fast growing company with a strategy and methodology that is strongly focused on the success of our clients, predominantly the Federal government.

CompQsoft provides equal opportunity in all aspects of employment and in the working environment to all employees and applicants. CompQsoft does not take any nonmerit factors like race, color, religion, sex (gender), mental/physical disability, and age into account for purposes of recruitment, hiring and development.

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