Azure Cloud Engineer

Job ID: 2511658

Location: REMOTE WORK, TX, US

Date Posted: 2025-11-18

Category: Information Technology

Subcategory: Cloud Comp Engr

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: No

Minimum Clearance Required: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust

Potential for Remote Work: Yes

Description

SAIC is seeking a Cloud Engineer to join our Innovations & Solutions (IS) team in support of the Department of Veterans Affairs Financial Service Center (FSC) program. The Cloud Engineer is responsible for driving innovation & automation that adheres to cloud architectural best practices within the FSC Azure cloud platform. This includes designing & implementing new cloud platform solutions that accelerate cloud migrations from on-prem to Azure, reduce costs, and improve overall security and resiliency of systems & workloads in Azure.



Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in provisioning and maintaining cloud infrastructure
• Automate deployment pipelines in a scalable, secure and reliable manner
• Troubleshoot issues with application deployments to Azure
• Implement industry cloud best practices for security, performance, cost, & resiliency in all aspects of design & implementation
• Drive proof-of-concept prototypes that assess the feasibility of solutions and demonstrate to our customer how technology can be leveraged
• Optimize the existing cloud migration process by introducing more automation into existing workflows with the end goal of speeding up on-premise to cloud migrations
• Promote continual improvement through automation of existing cloud tools & pipelines
• Support the IS team in maintaining the Terraform Enterprise server & performing version upgrades
• Collaborate with other Engineers, Developers, DBAs, System Administrators and Product teams when designing new or improving existing cloud solutions
• Create knowledge-base articles for new tools and processes you implement

Qualifications

Required Experience:

• Experience deploying, managing, and monitoring Azure virtual machines (VMs), virtual machine scale sets, and container services like Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Azure Container Apps
• Knowledge of Azure ecosystems at scale
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining Azure infrastructure through IaC tools, preferably Terraform.
• Prior experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions
• Experience with Powershell, Python, BASH, etc.

Required Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience as an Engineer or similar role
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems engineering, or related technical discipline (5 years of additional relevant experience may substitute for education)
• Three (3) years of experience and proven success in Azure design, support and management within a large-scale organization
• Experience building and deploying with Linux, UNIX and Windows technologies
• Understanding of industry standard system architecture and system management concepts and tools

Nice to Have:

• Azure associate level or higher certifications
• Container orchestration experience - Kubernetes, OpenShift
• Software development experience in an enterprise setting
• AWS Experience
• Excellent writing skills
• Excellent oral communication and presentation skills

Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.