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Sr Azure Government Cloud Network Engineer

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terraform
azure devops
government cloud
azure
zero trust
azure application gateway

Summary

Candidates requiring visa sponsorship now or in the future are not eligible to apply for this opportunity.

C2C or 1099 not available for this opportunity! Potential candidates will need to have the ability to work W2 on Prominents’ payroll during the contract period.
Prominent is assisting our client with a REMOTE contract to hire opportunity for a Senior Azure Government Cloud Network Engineer (Zero-Trust, IaC, & Advanced Routing). As a Senior Azure Government Cloud Network Engineer, you will be operating within a multi-location Scaled Agile framework, you will build automated infrastructure gates, integrate service virtualization, and implement expert-level routing frameworks. You will leverage VWAN with Routing Intent, Secured Hubs, Forced Tunneling, and advanced BGP configurations to support dark launching, dynamic feature flagging via Azure App Configuration, and multi-tiered automated performance testing.
Responsibilities
1. Expert-Level Enterprise Routing & Traffic Engineering to include:

Advanced VWAN Orchestration: Design and manage global Azure Virtual WAN (VWAN) architectures utilizing Secured Virtual Hubs integrated with security partners or Azure Firewall to centrally govern all cloud-native traffic.
Deterministic Routing Intent: Implement Routing Intent and Routing Policies within VWAN to systematically direct all private and internet-bound traffic (Internet and Private Traffic categories) through security appliances without complex manual programming.
Dynamic Hybrid BGP Optimization: Engineer resilient, multi-site Azure ExpressRoute data paths using advanced Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) communities, multi-exit discriminators (MED), and AS-path prepending to enforce predictable failover paths for distributed federal sites.
Forced Tunneling & Symmetric Routing: Author rigorous User-Defined Routes (UDRs) and BGP policies to mandate Forced Tunneling, ensuring all branch, cloud, and edge-bound traffic is backhauled to specific inspection boundaries without causing asymmetric routing drops.

2. Immutable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation using Terraform. (100% Code-Driven Architecture)
3. Architect and maintain high-fidelity environments within Azure GovCloud, ensuring strict compliance with US federal security frameworks (e.g., FedRAMP High, DoD SRG Impact Level 4/5, CJIS). This includes :

Zero-Trust Micro-segmentation.
High-Assurance Gateways using ExpressRoute.

4. Eliminate Staging Drift. Decoupled Integration & DEV Isolation: Configure Azure Private DNS zones and localized routing mechanisms via IaC to support API Contract Testing and Service Virtualization, keeping early-stage testing entirely self-contained for distributed teams. Distributed Scaled Agile Collaboration: Partner closely with decentralized, multi-location engineering squads, Product Leads, Quality Leads, and App Leads across Agile release trains (ARTs) to map infrastructure requirements directly to ADO User Stories and maintain a 100% Requirements Traceability Matrix Depth. Performance-Ready Fabrics.
5. Traffic Management & Zero-Day Validation to include Dark Launch Infrastructure, Targeted UI Routing, Centralized Configuration Access, Instantaneous Failure Recovery.
Required Skills

Expert-Level Azure Routing Toolkit: Proven history deploying Azure Virtual WAN (VWAN) with Routing Intent, Secured Virtual Hubs, Forced Tunneling, and complex User-Defined Routes (UDRs).
Advanced BGP & Hybrid Connectivity: Mastery of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) engineering over multi-circuit Azure ExpressRoute and VPN gateways in high-availability enterprise configurations.
Advanced Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proven mastery of Terraform to build declarative, production-grade, and immutable multi-environment architectures.
Azure Government Cloud Expertise: Deep experience navigating the specific constraints, endpoint differences, and compliance parameters of Azure GovCloud.
Microservices & Container Networking: Strong understanding of service-to-service communication, ingress controllers, and overlay/underlay networking (e.g., Azure CNI) for autonomous microservices.
Scaled Agile Workflow Integration: Solid experience operating in distributed, multi-location environments utilizing frameworks like SAFe or Scrum-at-Scale, leveraging Azure DevOps (ADO) for linking infrastructure work items to application features.
Traffic & Packet Analytics: Proficiency using Azure Network Watcher, Traffic Analytics, and Azure Monitor to capture database lag, CPU/memory telemetry, and error behaviors under heavy simulated traffic loads.

Shift-Left Advocate. TDD/BDD Aligned. Zero-Bug Accountability.

Anticipated hourly rate while on contract is anticipated to be within a range of $65-75/hr.

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Dice Id: 90981209
Position Id: 158
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