Enterprise Cloud Solution Engineer

Job:OA/OIT - FA1 (728895)

Location : Remote (Candidate should be 2hrs drive radius)

Client : State of PA

Job Description:

OA/OIT - FA1 A4 SC3 - Enterprise Cloud Solution Engineer

Responsibilities include the following:

• Act as a primary point of contact for cloud related questions, technical expertise, administration, and support problems for the Commonwealth of PA.
• Provide appropriate communications to COPA management, including rapid notification of issues that impact the enterprise cloud environment.
• Assistance with basic design and implementation of cloud architectures and cloud technologies that meet COPA's technical, security, and business needs.
• Provide expert level advice and guidance on IT issues relating to cloud technologies.
• Work with CoPA Delivery Center teams in defining cloud architecture, design and implementation plans for hosting IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS workloads on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Work with COPA Security team to ensure cloud solutions meet all security policy requirements.
• Implement cloud auditing, backup and recovery, DR, HA solutions to increase security stance and minimize risk of data loss and protection.
• Provide incident resolution focusing on root cause analysis, prevention, and knowledge transfer.
• Create & maintain support documentation, architecture diagrams & communications.
• Manage escalations with cloud service providers and other vendors for a timely resolution of operational and design issues.
• Hands on experience with Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services.
• Administrator certifications in Azure and/or AWS
• In depth knowledge of on-premises networking as well as the hybrid connectivity to AWS and/or Azure (via Direct Connect and/or ExpressRoute)

Requirements:

• Must pass an extensive background check.
• 3-5 years of experience as a System Engineer and/or Cloud Engineer with hands on experience dealing with implementation, security, and standards/best practices in a hybrid enterprise cloud hosting environment (AWS and Azure).
• Experience as a System Engineer and/or Cloud Engineer
• Required 5 Years Hands-on experience dealing with implementation, security, and standards/best practices in hybrid enterprise cloud hosting environment
• Required 5 Years Experience with Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services cloud services
• Required 5 Years In-depth knowledge of on-premises networking as well as the hybrid connectivity to AWS and/or Azure (via Direct Connect and/or ExpressRoute) Required