Cloud Platform Engineer

Everforth ECS is hiring a Cloud Platform Engineer to support a government multi-cloud environment using Azure and AWS GovCloud. The role designs, modernizes, secures, and maintains scalable cloud solutions, while supporting development and infrastructure teams and optimizing performance and cost.

Responsibilities:

• Provide subject matter expertise using best practices for designing cloud-based and hybrid solutions. Consulting, designing, and implementation of complex cloud solutions using Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud services, ensuring high availability, performance, and security
• Develop proofs of concept and MVPs of Azure and AWS services to solve current challenges
• Develop and maintain cloud architecture standards, best practices, and security guidelines for cloud adoption and migration
• Provision, manage, and set up monitoring in Azure and AWS cloud services/systems to support
• Build and improve GitLab CI/CD pipelines to automate application and infrastructure deployments
• Experience with deploying cloud serverless technologies and components such as Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions, Amazon EC2, Amazon EKS
• Familiarity with Azure and AWS data storage such as Azure Blob storage, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Files, Amazon S3, Elastic Block Store (EBS)
• Support design of secure cloud architecture, ensuring system components maintain strict compliance with ATO requirements and security frameworks (NIST/FedRAMP)
• Implement cloud security best practices, including identity and access management, network security, and data encryption
• Conduct risk assessments and audits to identify and address vulnerabilities in the cloud environment
• Continuously monitor and optimize the performance and cost-efficiency of cloud solutions
• Lead troubleshooting efforts for complex issues, ensuring minimal impact to the organization and driving root cause analysis

Requirements:

• US Citizenship required
• Ability to obtain a DHS Public Trust Security Clearance
• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of related cloud engineering experience
• Experience supporting Microsoft Azure GovCloud and Amazon Web Services GovCloud environments and solutions
• Expert in leading and collaborating with technical teams of diverse IT related skill sets
• Highly developed interpersonal and oral/written communication skills, with the ability to effectively and professionally interact with a diverse set of stakeholders
• Active Azure or AWS Certifications