SME Cloud Engineer

Description

Summary: GovCIO is hiring a SME Cloud Engineer with Azure and AWS expertise to design and manage multi-cloud architecture for the U.S. Coast Guard, focusing on integrating complex enterprise systems and ensuring operational authorization. Highlights: 1. Design and manage multi-cloud architecture for USCG 2. Integrate and automate enterprise management tools 3. Lead cloud system risk assessments and POA&M management Apply Now Overview: GovCIO is currently hiring for a SME Cloud Engineer with extensive experience in both Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to design and manage our multi-cloud architecture supporting the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG). This role provides high-level engineering, technical execution, and automion management to integre complex enterprise systems, manage cloud infrastructure, and ensure mission-critical USCG cloud environments achieve and retain operional authorizion. This position will be loced in Alexandria, VA, and will be a hybrid position. Responsibilities: As a SME Cloud Engineer, the ideal candide will specialize in the integrion and automion of enterprise management tools, with a strong focus on connecting Microsoft Sentinel, Swimlane, ACAS, and Tanium to cree a cohesive and automed infrastructure posture across our hybrid environment. Core responsibilities include: Manage multi-cloud engineering projects from inception to completion, ensuring the successful planning and execution of enterprise architecture controls for USCG networks. Develop automed workflows and playbooks within Swimlane to streamline operional responses and accelere system mitigion. Enhance system monitoring across plforms with advanced da configurions, operional rules, and log tuning within Microsoft Sentinel. Ensure real-time endpoint visibility, control, and continuous policy enforcement utilizing enterprise Tanium deployments. Provide deep, hands-on engineering support in the selection, tailoring, and automion of nive cloud architecture controls across Azure and AWS environments. Direct the selection and applicion of automed configurion monitoring and technical baseline checklists. Actively monitor ACAS system scans and collabore closely with technical infrastructure teams to engineer automed solutions for identified system discrepancies. Lead efforts in conducting cloud system risk assessments and Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) management across USCG plforms. Lead the drafting and maintenance of comprehensive architecture documention, systems engineering pterns, and federal compliance frameworks (such as ATO documention). Coordine multi-cloud integrion testing activities and finalize associed compliance and deployment documention. Manage the completion and routing of technical change management paperwork for infrastructure-as-code and systems policy updes. Coordine and execute tool onboarding processes for new cloud applicions, workloads, and resources. Engage and coordine with required USCG cloud infrastructure teams, operional commands, and systems departments. Respond accurely and promptly to operional readiness da calls and technical da requests.   Qualificions: High School with 12+ years (or commensure experience) Required Skills & Experience Certificions: Professional-level cloud engineering certificions (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, AWS Certified Security Specialty, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Azure Security Engineer Associe), alongside baseline enterprise IT certificions (e.g., CASP+ CE, CISSP, or equivalent technical baselines). Proven technical experience architecting, integring, and deploying Microsoft Sentinel and Swimlane plforms. Proven experience implementing and utilizing Tanium plforms for real-time enterprise endpoint visibility, compliance, and monitoring. Demonstred advanced practical user experience with Assured Compliance Assessment Solution (ACAS) for cloud-based vulnerability and configurion scanning. Deep, hands-on knowledge of system configurions across hybrid infrastructures using both AWS and Microsoft Azure nive resource groups, policies, and logging feures. Strong scripting skills using advanced languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Bash) to build cohesive workflows, automed playbooks, and continuous system monitoring tasks. Demonstred experience leading the engineering and execution of complex cloud infrastructure tool integrions from inception to completion within federal environments. Clearance Level: Must have an active Secret clearance     Preferred Skills & Experience Prior experience supporting the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), Department of Defense (DoD), or Federal cloud modernizion programs and architecture migrions. Advanced project management or infrastructure management certificions such as PMP. Deep knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Ansible to autome continuous monitoring tasks and playbook responses. Posted Salary Range: USD $170,000.00 - USD $218,000.00 /Yr.Apply Now