SME Cloud Engineer

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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