Cloud Engineer

Raye IT Consulting, LLC is a 8a certified minority woman-owned IT consulting and technology firm. Raye IT brings over 20 years experience in delivering mission-critical programs and support for the Federal Government and large agencies. We specialize in program and project management, capital planning and IT investment portfolio management, infrastructure support and application development deployment to include IT operations and maintenance.

We deliver value through technical and managerial expertise – innovation, efficient processes, executable strategies, and methodologies that generate tangible and measurable results to our clients across the Federal, Civilian and DoD sectors. Raye IT is looking for an innovative and experienced Cloud Engineer to support a federal client within the Washington, D.C. area.

Responsibilities

• Create and manage storage accounts across different Resource Groups.
• Managing Azure Entra ID (Active Directory) operations.
• Implementing Role Based Access Control (RBAC) in the Azure tenant.
• Creating Azure virtual machines based on the business requirements, manage the backups and install applications on the VM’s.
• Working and configuring Azure Log Analytics Workspace, managing logs, creating Azure Dashboards.
• Document all the processes and workflows, their dependencies, gap analysis and future plans for applications.
• Interact with the end users to provide Azure cloud support.
• Maintain and migrate the applications to Azure cloud.
• Create Azure resources based on client business process and requirements.
• Create and administer the databases in Azure cloud.
• Administer the Azure SQL Server.
• Optimizing the Azure resources for cost effectiveness.
• Provision and manage Azure Infrastructure resources required for the project using PowerShell.
• Implement Azure DevOps for code migrations and manage CI / CD pipelines.
• Migrate the workflows from on-prem and Azure cloud across different Azure tenant.
• Create API’s for specific Azure resources e.g. log analytics, ARM templates.
• Work with ETL operations using Azure Data Factory across different platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, software engineering, computer science, or related field. 8+ years of Cloud engineering experience. 5 years of Enterprise Data Management (EDW) experience in administering and provisioning Database servers, data backup and recovery procedures, auditing etc using On-prem or Cloud products.
• (Highly preferred) Able to use Terraform at mid to senior level to build cloud infrastructure. 3+ years of experience using Azure cloud services in provisioning and administrating services such as Azure Data factory, Azure Synapse, Azure Analysis services and Azure Active directory.
• Continuous integration, test automation and / or DevSecOps on iterative development projects.
• Assist with leading and overseeing a total system perspective including technical understanding of relationships, dependencies and requirements of cloud, on premise, and hybrid services, infrastructure and security domains.
• Preferred: Azure administration Certification.
• Security Clearance Requirement : Public Trust.
• Place of Performance: Washington, DC area (hybrid) Schedule: Monday - Friday

Benefits

401(k) 401(k) matching Health Insurance Dental Insurance Disability Insurance Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Life Insurance Paid Time Off Raye IT Consulting is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status.