Cloud Engineer Senior Principal

SAIC is currently seeking a Cloud Engineer Senior Principal to support Department of Transportation (D.O.T.) in Washington D.C. This individual will direct and prioritize team efforts for Microsoft 365, Google Cloud and Mail Engineering towers. They will architect solutions to accommodate complex business needs and provide strategic vision recommendations to Government customer engineer leads. Familiarity with both Amazon Web Services, Google Workspace (GWS) and Microsoft Azure cloud offerings and infrastructure strongly desired.

In addition to the duties required of a Cloud Engineer Senior Principal, this person will provide technical, managerial, and administrative direction for problem definition, analysis, requirements development and implementation for complex to extremely complex systems within cloud infrastructure.   

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical, managerial, and administrative direction for planning and completing operational tasks, as well as tasks aligned to strategic initiatives across the enterprise.

• Lead in the strategy, design, implementation, and maintenance of DOT’s Google Workspace and Microsoft infrastructure.

• Work with stakeholders to gather requirements and define the scope of projects.

• Develop and implement solutions that meet the needs of the DOT mission.

• Stay up to date on the latest computing technologies and trends.

• Mentor and develop engineers to ensure the team is well-equipped to meet DOT’s needs.

• Communicating status with agency senior leadership.

• Collaborate with other infrastructure teams to realize operational efficiencies within the agency cloud offering. This includes working with vendors to identify potential approaches and rationalize solutions that are best fit for agency environment.

Required Qualifications:

• 15+ years of experience within information technology architecting and implementing solutions (solutions cover initiatives such as deployment of business applications, deployment of enterprise tools, etc.); additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree.

• Demonstrated understanding of principles supporting compute, network, storage, and their application within the cloud (AWS, GWS and/or Azure).

• Demonstrated understanding of application architectures (web tier, application tier, database tier) and their implementation in the cloud.

• Deep understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices for sustaining an enterprise cloud environment.

• Demonstrated understanding of security best practices and their application as they relate to cloud-based environments and workloads (access management, monitoring, configuration management, etc.)

• Understanding of DevSecOps pipelines and toolsets and how they can work to create an enterprise shared service.

• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture principles and practices with the ability to identify, rationalize, and solution opportunities for improvement.

• Ability to prioritize, balance, and direct team member activities between ad-hoc tasking and planned initiatives.

• Experience in developing, planning, and implementing strategic initiatives within a roadmap.

• ITIL v3/v4 Certification is a plus.

Additional Skills:

• Strong understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices across cloud service providers.

• Experience assessing, customizing, troubleshooting, optimizing, and maintaining current and emerging technologies, platforms, and applications to help ensure greater security and efficiencies, covering network, computing and storage principles.

• Experience with cloud orchestration tools and continuous delivery processes to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure for customers to consume.

• Demonstrated proficiency in automating processes with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Packer, PowerShell, or Python, including use of remote APIs.

• Experience working with containers and container orchestration systems and hardening practices.

• AWS Solutions Architect Associate and/or Azure Administrator Associate certifications or higher.

• Certified in Microsoft O365 or equivalent.

• Can maintain an effective customer relationship and workload/portfolio management with Federal and Contractor leadership, as well as End-users for delivery of mail and cloud services.

• Highly cohesive team member and a change agent while serving as a consultant.

Note: Candidate must be a U.S. citizen or green card holder who has resided in the U.S. for at least 3 years and the ability to obtain a public trust.