Azure Engineer

Alpha Omega • Vienna, VA

4d • $101,000 - $130,000 • Remote

About The Position

Alpha Omega is searching for an experienced Azure Engineer to join one of our long-term Federal projects. Alpha Omega is looking for a Azure Engineer candidate to support one of our government customers. The primary responsibilities for the position are to support a mission critical application recently migrated and maintained in Azure. This candidate will report to our Lead Azure Engineer and project team lead to complete all Azure related work and application support. The nature of the work requires that the candidate demonstrates initiative, organization, responsibility, customer service skills, and the ability to be flexible and adaptive to a fast-paced, fluid business environment. The candidate must be able to communicate effectively and decisively with all levels of the organization, collaborate within and across teams, and be able to solve practical problems as well as exercise sound judgement with regards to sensitive and confidential information.

Requirements

• At least 3-5 years of proven experience in software development using .net and SQL Server
• Strong experience with infrastructure technology and understanding of public and private cloud concepts including, Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
• 2+ years of experience utilizing Azure infrastructure and managed services, including networks, VMs, storage, databases, and containers.
• 2+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - scripting and automation via AZ CLI/PowerShell, Bash, Bicep, JSON templates, Terraform, etc.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills in communicating technology information
• BS in a related technical field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) + 3 years of related systems engineering, designing platforms to support developers.

Responsibilities

• Provide support for a mission critical application maintained in Azure
• Collaborate with Azure pier architects and engineers on the program to maintain Microsoft Azure Solutions.
• Develop and implement automation solutions to support operations, provisioning, and cost control of assets/environments/products.
• Collaborate with other project teams to share lessons learned and best practices
• Attend and participate in all agile ceremonies and activities, including daily scrums
• Write automation code (IaC) and developing CI/CD pipelines

Benefits

• 15 days PTO including paid parental, military, and bereavement leave
• Eleven (11) paid Federal holidays, five of which are floating holidays (as designated by the company’s holiday schedule each year)
• Health and Dental Insurance (including 100% employer paid premiums for employee coverage under the HDHP health plan)
• Life Insurance, STD/LTD term disability coverage, with employer paid premiums
• 401 (k) plan with a match that is 100% vested after you complete two years of service
• FSA/DFSA/HSA flexible benefit plans
• Annual Tuition & Professional Development Reimbursement benefit.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior