Cloud Engineer – Subject Matter Expert (SME)

Chameleon Integrated Services•St. Louis, MO

3d•Remote

About The Position

We are a growing information technology company that offers its employees a culture of success, the chance to work on revolutionary federal IT infrastructure, and the opportunity to grow alongside cutting-edge technology that is reshaping the industry. We are seeking forward thinking candidates that have strong experience in operational support and can help take to the next level in a pro-active stance. Chameleon Integrated Services has expertise in operations management, quality systems, data operations and cybersecurity. We secure some of the most sensitive data for the Department of Defense and for other U. S. federal government agencies. We are known for the great care we take with clients and employees, and we believe in promoting from within.

Requirements

12+ Years of Documented Cloud Engineering
Resume must explicitly reflect 12+ continuous years of specialized cloud engineering roles with clear dates validating work starting in August 2014 or earlier.
Extensive, hands-on production engineering within Azure Government, cArmy, or highly restricted federal enclaves under DoD IL5/IL6 compliance frameworks.
Expert-level Azure Architecture design patterns (Hub-Spoke models, ExpressRoute, Secure Cloud Computing Architecture).
Production execution of Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, and structured Data Lake environments.
Advanced deployment pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, or comparable automated CI/CD toolsets.
Direct experience operating inside Azure Government, cArmy, or federal GCC High spaces.
Comprehensive mastery of DoD/Army Architecture Standards and DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) and 6 (IL6) controls.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity building or integrating cloud layers for GCSS-Army, NLAC, or Army G4 logistics modules.
Prior architecture exposure to Strategic Enterprise Analytics (SEA) or comparable enterprise military data-lake structures.
Deep functional understanding of defense analytics pipelines, military logistics platforms, or supply-chain telemetry data sets.

Responsibilities

Design, configure, and maintain production-grade cloud landing zones, advanced enterprise network topographies, and zero-trust identity architectures within restricted DoD cloud nodes.
Build, test, and maintain resilient enterprise ETL/ELT pipelines for complex synchronization, data ingestion, and multi-source transformation frameworks using Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics.
Automate the entire infrastructure lifecycle using cloud-native declarative paradigms (Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates) to enforce strict configuration consistency and eliminate manual drifts.
Implement least-privilege cloud governance models using Azure Key Vault to handle complex encryption keys, dynamic application connections, API access tokens, and systemic cryptographic profiles.
Standardize system integration layers by designing, routing, and securing REST APIs and backend microservices via Azure API Management environments.
Engineer end-to-end audit readiness pipelines, custom metric dashboards, proactive system alerting arrays, and security logging via cloud-native monitoring systems.