Cloud Engineer
About The Position
The Cloud Engineer is an individual contributor within Enterprise Technology who supports the configuration, deployment, and maintenance of infrastructure, platform services, and virtualization capabilities across public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. The role applies developing cloud engineering expertise within a specific platform area while building understanding of wider organizational processes and stakeholders. Working within established guidelines and procedures, the Cloud Engineer solves standard problems, assesses routine processes for efficiency, and contributes to the quality of team work under the guidance of Senior and Principal Cloud Engineers. The position collaborates with Engineering, Operations, and Security organizations to support resilient, performant, and secure cloud solutions. It also explains technical information clearly in straightforward situations and may guide new team members on routine tasks. The position has 24/7 on-call responsibilities and is based at Fourth Street in Richmond, Virginia.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure, or related technical roles.
- Working knowledge of cloud platforms and services, including Microsoft Azure.
- Familiarity with cloud networking, identity, and security concepts, including Azure Virtual Networks, Entra ID, and cloud-native security controls.
- Experience following infrastructure-as-code and automation practices using Terraform, Bicep, ARM, or similar technologies.
- Basic understanding of cloud governance, security, and cost architecture concepts, including policy, tagging, and consumption models.
- Familiarity with cloud platform services, including compute, storage, networking, containers, and platform-as-a-service offerings.
- Basic understanding of CI/CD and automation platforms such as Azure DevOps, GitHub, or similar.
- Developing understanding of scalability, resiliency, performance, cost efficiency, observability, and disaster recovery concepts.
- Ability to solve standard problems using experience, judgment, and established precedent, and to work through routine problems using established guidance.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain information clearly in straightforward situations.
- Eagerness to learn and build expertise in cloud engineering practices, tools, and technologies.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) certification is required and must be obtained within established organizational timelines.
- Ability to meet the physical requirements of the role, including prolonged desk and computer work, frequent reaching and handling, occasional standing, walking, and bending, and occasional lifting of up to 10–20 pounds.
Nice To Haves
- Exposure to hybrid cloud environments using Azure Arc, Azure Local, or similar technologies.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104).
Responsibilities
- Configure cloud IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS resources, landing zone components, and shared cloud services using established instructions and patterns.
- Support identity and access management, network segmentation, environment isolation, and hybrid or multi-cloud connectivity tasks.
- Follow enterprise architecture guidance and engineering standards; assist with workload classification and cloud-readiness data collection.
- Monitor cloud environments and escalate issues affecting scalability, availability, security, observability, disaster recovery, or cost optimization.
- Respond to routine cloud engineering questions and escalate complex issues to Senior or Principal Cloud Engineers.
- Assist with governance, security, and cost architecture work alongside Information Security and GRC teams; configure security settings and apply governance, compliance, and cost controls as directed.
- Identify and report potential improvements to governance and operational practices, and participate in vulnerability research and remediation.
- Execute proof-of-concept tasks and assist with technical validation for workload onboarding, migration, and modernization initiatives.
- Write and maintain basic automation and provisioning scripts supporting cloud-native deployment models.
- Stay current on emerging cloud services and automation tools and share observations with senior engineers and architects.
- Partner with operations and engineering teams to transition validated designs into production-ready solutions.
- Collaborate with engineering, operations, and security teams to complete assigned work supporting well-architected cloud solutions.
- Support migration, modernization, and decommissioning through hands-on implementation under the guidance of more experienced engineers.
- Build proficiency in cloud engineering tasks and tools through structured learning, on-the-job training, and design and implementation reviews.
- Explain technical information clearly to team members and stakeholders and provide guidance to new team members on routine tasks when appropriate.
- Perform other duties and support additional administrative priorities consistent with the scope and level of the position.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
