Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Soft Tech Consulting•Rockville, MD

21h•Remote

About The Position

Soft Tech Consulting, Inc. is seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join their program, delivering innovative cloud solutions for a government client. The program is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing enterprise infrastructure for hosting applications and solutions, including both on-prem and cloud. In this role, the Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer will be a valuable member of a DevOps team, designing and implementing cloud infrastructure and automation. This position leverages deep technical knowledge to support a custom ChatGPT model for the intramural community to address scientific research challenges. The ability to solve problems and a collaborative approach will be instrumental in guiding the team towards scalable and efficient solutions that meet evolving needs. The company invites individuals passionate about crafting transformative solutions and thriving in a fast-paced, collaborative environment to join their team.

Requirements

US CITIZEN; GREEN CARD HOLDER
MUST BE ABLE TO OBTAIN PUBLIC TRUST
BS/BA (or equivalent)
Minimum of 10 years related experienced
Excellent written and communication skills
Strong troubleshooting skills
Minimum of 10 years’ experience as a cloud engineer with cloud and enterprise infrastructure technologies in a medium to large enterprise
Hands-on experience in system administration, automation frameworks, patch management, monitoring, certificate management and data protection and backup approaches.
Hands-on Azure experience to include: Implementing and supporting Azure AI Foundry, serverless compute, vector databases/search platforms, and knowledge integration architectures (RAG patterns preferred).
Hands-on Azure experience to include: Implementing and supporting RBAC, identity management, and conditional access policies via Azure AD / Entra ID
Hands-on Azure experience to include: Monitoring and performance tuning using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Alerts
Hands-on Azure experience to include: Deploying, managing, and troubleshooting network components such as Load Balancers, Virtual Networks (VNets), API gateways, Firewalls, and Route Tables.
Experience designing and building CI/CD pipelines
Infrastructure-as-code experience to include experience with ARM templates and/or Terraform, writing custom modules from scratch, and helping guide and contribute to a large and growing codebase

Nice To Haves

Experience managing and integrating AI models and tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and DALL-E.
Experience working in a life-sciences oriented environment
Writing code (Powershell, Python, Ruby, etc.) from scratch to solve problems
Experience using Git to manage shared software configuration code bases

Responsibilities

Work closely with all relevant stakeholders to design, secure, and implement Azure cloud infrastructure solutions for multi-modal LLM and RAG-based architectures, including Azure AI Foundry, vector indexing, knowledge source integration, and distributed cloud AI services.
Support evolving features such as agentic capabilities, MCP integrations, and enterprise knowledge connectivity.
Use automation and codify best practices to enhance scalability, resiliency, and operational efficiency across cloud infrastructure.
Focus on streamlining system administration, reducing manual effort, and improving system reliability through scripting, configuration management, and modern ops methodologies.
Use second-order thinking to identify the short, medium, and long term consequences of any architecture and decisions to identify risks, understand impact, meet requirements, and continue to drive customer value.
Use knowledge and experience with supporting application development lifecycles to recommend and engineer CI/CD pipelines to deploy code, conduct security scans and perform application health checks.
Monitor system performance, reliability, and cost optimization, including logging, telemetry, incident response, and cloud resource governance.
Participate in audits by providing artifacts to address NIST 800-53 rev5 controls and support the requirement to maintain an Authority to Operate (ATO).