Job Description:

Avilamb is seeking to fill Azure Cloud Administrator positions in support of VA (Veterans Affairs) Cloud Operations and Migration Services (COMS) capability to provide operational input and support for the operations, maintenance, and refinement of VA’s Enterprise Cloud (VAEC) environment, execution support for migrating new and legacy VA applications and services to cloud computing and continuous improvement of VA’s IT infrastructure. The candidate will support our VA clients in their cloud operations to enhance, optimize, and maintain their computing capabilities across their technical landscape. This includes working with our Cloud Architects when interviewing clients to understand application and infrastructure current state. Working with our Cloud Architects leading client working sessions to identify, categorize, prioritize, and analyze data and information to work into cloud migration action plans. Working with the larger project teams to migrate legacy applications to their cloud platform. The Cloud Administrator must have expertise with Microsoft Azure services (e.g. Compute, Storage, Networking, Security, Management).

Key responsibilities:

· Provide operations and migration services that enable VA to tailor the availability and delivery of cloud computing services based on business and technical requirements

· Utilize the future VA Enterprise Cloud Operational Tools (VAECOT), CSP native portals and tools, and/or other VA TRM-approved tools necessary to provide operations and migration support

· Utilize automation tools to maintain application infrastructure such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or similar

· Assist with upgrading, installing, and configure monitoring solutions for Azure Windows servers

· Maintain gold images (AMIs) and infrastructure as code (IaC) via Terraform and CloudFormation

· Assisting with reporting on current infrastructure status, and planning for future usage

Must Have Qualifications:

· A minimum of 6 years of relevant work experience

· Bachelor's Degree in computer science, electronics engineering or other engineering or technical discipline OR Azure Certification (Azure Associate / Intermediate Cert. OR Azure Certification) OR 2 years of relevant experience in one of the VAECOT suite of tools (Science Logic, Dynatrace, Turbot, AppDynamics).

· 6 years of additional relevant experience.

· Must have experience with implementing, migrating, managing, and operating systems/applications in an enterprise cloud computing environment.

· Should have subject matter expertise with Microsoft Azure.

· Able to pass a background check to obtain a Public Trust

· Must be a U.S. citizen or GC holder

Candidates that do not meet the minimum qualifications will not be considered.

Preferred Qualifications (soft skills, preferred, nice to have):

· One or more Azure cloud certifications

· Active clearance for Public Trust (High-Risk) Position

· Experience with systems and/or network administration in Windows

· Automate provisioning and repetitive tasks, and implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC), using Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates etc.

· Monitor site stability, deployments, performance via event logging and metrics (experience with monitoring services like Azure Log Analytics or COTS products like Splunk)

· Provide technical support around Nessus scanning including execution of scans, scan result breakdown, and remediation of findings

· Developing and analyzing standard operating procedures (SOPs) and technical standards

· Create technical documents, diagrams, how-to guides, and other deliverables

· Provide assistance to system users (e.g. connectivity, password resets, start/stop VMs, etc.)

· Experience working in a CMMI-DEV or CMMI-SVC environment at Maturity Level 3 or above

· Previous Federal Government experience

· A minimum of 3 years of experience doing full scope of Windows administration

· A minimum of 2 years of relevant hands-on experience cloud experience in administering Azure.

· Experience with Agile and DevOps/DevSecOps models

· Experience with at least one configuration technology including: CloudFormation, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc.