Senior Cloud Engineer

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to streamline cutting-edge cloud and data technologies for the Air Force. The position is fully onsite in Lorton, VA.

Must have active Top Secret clearance.

Responsibilities:

• Perform the Enclave Administrator (EA) role on behalf of the Customer, including deployment and maintenance of Mission Enclave infrastructure and all application-related responsibilities on Mission Enclave environment.

• System health monitoring include Azure Solution System Health, Program Application availability, and Capacity Management.

• Operational System Management (trouble tickets) - input, re-route, field, and escalate as appropriate.

• Conduct appropriate troubleshooting and remediation activities to include coordinating with System Owners, Product Team, and Migration Team for issues and coordinating with the appropriate team and/or personnel.

• Participate in planning sessions, and technical presentations, with customer project leads and staff.

• Analyze technical requirements and develop effective solutions.

• Complete regular maintenance on all systems / applications. This includes regular patching and vulnerability remediation and addressing end of service/end of life replacements.

• Complete approved configuration updates/changes and escalate where required if high-level architectural updates are needed.

• Sets up and delegates application-related responsibilities to Customer Mission Applications Administrator (MAA) role, which we provide to our Customer and their Mission Partners so they can administer applications within their enclave.

• Work closely with Customer as shared technical lead. Enable development, analysis, and deployment to be delivered on schedule and in line with Customer requirements.

Requirements:

• Active Top Secret clearance

• Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent industry work experience)

• 8+ years of experience in systems engineering

• Candidate must acquire a CompTIA Security+ (or higher level security certification) within the first 30 days of hire.

• Azure Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevSecOps experience (Bicep, ARM, PowerShell, CLI)

• Experience within C4 networks / operating environments and SAP networks / operating environments preferred.

• Experience in one, or more, of the following: Cloud technologies, data and AI, security, business application design and implementation.

• Ability to self-manage for maintenance of workloads and ensuring appropriate support of all systems/applications/workloads existing within the enclave (operational boundary)

Compensation:

$170,000-180,000kdepending on experience and degree

Full Benefits -Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Paid Holidays, PTO, Sick Leave if required by law

This job opens for applications on 5/5/2025. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date click apply for full job details