**Description** SAIC is seeking a Cloud Engineer to join our Innovations & Solutions (IS) team in support of the Department of Veterans Affairs Financial Service Center (FSC) program. The Cloud Engineer is responsible for driving innovation & automation that adheres to cloud architectural best practices within the FSC Azure cloud platform. This includes designing & implementing new cloud platform solutions that accelerate cloud migrations from on-prem to Azure, reduce costs, and improve overall security and resiliency of systems & workloads in Azure. **Key Responsibilities:** + Assist in provisioning and maintaining cloud infrastructure. + Automate deployment pipelines in a scalable, secure and reliable manner. + Troubleshoot issues with application deployments to Azure. + Implement industry cloud best practices for security, performance, cost, & resiliency in all aspects of design & implementation. + Drive proof-of-concept prototypes that assess the feasibility of solutions and demonstrate to our customer how technology can be leveraged. + Optimize the existing cloud migration process by introducing more automation into existing workflows with the end goal of speeding up on-premise to cloud migrations. + Promote continual improvement through automation of existing cloud tools & pipelines. + Support the IS team in maintaining the Terraform Enterprise server & performing version upgrades. + Collaborate with other Engineers, Developers, DBAs, System Administrators and Product teams when designing new or improving existing cloud solutions. + Create knowledge-base articles for new tools and processes you implement. **Qualifications** **Required Experience:** + **Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance.** + Experience deploying, managing, and monitoring Azure virtual machines (VMs), virtual machine scale sets, and container services like Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Azure Container Apps. + Knowledge of Azure ecosystems at scale. + Hands-on experience building and maintaining Azure infrastructure through IaC tools, preferably Terraform. + Prior experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions. + Experience with Powershell, Python, BASH, etc. **Required Qualifications:** + 5 years of experience as an Engineer or similar role. + Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems engineering, or related technical discipline (5 years of additional relevant experience may substitute for education). + Three (3) years of experience and proven success in Azure design, support and management within a large-scale organization. + Experience building and deploying with Linux, UNIX and Windows technologies. + Understanding of industry standard system architecture and system management concepts and tools. **Nice to Have:** + Azure associate level or higher certifications. + Container orchestration experience - Kubernetes, OpenShift. + Software development experience in an enterprise setting. + AWS Experience. + Excellent writing skills. + Excellent oral communication and presentation skills. Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors. REQNUMBER: 2511658 SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability