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Azure Cloud Admin

WorkingVet 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 VA system admins when supporting application teams, working with project teams to operate & maintain (O&M) VA applications on their cloud platform. The Cloud Administrator must have expertise with Microsoft Azure.

Key responsibilities:

  • Utilize the VA Enterprise Cloud Operational Tools (VAECOT), CSP native portals and tools, and/or other VA TRM-approved tools necessary to assist VA applications in the VA’s enterprise cloud (VAECOT tools listed at the bottom)
  • Utilize automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Formation, or similar
  • Assist with upgrading, installing, and configure monitoring solution for Azure for Windows or Linux servers.
  • Create and maintain gold images/scripts.
  • Assist with reporting on current infrastructure status.
  • Document each application’s production operations processes via a production operation manual (POM)
Must Have Qualifications:
  • Minimum of six (6) years setting up, configuring and using Azure cloud operational tools to ensure service level agreements and performance targets are met, and continued compliance with policies, standards and guidelines.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or technical discipline (4 years additional work experience might be considered in lieu of a degree).
  • Current Azure certification or a recent passing exam (e.g. AZ-900, AZ-104)
  • Experience in one or more of the VAECOT suite of tools, shown below.
  • Able to pass a background check to obtain a Public Trust
  • Must be a U.S. citizen or resident with 3 years in US residence.
  • Candidates that do not meet the minimum qualifications will not be considered.
Preferred Qualifications (soft skills, preferred, nice to have)
  • Active clearance for Public Trust (High-Risk) Position
  • •ITIL certification or ITIL knowledge
  • Can provide technical support and OS-level remediations for Nessus scans.
  • Some experience with network and/or systems administration in Linux (Red Hat) or Windows environments
  • Some knowledge of security regulations, best practices, countermeasures, compliance standards and current threats.
  • Experience creating technical documentation, standard operating procedures, and how-to guides.
  • Helping application teams with system administration
  • One or more Microsoft Azure cloud certifications
  • Previous Federal Government experience preferably at VA
  • Experience with at least one configuration technology including: Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
VAEC Operational Tools (VAECOT)

Some experience in one or more of the following tools is required:

Third party tools

  • Application Performance Monitoring: Dynatrace, AppDynamics
  • Cloud Security: Nessus, NetSkope, Enterprise Security External Change Council, Identity and Assessment Management, Continuous Monitoring as a Service, McAfee, eMASS, Centrify
  • Cloud Governance: Turbot
  • DevOps/Configuration Management/Help Desk: Ansible, Service Desk, ScienceLogic,ServiceNOW, SPLUNK, Jira ServiceDesk, Cloudockit, GitHub
  • Containerization: Red Hat OpenShift
  • Migration: CloudKey, Version One
  • Reporting: Apptio

Cloud Service Provider (CSP) Operational Tools Tools/Services

  • Azure Security: Monitor (Log Analytics and ASC), Event Hubs, Security Center (ASC) , Information Protection (AIP) , Key Vault, PowerBI, Network Watcher (Performance Monitor), Monitor (Log Analytics and ASC)
  • Azure Monitoring and Logging: Information Protection (AIP), Advance Threat Protection, Security Center (ASC), Information Protection (AIP), Key Vault, Active Directory, Role Based Access Control (RBAC), Resource Manager (ARM), Resource Graph (ARG), Active Directory B2C, Key Vault, App Service, Service Trust Portal
  • Azure Networking: Virtual Network, Traffic Manager, DNS, Application Gateway, Express Route, WebApps, FrontDoor, VPN Gateway, LoadBalancer, Firewall
  • Azure Storage: Netapp File Service, Storage (Blobs, Disks, Files, Queues, Tables), Storage Archive Access Tier, Stor Simple, Files, Backup