Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Chameleon Integrated Services is an information technology company providing operations management, quality systems, data operations, and cybersecurity services for the Department of Defense and other U.S. federal agencies. The Cloud Engineer–SME will architect, deploy, and maintain secure enterprise data, analytics, and pipeline infrastructures in Azure Government and other restricted DoD environments, while leading cloud landing zones, data pipelines, infrastructure automation, security governance, APIs, and monitoring.
Responsibilities
- Design, configure, and maintain production-grade cloud landing zones, advanced enterprise network topographies, and zero-trust identity architectures within restricted DoD cloud nodes
- Build, test, and maintain resilient enterprise ETL/ELT pipelines for complex synchronization, data ingestion, and multi-source transformation frameworks using Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics
- Automate the entire infrastructure lifecycle using cloud-native declarative paradigms (Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates) to enforce strict configuration consistency and eliminate manual drifts
- Implement least-privilege cloud governance models using Azure Key Vault to handle complex encryption keys, dynamic application connections, API access tokens, and systemic cryptographic profiles
- Standardize system integration layers by designing, routing, and securing REST APIs and backend microservices via Azure API Management environments
- Engineer end-to-end audit readiness pipelines, custom metric dashboards, proactive system alerting arrays, and security logging via cloud-native monitoring systems
Skills
- * **Work Location: 100% Remote –** Ability to travel to Fort Lee, Virginia, at least three times annually and report onsite more frequently if directed
- * **Security Clearance:** Active U.S. DoD Secret Required (Time of Application)
- * **Required Core Experience:** 12+ Years of Documented Cloud Engineering
- * **Chronological Proof Gate:** Resume must explicitly reflect 12+ continuous years of specialized cloud engineering roles with clear dates validating work starting in August 2014 or earlier
- * **Cloud Domain Focus:** Extensive, hands-on production engineering within Azure Government, cArmy, or highly restricted federal enclaves under DoD IL5/IL6 compliance frameworks
- * Expert-level Azure Architecture design patterns (Hub-Spoke models, ExpressRoute, Secure Cloud Computing Architecture)
- * Production execution of Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, and structured Data Lake environments
- * Advanced deployment pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, or comparable automated CI/CD toolsets
- * Direct experience operating inside Azure Government, cArmy, or federal GCC High spaces
- * Comprehensive mastery of DoD/Army Architecture Standards and DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) and 6 (IL6) controls
- * Familiarity building or integrating cloud layers for GCSS-Army, NLAC, or Army G4 logistics modules
- * Prior architecture exposure to Strategic Enterprise Analytics (SEA) or comparable enterprise military data-lake structures
- * Deep functional understanding of defense analytics pipelines, military logistics platforms, or supply-chain telemetry data sets
Benefits
- Competitive Employee Health Insurance options including dental
- 100% company paid vision plan
- 401K plan with generous company match and no vesting period
- 100% company paid Life insurance
- 100% company paid long and short-term disability insurance
- Training allowance
- PTO and more
- 100% Remote
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