Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Elios AI is seeking a Cloud & Platform Engineer to manage the hosting and infrastructure operations of a large-scale federal financial system running in Azure Government Cloud. The role involves maintaining system availability, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring the stability of complex integrations and batch processes during a critical transition period.
Responsibilities
- Manage and support Azure GovCloud infrastructure including VMs, storage, and networking. Maintain system availability and performance against SLA targets. Troubleshoot infrastructure issues that impact application and integration layers
- Operate and support OpenShift clusters: nodes, pods, configurations. Monitor and troubleshoot containerized services and ESB workloads. Support platform-level changes, deployments, and restarts
- Support Oracle database environments including OLTP, standby, and replication. Assist with backup, restore, and data validation during incidents. Enable production debugging through controlled data access
- Support SFTP and file transfer pipelines through VLTrader and related systems. Troubleshoot integration failures across internal and external systems including FPDS and payroll interfaces. Validate data movement and interface execution
- Monitor and support Control-M batch job execution. Troubleshoot failed or delayed batch processes. Ensure critical financial processing cycles complete on time
- Use Dynatrace, Splunk, and Azure Monitor to detect and diagnose issues. Participate in incident response and root cause analysis. Coordinate with application and business teams during outages
- Support patching, vulnerability remediation, and compliance activities. Manage access through enterprise tools (AD groups, jump boxes, privileged access). Ensure adherence to least-privilege and separation-of-duties principles
- Support infrastructure aspects of deployments and system changes. Coordinate maintenance windows and system restarts. Ensure changes follow proper approval and rollback procedures
- Support DR readiness across Azure regions. Participate in failover testing and validation. Assist in maintaining RTO/RPO objectives
Skills
- Experience with Azure, specifically GovCloud or enterprise-scale environments
- Strong Linux (RHEL) system administration skills
- Experience operating Kubernetes or OpenShift container platforms in production
- Familiarity with Oracle databases and enterprise data systems
- Track record supporting production systems in a 24/7 environment
- Hands-on experience with Splunk and Dynatrace for monitoring and log analysis
- Ability to troubleshoot across infrastructure, platform, and integration layers simultaneously
- Experience with federal systems or regulated environments (VA, DoD)
- Familiarity with Control-M or enterprise job schedulers
- Experience with secure file transfer systems (SFTP, AS2, VLTrader)
- Understanding of integration architectures: ESB, APIs, batch interfaces
- Experience with DevOps tooling (Jenkins, Helm, Puppet)
- Familiarity with RMF, ATO, or federal security compliance processes
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