Senior Cloud Engineer (802321)//Columbus, OH

[SatyaKeysoft]

Senior Cloud Engineer (802321)

Columbus, OH

12 Months

 

Short Description:

Position is 95% offsite, but selected candidate must be available for in-office as needed.

 

Complete Description:

 

The Senior Cloud Engineer Consultant (ITC1) serves as a senior-level technical resource responsible for the design, implementation, administration, and optimization of multi-cloud environments across the State of Ohio – Department of Developmental Disabilities enterprise. This position requires deep hands-on expertise across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The consultant will operate as a strategic partner and technical authority, collaborating extensively with all enterprise ITS teams — including Application Development, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Database Administration, Networking, and Help Desk — to ensure cloud solutions align with agency missions, security standards, and fiscal objectives.

 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS & RESPONSIBILITIES:

 

Cloud Engineering & Administration (60%)

•         Architect, deploy, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available cloud environments across Azure, AWS, GCP, and other SaaS/PaaS platforms.

•         Administer cloud services including compute, storage, networking, identity and access management (IAM), firewall, certificate, cryptographic, serverless functions, managed databases, and other services as needed.

•         Monitor cloud resource utilization, performance metrics, and cost allocation; develop and enforce FinOps practices to optimize state expenditures.

•         Manage cloud-native DevOps pipelines, CI/CD toolchains, containerized workloads (Docker/Kubernetes), and API gateway integrations.

•         Implement and maintain cloud disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) plans in compliance with the State of Ohio – Department of Developmental Disabilities BCDR planning standards.

•         Cybersecurity and Vulnerability management for cloud-based resources and external to internal modalities.

 

Cross-Team Collaboration & Technical Leadership (25%):

•         Partner with Application Development teams to evaluate cloud-native architectures and accelerate migration of legacy applications.

•         Coordinate with the Cybersecurity team to enforce Zero Trust principles, cloud security baselines, NIST SP 800-53 controls, FedRAMP compliance requirements, and State of Ohio – Department of Developmental Disabilities compliance requirements.

•         Collaborate with the Networking team to design and maintain hybrid connectivity solutions, including VPNs, ExpressRoute, Direct Connect, and SD-WAN integrations.

•         Work alongside Database Administrators to deploy and optimize managed cloud database services (Azure SQL, Amazon S3, Snowflake, etc.).

•         Partner with all State of Ohio – Department of Developmental Disabilities ITS teams to proactively manage and administer all security certificates in accordance with State of Ohio – Department of Developmental Disabilities policies.

•         Engage with Help Desk, Infrastructure, and DevOps teams to develop runbooks, escalation procedures, and technical training on cloud platforms.

•         Provide technical mentorship and knowledge transfer to junior ITS staff across all teams, present cloud strategies and project updates to leadership.

 

Governance, Compliance & Project Support (15%)

•         Contribute to the development and maintenance of cloud governance policies, standards, and architectural review processes.

•         Participate in technology procurement evaluations, vendor assessments, and Statements of Work (SOW) review for cloud services.

•         Support Agile/Scrum delivery teams by providing cloud infrastructure planning within sprint cycles and product roadmaps.

•         Maintain thorough documentation of cloud architecture diagrams, configuration standards, and system inventories in the State's CMDB.

 

Regards,

 
Satya
Technical Recruiter

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