Halcyon Days Consulting (HDC) is a veteran owned small business with combined experience in and out of uniform. The HDC team is composed of subject matter experts who specialize in software development, data management and analysis for the DOD, IC, and other government and commercial partners. 

BENEFITS:
HDC believes GREAT teams need GREAT tools!
Health Care - Employer paid medical , dental, vision for the employee and their dependents
401K - Employer  contributed 3% Safe Harbor, also up to 5% employer match, and 100% vested on hire date
PTO/Holiday - 160 hours PTO/Sick leave per year, 11 paid holidays per year
Tuition Assistance - Up to $5250 per year

SALARY RANGE: 
$160,000 - $190,000
This salary range is an hourly exempt (exempt from overtime) position. Benefits are provided in addition to the salary range. 

Title: Cloud Platform Engineer
Clearance Required: None
Location: Stevensville, MD

DESCRIPTION:
This is a full-time position and work is performed at a customer location. The Senior Cloud Platform Engineer is responsible for designing and implementing advanced functions of Microsoft Office 365 and/or Azure AD Premium, including security, governance, and compliance.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Provide second-level support for issues regarding compute, network, and storage on AWS and Azure.
• Possesses a strong understanding of features and capabilities of the Microsoft Cloud Platform
  •  (security, firewalls, Redis Cache, Key Vault, Service Bus, ASR, networking, OMS, Blob Storage, Resource Groups, NSG, Application Insights, SQL Server, SQL DB, load balancers).
• Designs and implements Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) identity solutions.
• Responsible for designing solutions in Microsoft Azure per project specifications and needs.
• Drives architecture and technical discussions to lead cloud security, privacy, and compliance decisions for scale, performance, agility, and HA/DR considerations.
• Responsible for configuring and managing the customer’s Azure cloud environment.
• Analyzes systems and identifies problems migrating to Azure cloud.
• Implements CI/CD-based application development methodology using tools such as Jenkins/TFS/PowerShell, as well as working with customers to ensure smooth and successful implementation, delivery, and deployment of complex solutions.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design and implement computer and information networks, such as local area networks (LAN), wide area networks (WAN), intranets, extranets, and other data communications networks.
• Perform network modeling, analysis, and planning, including analysis of capacity needs for network infrastructures.
• May also design network and computer security measures.
• May research and recommend network and data communications hardware and software.
• Possesses and applies a comprehensive knowledge across key tasks and high impact assignments.
• Plans and leads major technology assignments.
• Evaluates performance results and recommends major changes affecting short-term project growth and success.
• Functions as a technical expert across multiple project assignments.
• May supervise others.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Requires a minimum of 9 years experience.
• Thorough knowledge of cloud and hybrid cloud-based technologies.
• Azure Administrator Associate.
• Demonstrated experience solving issues in hybrid cloud environments.
• A candidate holding a relevant Master’s degree may be granted 2 years’ experience credit for that extra education.
• A candidate holding a relevant PhD degree may be granted 4 years’ experience credit for that extra education.
• A maximum of 1 year of experience credit may be added for a candidate holding position specific required or desired technical certifications.

• Azure Solutions Architect Expert 

 

Halcyon Days Consulting, LLC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, pregnancy, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.