Overview
This role will function as a Principal Engineer for the Cloud Infrastructure Team. Candidates filling the role will be responsible for the design, development, and deployment of Azure-based solutions. The candidate will combine strong leadership skills with hands-on experience in architecting and implementing infrastructure automation to provision, maintain, secure, and optimize solutions based on the Azure Platform. The candidate will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure cloud infrastructure meets business objectives, drive best practices, and support business applications. The role requires deep and broad engineering experience with Microsoft Azure technologies; specifically, deep technical expertise in Azure Infrastructure as Code modules (Bicep); Azure DevOps Repos and Pipelines; Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS); Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS); and supporting technologies.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership in architecture discipline & development on Azure Platform.
- Ensure the security and integrity of system and product solutions.
- Perform engineering tasks/assignments in support of business needs.
- Lead, guide, and mentor junior staff.
- Apply engineering principles to the design and enhancement of systems.
- Anticipate and adjust for potential impact of upcoming changes.
- Document new system components, or modifications to existing components.
- Full life-cycle project management.
- Perform research, procurement, deployment, and configuration of systems.
- Present clear, organized & concise information to audiences to enable business decisions.
- Provide input and make budgetary recommendations.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Participate in On-call Rotation (as required) for emergency technical support and planned maintenance activities.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Security, or related field, or the equivalent education, training, and experience.
- Extensive hands-on experience supporting the operations, maintenance, and administration of Azure Platform infrastructure.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including negotiations, facilitation, and consensus-building skills, ability to influence and persuade without direct control.
- Technical lead for a team of Senior/Junior Cloud Engineers to design, develop, and deliver IT solutions (Azure).
- Advanced expertise in Infrastructure as Code principles (IaC) using Bicep/Terraform, and engineering IaC deployments via Azure DevOps including modules, Pipelines, and Repos.
- Advanced experience in scripting with Windows PowerShell/Terraform/Bicep to automate, migrate, patch, and upgrade cloud infrastructure.
- Expertise in engineering Azure Platform as a Service (Azure PaaS) including but not limited to:
- Storage Accounts, Azure Recovery Services Vaults, Functions, Logic Apps, Web Apps, Azure SQL, Azure Active Directory, Application Insights, Virtual Networks, Application Gateway, Load Balancers, Azure Machine Configuration (Guest Configuration), OMS, State Configuration (Azure DSC).
- Compute services - Design, implementation, documentation, and support of infrastructure, virtual machines, and serverless compute services, platform, storage, backup, configuration management, and patching.
- Understanding of cloud security best practices and compliance standards.
- Experience working with cloud deployments (Scaling, resiliency, load balancing) and solid understanding of service monitoring, KPI, SLA, and disaster recovery.
- Knowledge of and adherence to change control standards and procedures, problem resolution, and troubleshooting techniques.
- Develop engineering plans which improve the resiliency of infrastructure services to meet the SLA (e.g. 99.99) of applications hosted on the cloud.
Desired Qualifications
- Prior experience working in a financial organization is a plus.
- AZ-305 - Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional.
Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Location: 820 Follin Lane, Vienna, VA 22180 | 5510 Heritage Oaks Dr. Pensacola, FL 32526 | 141 Security Dr. Winchester, VA 22602
About Us
Navy Federal provides much more than a job. We provide a meaningful career experience, including a culture that is energized, engaged, and committed; and fierce appreciation for our teams, who are rewarded with highly competitive pay and generous benefits and perks.
Equal Employment Opportunity: Navy Federal values, celebrates, and enacts diversity in the workplace. Navy Federal takes affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals with disabilities, disabled veterans, Armed Forces service medal veterans, recently separated veterans, and other protected veterans. EOE/AA/M/F/Veteran/Disability
Hybrid Workplace: Navy Federal Credit Union is a hybrid workplace, and details will be discussed during your interview process.
Disclaimers: Navy Federal reserves the right to fill this role at a higher/lower grade level based on business need. An assessment may be required to compete for this position. Job postings are subject to close early or extend out longer than the anticipated closing date at the hiring team's discretion based on qualified applicant volume.
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