Senior Azure Cloud Engineer

A key DMI objective is to "expand foundational infrastructure to provide scalable, flexible services for timely and appropriate access to actionable data in the public health ecosystem." Currently, public health programs operating across CDC have myriad investments in divergent and overlapping systems to collect, process, and analyze data to support public health decision making and administrative functions. Systems are of varying age, complexity, and quality and this creates a burden for public health partners to provide and use data, for programs to use their data, and for CDC to secure shared data with its partners and deidentified data with the public.

EDAV helps alleviate this problem by designing, developing, and operating shared, enterprise data services to help programs modernize and integrate these services with their existing and planned systems. However, EDAV needs to expand the quantity and quality of these services and assist programs to integrate their systems with EDAV to create new public health data products using the shared EDAV platform. Data products include data collections, storage, reports, dashboards, metadata collection, analytics (including artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML)), public use data, indicators, measures, and decision-making systems.

CDC’s Center for Forecasting Outbreaks and Analytics (CFA) is tasked with collaborating with internal and external partners to track public health event disease outbreaks and forecast their directions. To do this, CFA needs to extend EDAV’s capabilities to cloud spaces where it can collaborate with CDC and non-CDC groups to share data, develop machine learning models, exchange models and algorithms, and jointly author analytics and visualization products. Absent this, CFA cannot perform its mission.

The DMAC CFA TDL is looking for a highly skilled Senior Azure Cloud Engineer to join our team. This role requires expertise in Identity and Access Management, Azure Governance, and Security. The ideal candidate will also have experience with data pipelines and a strong foundation in Infrastructure as Code. Familiarity with Azure Batch compute, programming in Python or R are essential for success in this position.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Overseeing Identity and Access Management practices, ensuring proper role assignments and access controls in Azure.
• Developing and enforcing Azure Governance policies to maintain compliance and optimize resource utilization.
• Utilizing Azure Batch compute to orchestrate and scale compute tasks for large datasets and processing workflows.
• Write efficient, reusable, and maintainable code in Python or R to support automation and data processing tasks.
• Monitor and optimize cloud resources for cost and performance.
• Maintain documentation of architecture, configurations, and processes to ensure knowledge sharing and continuity.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree required
• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, with a focus on Azure technologies
• 4+ years of git and version control experience in a fast-paced team setting
• Knowledge of Azure Identity and Access Management, Governance, and Security best practices
• 3+ years of Bash and unix-scripting
• Experience using Terraform or ARM templates
• Experience with Azure Batch compute and related services
• Experience with data pipeline architecture and management
• Experience with Linux environments and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
• Experience with Agile based projects
• Experience with consulting federal clients on requirements gathering, planning, execution, testing, and quality assurance
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices with experience in PowerShell / CLI
• Proficient in Python or R for scripting and automation tasks and familiarity with data manipulation libraries
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with a focus on performance and optimization

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience with Nextflow pipelines is highly desirable
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices and data governance frameworks
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps and Github Actions and knowledge of best practices for cloud deployment

• This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required by this position.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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