Cloud Engineer – Subject Matter Expert (SME)

 
                                                                               
We are a growing information technology company that offers its employees a culture of success, the chance to work on revolutionary federal IT infrastructure, and the opportunity to grow alongside cutting-edge technology that is reshaping the industry. We are seeking forward thinking candidates that have strong experience in operational support and can help take to the next level in a pro-active stance.
 
Chameleon Integrated Services has expertise in operations management, quality systems, data operations and cybersecurity.  We secure some of the most sensitive data for the Department of Defense and for other U. S. federal government agencies.  We are known for the great care we take with clients and employees, and we believe in promoting from within.
 
 
We offer a Full Benefits package including:

• Competitive Employee Health Insurance options including dental
• 100% company paid vision plan
• 401K plan with generous company match and no vesting period
• 100% company paid Life insurance
• 100% company paid long and short-term disability insurance
• Training allowance
• PTO and more

Cloud Engineer – Subject Matter Expert (SME)
Position Overview

• Work Location: 100% Remote – Ability to travel to Fort Lee, Virginia, at least three times annually and report onsite more frequently if directed.

• Security Clearance: Active U.S. DoD Secret Required (Time of Application)
• Required Core Experience: 12+ Years of Documented Cloud Engineering

Objective Summary
We are seeking an elite, pioneering Cloud Engineer–SME to architect, deploy, and maintain advanced enterprise data, analytics, and pipeline infrastructures within tightly secured federal and defense parameters. The ideal candidate must possess an extensive, unbroken professional chronology demonstrating 12+ years of explicit cloud engineering work starting no later than August 2014. A significant majority of this tenure must reflect high-level architecture inside Microsoft Azure ecosystems, specifically supporting specialized Azure Government, cArmy, and Impact Level 5/6 (IL5/IL6) environments.
This expert will directly drive cloud-native ingestion, enterprise data virtualization, cross-domain connection mechanisms, and robust automated landing zones to ingest mission-critical Army data assets cleanly.
Mandatory Compliance Metrics
Candidates must unequivocally satisfy these chronological and technical constraints to ensure a successful Government QVF determination:

• Chronological Proof Gate: Resume must explicitly reflect 12+ continuous years of specialized cloud engineering roles with clear dates validating work starting in August 2014 or earlier.
• Cloud Domain Focus: Extensive, hands-on production engineering within Azure Government, cArmy, or highly restricted federal enclaves under DoD IL5/IL6 compliance frameworks.

Principal Responsibilities

• Architecture & Landing Zones: Design, configure, and maintain production-grade cloud landing zones, advanced enterprise network topographies, and zero-trust identity architectures within restricted DoD cloud nodes.
• Data Pipeline Construction: Build, test, and maintain resilient enterprise ETL/ELT pipelines for complex synchronization, data ingestion, and multi-source transformation frameworks using Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Automate the entire infrastructure lifecycle using cloud-native declarative paradigms (Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates) to enforce strict configuration consistency and eliminate manual drifts.
• Secrets & Security Enforcement: Implement least-privilege cloud governance models using Azure Key Vault to handle complex encryption keys, dynamic application connections, API access tokens, and systemic cryptographic profiles.
• API Management & Services: Standardize system integration layers by designing, routing, and securing REST APIs and backend microservices via Azure API Management environments.
• Monitoring & Observability: Engineer end-to-end audit readiness pipelines, custom metric dashboards, proactive system alerting arrays, and security logging via cloud-native monitoring systems.

Required Technical Skill Matrix
Core Data & Architecture Capabilities

• Expert-level Azure Architecture design patterns (Hub-Spoke models, ExpressRoute, Secure Cloud Computing Architecture).
• Production execution of Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, and structured Data Lake environments.
• Advanced deployment pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, or comparable automated CI/CD toolsets.

Governance, Clearance & Government Infrastructure

• Direct experience operating inside Azure Government, cArmy, or federal GCC High spaces.
• Comprehensive mastery of DoD/Army Architecture Standards and DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) and 6 (IL6) controls.

Preferred Domain Expertise (High-Priority Advantage)

• Familiarity building or integrating cloud layers for GCSS-Army, NLAC, or Army G4 logistics modules.
• Prior architecture exposure to Strategic Enterprise Analytics (SEA) or comparable enterprise military data-lake structures.
• Deep functional understanding of defense analytics pipelines, military logistics platforms, or supply-chain telemetry data sets.

“We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status”

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