Multi-Cloud Engineer - SME

The Multi-Cloud Engineer – SME serves as a senior technical authority and hands-on engineer for designing, building, integrating, automating, and sustaining capabilities across multiple cloud providers and on-premises environments. The role establishes technical patterns, resolves complex architecture and integration challenges, develops production-ready solutions, and advises government and program leadership on multi-cloud strategy.

• Serve as the senior technical subject-matter expert and hands-on engineer for multi-cloud capabilities across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and hybrid/on-premises environments.
• Design, build, configure, deploy, test, troubleshoot, and sustain cloud infrastructure, platform services, and integrations in production and non-production environments.
• Develop reference architectures, reusable infrastructure modules, engineering standards, and implementation guidance that enable portability, interoperability, resilience, and consistent security across cloud providers.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Bicep/ARM templates, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, or equivalent automation frameworks.
• Build and maintain continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for infrastructure, platform components, and cloud-native applications using approved DevSecOps tooling.
• Design and implement cross-cloud and hybrid connectivity, including virtual networks/VPCs, subnets, routing, firewalls/security groups, private connectivity, domain name system (DNS), load balancing, network segmentation, and connectivity to on-premises environments.
• Configure and troubleshoot identity, access management (IAM), privileged access, role-based access control (RBAC), identity federation, service identities, secrets management, and integration with enterprise identity providers.
• Deploy, configure, administer, upgrade, secure, and troubleshoot container platforms and Kubernetes environments, including cluster networking, ingress, storage, policy enforcement, workload deployments, and observability.
• Develop and maintain cloud-native application hosting patterns for virtual machines, containers, serverless services, managed databases, object storage, messaging, and API integration services.
• Implement automated configuration management, patching, vulnerability remediation, image hardening, baseline enforcement, and compliance reporting for cloud and hybrid infrastructure.
• Build and tune centralized logging, monitoring, alerting, tracing, dashboards, and service-level indicators across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Conduct root-cause analysis for complex infrastructure, networking, application-platform, identity, performance, and availability incidents; implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Lead hands-on engineering efforts for complex migrations, modernization initiatives, workload refactoring, data migration, and hybrid-cloud transformations.
• Evaluate cloud services and prototype solutions to recommend fit-for-purpose technologies based on mission requirements, performance, cost, security, and operational constraints.
• Analyze cloud performance, availability, capacity, resiliency, and cost; implement optimization measures, autoscaling, backup, disaster-recovery, and recovery-validation solutions.
• Produce and maintain build documentation, runbooks, scripts, configuration baselines, implementation plans, test procedures, architecture diagrams, and operational procedures.
• Perform peer reviews of infrastructure code, cloud configurations, technical designs, implementation artifacts, and operational documentation.
• Mentor cloud engineers through code reviews, technical demonstrations, troubleshooting support, and hands-on training.
• Brief senior government and program leadership on technical risks, tradeoffs, modernization options, implementation status, and recommended courses of action.

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline or equivalent relevant experience.
• 15+ years of progressively responsible infrastructure and cloud engineering experience.
• Expert-level, hands-on experience designing, deploying, configuring, and troubleshooting Azure and AWS services in enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated ability to create, modify, test, and maintain IaC, automation scripts, and deployment pipelines using Terraform, Bicep/ARM, CloudFormation, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, Bash, or equivalent tools.
• Deep hands-on experience with cloud networking, including Azure Virtual Network, AWS Virtual Private Cloud, routing, VPN/private connectivity, DNS, firewalls, load balancers, network security controls, and hybrid connectivity.
• Deep hands-on experience implementing IAM, federation, RBAC, workload identities, privileged access, secrets management, and cloud security controls in Azure and AWS.
• Demonstrated experience deploying, administering, securing, and troubleshooting Kubernetes and container ecosystems, such as Azure Kubernetes Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, OpenShift, or equivalent platforms.
• Experience operating CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines and integrating security scanning, policy checks, automated testing, artifact repositories, and deployment controls.
• Practical experience configuring cloud monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response workflows, backup/recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex technical initiatives while personally contributing to implementation, troubleshooting, migration, and sustainment activities.
• Strong understanding and applied experience with Zero Trust principles, cloud security architecture, resilience engineering, disaster recovery, and regulated-environment requirements.
• Ability to produce clear technical documentation, automate repeatable operational tasks, mentor engineers, and communicate complex technical issues to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Ability to operate independently as a senior technical authority while collaborating across cybersecurity, networking, software, data, infrastructure, and mission teams.
• Must reside within a 75-mile radius of Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville AL or be willing to relocate prior to starting date.

• Must have (or be able to have before starting):

  • CompTIA Security+ CE, or other approved 8570 IAT Level II certification.
  • Cloud certification such as: Microsoft AZ900 (Azure Fundamentals), Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Security Engineer Associate, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Developer, CCSP, GCSA or other equivalent Cloud certifications.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S. Government Security Clearance. An active clearance will be required to start. 

• Experience in DoW/DoD mission environments.
• Experience with Azure Government, AWS GovCloud, IL5/IL6, or comparable regulated environments.
• Cloud certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect/Engineer or Microsoft Azure Administrator/Engineer.
• Advanced Azure and AWS certifications; Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS), HashiCorp Terraform certification; or equivalent demonstrated expertise.
• Experience with Git-based engineering workflows, code review, artifact repositories, container registries, and automated release processes.
• Experience with FinOps practices, cloud cost allocation/tagging, budget monitoring, rightsizing, reserved-capacity strategies, and cloud economics analysis.
• Experience with platform engineering, internal developer platforms, service catalogs, policy-as-code, GitOps, and large-scale data-center modernization.
• Experience scripting and automating administrative tasks with Python, PowerShell, Bash, Go, or similar languages.
• Preferred experience with SPECTRO Cloud, including deployment, configuration, administration, and integration of SPECTRO Cloud capabilities within hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Preferred experience architecting, deploying, and integrating SPECTRO Cloud as part of secure hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including platform orchestration, workload management, automation, and integration with government mission systems.

Physical Demands

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must be able to lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• Regular i3 hours are 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday, however, additional hours may be required on occasion. Regular and punctual attendance is required.

i3 is a technically diverse, 100% team member owned business, headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama specializing in missile and aviation systems engineering and logistic services, electronic warfare and electromagnetic effects analysis, UAS system integration and flight operations, full lifecycle C5ISR engineering services, cybersecurity and IT/IA innovative solutions and virtual training, simulation & serious game development and implementation. We have established a broad offering of products and capabilities collectively providing decades of experience supporting the full complement of DoD military services, Missile Defense Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and a variety of other Government organizations and private industry customers.

Perks of being a team member owner include:

• Long-term financial security
• Higher job satisfaction
• Greater job security
• Personal and professional growth
• Great company culture

Other outstanding benefits:

• Excellent insurance coverage
• 401(k) match
• Generous PTO
• Health and wellness incentives
• Tuition and certification reimbursement
• Countless opportunities to give back to the community through i3 Cares

We work hard. We compete hard. We play hard. Apply now to join us!