NCDIT - Cloud Engineer- Mid Level

Typical Experience: 36-60 months

***This is a hybrid position where the candidate will be expected on site once a week.

This role serves as the technical and strategic lead for enterprise data integration across statewide programs and agencies. The Cloud Engineer designs, implements, and modernizes the enterprise landing zone, cloud ingestion patterns, and secure data pipelines, re engineering legacy feeds such as SFTP, Azure Blob, and batch pathways into scalable, automated, cloud native services aligned with state security policies and compliance requirements. The position collaborates with architects, security teams, vendors, and agency partners to ensure reliable, secure, standardized pipelines from ingestion through transformation and delivery, and it drives operational support across the full lifecycle.

Beyond integration, the role builds and maintains cloud based data warehouse capabilities, including medallion structures (Bronze, Silver, Gold), to enable governed, analytics ready transformations. It defines storage and partitioning conventions for performance and traceability, promotes governance alignment and privacy controls across frameworks such as HIPAA, CJIS, and NIST, and serves as the division s ETL subject matter expert on metadata, lineage, and modeling. The engineer also advances innovation by evaluating emerging tools and AI assisted development to improve reliability, efficiency, and readiness for future capabilities.

The Enterprise Data Office (EDO), a division within the North Carolina Department of Information Technology (DIT), is responsible for delivering enterprise data and analytics capabilities that support statewide programs, agencies, and strategic initiatives. Through these capabilities, the EDO enables improved decision making, operational efficiency, and better outcomes for citizens across North Carolina.

Required/Desired Skills

Skill Required /Desired Amount of Experience
Cloud data engineering and integration, including modern lakehouse and medallion architectures	Required	5	Years
ETL and pipeline development with robust orchestration, error handling, validation, and lineage	Required	5	Years
Data quality, metadata management, and governance practices to ensure accuracy and compliance	Required	3	Years
Security and privacy alignment across frameworks such as HIPAA, CJIS, and NIST, plus DevSecOps awareness	Required	3	Years
Networking and cloud platform fundamentals, identity and access management, and distributed compute and storage in Azure, AWS, or SAS Viya	Required	3	Years

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Absences greater than two weeks MUST be approved by CAI management in advance, and contact information must be provided to CAI so that the resource can be reached during his or her absence. The Client has the right to dismiss the resource if he or she does not return to work by the agreed upon date. Do you agree to this requirement?

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This is a hybrid position where the candidate will be expected to be onsite at least one day a week. Do you agree to this requirement?

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