Cloud Engineer

This is a hybrid position

This role serves as the technical and strategic lead for enterprise data integration across statewide programs and client. 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 client 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 client, is responsible for delivering enterprise data and analytics capabilities that support statewide programs, client, and strategic initiatives. Through these capabilities, the EDO enables improved decision-making, operational efficiency, and better outcomes for citizens across NC.

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

Typical Experience : 36-60 months

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

VIVA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants have an equal opportunity for placement, and all employees have an equal opportunity to develop on the job. This means that VIVA will not discriminate against any employee or qualified applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status