Senior Cloud Operations Engineer (Azure) — NASA Mission Enabling Services

About this role

MRI Technologies has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Cloud Operations Engineer on the Mission Enabling Services Contract (MESC) at NASA. In this role, you will build and operate Azure cloud infrastructure from the ground up-establishing the landing zones, governance controls, identity integration, and compliance foundations that will carry NASA's mission workloads for years to come.

You will work alongside cloud architects, security engineers, and NASA stakeholders, leading the Azure expansion of a production platform that already operates at enterprise scale on GCP. You are the subject-matter expert on Azure infrastructure design and federal compliance requirements-translating deep technical knowledge into a government-grade environment that meets NIST 800-171, CMMC 2.0, and NASA security standards. This is a build role, not a maintenance role. The platform is early-stage, and your decisions now will define how it operates across the life of the program.

A typical day might begin with reviewing Terraform changes for a new Azure subscription configuration or coordinating with the security team on a Defender for Cloud alert. By midday you could be designing a new landing zone architecture, implementing Azure Policy assignments across management groups, or troubleshooting a network connectivity issue between the Azure environment and the existing GCP platform. In the afternoon, you might be building CI/CD pipeline stages for infrastructure provisioning, updating cost management tagging standards, or drafting runbook documentation for the operations team. The work is hands-on, high-trust, and connected to infrastructure that supports NASA mission success.

What We Are Looking For

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, IT, or equivalent
• 6 or more years of relevant cloud engineering experience
• Deep experience designing and operating Azure cloud environments at an enterprise or government scale
• Terraform (HCL) for Azure infrastructur...