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Cloud Engineer- Mid Level

Novalink Solutions

  • Raleigh, North Carolina
  • 9 days ago

    Highlights

    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 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.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationRaleigh, North Carolina
    IndustryStaffing/Employment Agencies
    Company Size20 to 49 employees
    Year Founded2004
    Websitehttp://www.novalink-solutions.com/

    Description

    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.

    Requirements

    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



    About Company

    Novalink, founded in 2003 , is a leading consulting and staffing company serving clients in public and private sectors in Information Technology, Telecommunications (IT/Telecom), Technical Networks, Finance, and Administration. With government agencies as our primary clientele, our team has a proven track record of success in providing temporary personnel solutions and managing government deliverables-based projects over the past 20 years.

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