About this role
Job Title: Cloud Specialist
Job Code: MS 165392
Client: State of Mississippi – Mississippi Department of Archives & History (MDAH)
Location: Jackson, MS – 100% Onsite
Duration: At least 1 year, with likely extension
Rate: Based on Experience
Work Hours: Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM CT (40 hours/week)
Work Location: 3771 Eastwood Dr, Jackson, MS 39211
Closing Date: 09/11/2026 at 2:00 PM
Client: State of Mississippi – Mississippi Department of Archives & History (MDAH)
Location: Jackson, MS – 100% Onsite
Duration: At least 1 year, with likely extension
Rate: Based on Experience
Work Hours: Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM CT (40 hours/week)
Work Location: 3771 Eastwood Dr, Jackson, MS 39211
Closing Date: 09/11/2026 at 2:00 PM
Position Overview
The State of Mississippi is seeking a Cloud Specialist – Cloud Migration to develop, modify, and maintain scalable cloud architectures supporting IaaS and PaaS environments. The role will focus on migrating on-premises applications, workloads, and databases to public cloud platforms while ensuring security, compliance, data protection, performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and modify scalable cloud architecture for IaaS and PaaS platforms.
- Migrate existing on-premises applications, workloads, and databases to public cloud environments.
- Support AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud platforms.
- Ensure cloud environments meet security, compliance, data protection, and privacy requirements.
- Monitor cloud infrastructure performance and proactively troubleshoot issues.
- Manage and optimize cloud environments for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
- Develop automation using Python, Bash, and/or PowerShell.
- Work with cloud networking, VPCs, firewalls, and infrastructure management.
- Manage Windows Servers, Active Directory, and Linux environments.
- Design controls and processes using available audit tools.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams on cloud migration and infrastructure initiatives.
- Maintain current knowledge of cloud technologies and products.
Required Skills
- 5+ years Microsoft Windows Server experience.
- 7+ years Azure and/or AWS experience.
- 3+ years Microsoft 365 experience.
- 3+ years PowerShell experience.
- 5+ years networking experience.
- Experience with cloud migration and infrastructure management.
- Experience with cloud security, data protection, and compliance.
- Experience with virtual machines, VPCs, and firewalls.
- Strong automation and scripting capabilities.
Preferred Skills
- 5+ years Linux administration.
- 3+ years VMware vSphere.
- 3+ years Python.
- 3+ years Bash scripting.
- 5+ years cloud storage technologies.
- Prior government or regulated-industry experience.
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