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

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.