Job Description :
Launch Your Career with Cook Systems
Ready to elevate your career? Cook Systems, a certified veteran owned IT consulting firm, has been transforming businesses and careers since 1990. Whether you're aiming to work with a Fortune 500 company or a small business, we've got you covered.
Our core values: integrity, investment, and innovation drive everything we do, ensuring you grow and succeed in a dynamic, supportive environment. We understand the importance of work life balance and personal growth. Our cutting edge IT consulting partners and FastTrack talent program are designed to help you excel.
Join our forward thinking team where excellence and creativity are valued every day. Check out what our associates have to say on Glassdoor. Ready to take your career to new heights? Cook Systems is where your journey to success begins!
Design and develop solutions to complex business problems, security threats, and keeping up with market in technology to enable speed of delivery of products and services. Develop, review, and communicate infrastructure policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures. Promote the IT Architecture process, outcomes and results.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
Provide strategic consultation to IT teams/leaders. Consult on application or infrastructure development projects to fit systems or infrastructure to the technical architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify the technical/solution architecture to accommodate project needs.
Keep IT?s technology and delivery managers aware of key issues, identifying and resolving potential problems and conflicts. Develop a communication plan for architecture at the infrastructure level.
Partner with Information Security, PMO, and Enterprise Architecture contributing to the research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry and market trends to assist in development and/or operational support activities. Consider potential application and impact
Lead the design and development of architecture using services provided by AWS. This position will directly contribute to the enterprise cloud architecture and promote a cloud-native strategy for applications and services across various platform types (On-premise Infrastructure, Cloud, and Software as a Service (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS). Help develop a strategy for on-prem to cloud data movement. Software and infrastructure delivery through automation including various gates for testing, quality assurance, compliance, and security (DevSecOps) for cloud, hyrbid, and on-premise workloads.
Enable and support Generative AI initiatives from a cloud infrastructure perspective, including the architecture of secure, scalable, and cost effective platforms for data ingestion, model training, inference, and lifecycle management. Partner with data, application, and security teams to ensure AI workloads align with enterprise architecture standards, cloud-native best practices, and governance requirements.
Determining enterprise distributed computing, cloud, Office365, information management, mobility, and unified communication policies, standards, and strategy.
Encourage the evolution of technology adoption to the business in the areas of self-service, end-user computing, and technology platforms (Low / No code, RPA, VDI, Software defined infrastructure, etc.)
Advocacy and support of the enterprise?s IT strategies. Knowledge - Provide strategic consultation to IT teams/leaders. Consult on application or infrastructure development projects to fit systems or infrastructure to the technical architecture, and identify when it is necessary to modify the technical/solution architecture to accommodate project needs.
Keep IT?s technology and delivery managers aware of key issues, identifying and resolving potential problems and conflicts. Develop a communication plan for architecture at the infrastructure level.
Performs job duties as assigned as part of ALSACs Business Continuity Management Program, including annual maintenance and testing of business continuity, disaster recovery and emergency response plans.
REQUIREMENTS
3-5 years experience
Strong background in software development, network engineering, or system administration and Enterprise IT.
Should have a solid understanding of cloud computing concepts, such as cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), cloud deployment models (public, private, hybrid, multi), and cloud security and governance.
Additionally, proficiency in one or more cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud and the ability to demonstrate expertise.
Should have good communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, able to work with various stakeholders and troubleshoot issues
Why Work with Us
Benefits
At Cook Systems, we don't just offer jobs we build futures. Our team is the heart of everything we do, and we're committed to supporting you with benefits that go beyond the basics. We want you to feel secure, valued, and empowered from the very beginning of your journey with us. When you join Cook Systems, here's what you can look forward to:
Your Health, Your Way: Choose from two comprehensive medical plans through Blue Cross Blue Shield, complete with dental and vision coverage. With access to one of the nation's largest networks, you'll get the care you need for yourself and your family wherever life takes you.
Peace of Mind, Every Step of the Way: Protect what matters most with life, critical illness, and accident insurance through Unum. Because your loved ones deserve security no matter what the future holds.
Flexibility for Life's Needs: Save money and plan ahead with a Flexible Spending Account and Daycare FSA through Navia, helping you manage healthcare and dependent care expenses on your terms.
Bridging the Gaps: Unexpected costs? No problem. Our Health Gap Insurance through Sunlife helps ensure you're covered when it counts.
Your Future Starts Now: Dream big with our 401(k) retirement plan through The Standard. After just six months, you will be eligible to participate, because your future deserves a strong foundation.
At Cook Systems, you're not just another employee you're family. Here, your ideas matter, your contributions shine, and your career will thrive. Together, we innovate, grow, and celebrate success every step of the way. Are you ready to be part of something bigger? Let's build the future together at Cook Systems.