Remote - Cloud Solution Architect

Job Title: Cloud Solution Architect

Sharing the job details. Must have 12 years’ experience.

Category:  Infrastructure Maintenance Services

The Cloud Solutions Architect plays a key role to build high-quality and innovative cloud-based hosting solutions that complies with best practice DevSecOps. Design or update architectural patterns for AWS and Azure that are in compliance with enterprise security standards as well as government compliance

• Work as a member of cross-functional teams to design scalable, highly available, secure application solutions that leverage cloud services
• Develop and document detailed technical designs for integration and implementation of new cloud applications and systems
• Continuously manage, monitor, and update architecture models as business needs evolve and additional cloud services become available
• Optimize cost of cloud solutions by identifying waste and automating cloud cost management
• Plan for system and application migration(s) to the cloud, adhering to the client’s technical and business requirements
• Integrate with non-cloud technologies and third-party vendor products/services (SAAS)
• Assess emerging technologies, stay abreast of industry trends, and give advice on investments prices versus performance
• Experience with highly-available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments

Qualifications:

• 10+ years relevant work experience applicable experience developing technical solutions for large complex IT systems
• Hands-on experience with any of the following DevOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Git, Jenkins or Kubernetes) with an “Automation First” attitude
• A familiarity with a design modeling tool such as EASparx or Archimate
• Windows Server (n-1) and Redhat (n-1), including authentication and access control, image management, patching, hardening & group policy, clustering, IIS/Apache, and other core services
• Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) technologies, including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, CIFS, NFS, and both discrete and software defined storage solutions on premise and in the cloud
• Backup and Recovery, including traditional streaming, virtualization, and cloud based solutions
• Cloud Migration / Hybrid Cloud automation technologies
• Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, leveraging Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings in both Commercial & GovCloud implementations
• Agile/SAFe software development methodologies and tools
• Various database technologies (SQLServer, MYSQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle) and data interchange formats (XML, JSON).