We are looking for a Full-time contractor or employee for a Cloud Solutions Architect role.
Level Description
4-7 years of experience in the field or in a related area. Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field. Relies on limited experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required. Works under limited supervision with considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.
Job Description
The cloud architect is responsible for the cloud computing initiatives within an organization and for directing the architectural aspects of a cloud brokering team across all aspects of IT and the business. Responsible for the planning and engineering of an organization's cloud computing infrastructure and applications. Implements and designs hardware and software. Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures of cloud technology, including Software as Service (SaaS), Platform as Service (PaaS), or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
Education
Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in computer science, computer information systems, engineering, or management information systems is preferred.
Certification
? Cloud Solutions Architect Certification
? Cloud Infrastructure Certifications
Skills(Required):
- Hands on experience in designing, building, and supporting cloud-native application solutions.
- Experience in combined roles of enterprise or technical architecture, cloud platform development, cloud strategy or IT strategy
- Experience in migration of applications from on-premise to cloud with enterprise architecture
- Experience in Application security architecture in Cloud/on-prem environment
- Experience in implementation of cloud-based solutions, leveraging AWS and demonstrate expertise in authentication and authorization using Okta, SailPoint and/or similar technologies
- Experience in security policies, implementing multi-factor authentication, enabling single-sign-on (SSO) capabilities and securing APIs using gateway platform for multiple channels
- Experience in design and implementation of Single Page Applications (SPA) using Angular, ReactJS and/or other similar frameworks/libraries
- Experience in developing cloud-native applications, adhering to best practices for cloud platforms
- Experience in designing microservices-based architectures. Decomposing monolithic applications into microservices
- Experience in developing microservices using Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, JPA and/or Hibernate
- Hands-on development experience implementing applications utilizing any J2EE Application Server, Authentication and Authorization, Caching strategies
- Experience with IaaC, automation and various CICD principles, ability to apply this experience to manage cloud based infrastructure.
- Experience with middleware process orchestration and integrations using IBM BPM/BAW and/or similar technologies
- Experience with batch processing, scheduling tools and file storage in cloud environment
- Experience in application integrations with external systems preferably with CMS, IRS and/or other third parties
- Experience in designing applications for scalability and optimizing performance in cloud environment.
- Experience in implementing robust logging using tools like Splunk and Dynatrace in cloud environment
- Hands-on programming experience in the following languages: Java, J2EE, HTML5, JavaScript, AJAX, CSS3, Bootstrap, SASS, UI frameworks/libraries (preferably Angular), Spring, Java Server Pages, Servlet, EJB, JSON, XML, ES5/ES6, NPM, Maven, Business Process
- Experience in implementing Client-facing applications with responsive design and development
- Experience with deployment and orchestration technologies (such as Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, OpenShift)
- Hands-on experience participating in all phases of Agile methodologies like Scrum or Kanban
- Experience with messaging platforms using IBM MQ and/or similar technologies in cloud environment
- Experience in Test-driven development and test creation using frameworks such as Katalon, Karma, Jasmine, Selenium
Skills(Preferred):
- Hands-on experience with IBM WebSphere Application Server 8 or later and JBOSS
- Prior state eligibility systems experience either State of Texas or other states including CMS experience
- Hands-on development experience for mobile and tablet platforms
- Experience with business rules engine using IBM ODM and/or similar technologies
- Knowledge of APIs design and implementation.
- Knowledge of Monitoring tools
- Knowledge of common DevOps tools GitLab, Jenkins, and Container