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Job Description

The Senior Cloud Architect position, a crucial role in supporting the government customer, is a hands-on cloud engineering position that primarily focuses on migrating workloads to the cloud. The role is pivotal in delivering infrastructure migrations to the cloud for highly sensitive information and maintaining ownership of technical and service elements related to cloud migration projects. The Senior Cloud Architect contributes to all levels of the architecture and maintains technical documentation while consulting team members on secure coding practices and developing a familiarity with new tools and best practices. Drives the roll-out of cloud management platforms, evaluates their performance, and implements enhancements.

Develops and enriches the product portfolio of cloud services and value-added services. Creates solution recommendations to include a Basis of Estimate for cloud services. Evaluate the cost/benefit of cloud vs. virtual private networks vs. dedicated hosting vs. in-house solutions and identify portions of the organizations IT platform/infrastructure with the highest potential return for cloud deployment. Performs operations and maintenance of secure managed cloud platform solutions. Implements and maintains automation to enhance operation, alerting, and auto-remediation of events. Develops, maintains, and deploys infrastructure as code using CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

Create security-driven Azure enterprise architectures, enterprise systems, and service-oriented architectures.

Establish and execute detailed cloud migration project plans.

Drive cloud consulting engagements by providing technical and business insights to cloud strategy engagements, technology and architecture, deployments, cloud migrations, and portfolio management.

Lead the design and implementation of PaaS/IaaS services, constructs, and deployment methods using containerization, database-as-a-service, storage, and infrastructure automation.

Provide expertise in architecture and design of services and systems in support of the various customer applications through the organization and its security.

Participate in technical project review meetings to ensure technical designs meet the clients operational requirements and infrastructure/security standards.

Educate and influence stakeholders and engineering teams on effective cloud solutions and best practices.

We are a company committed to creating inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment opportunities without regard to race, religion, sex, age, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship status, disability, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected] . The EEOC "Know Your Rights" Poster is available here (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .

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Skills and Requirements

-HS 16+, AS/AA 14+, BS/BA 12+, MS/MA 10+, or PhD 7+ years relevant experience

-3+ years of experience in Microsoft Azure Government.

-Active Secret clearance (TS/SCI preferred)

-Experience with containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, AKS, EKS).

-Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (TerraForm, ARM templates, CloudFormation templates).

-Experience using DevOps concepts and tools (GitLab, JIRA, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Ansible).

-Familiarity with DoD IT processes, regulations, and current IT cloud initiatives.

-One or more IAT Level II Certifications in good standing - CompTIA Security +; SSCP; CCNA Security; CySA+; GICSP; GSEC -One or more Cloud Certifications: CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional - Vendor is ISC2); Cloud+ (CompTIA Cloud plus - Vendor is CompTIA); GCLD (GIAC Cloud Security Essentials - Vendor is GIAC); GCSA (GIAC Cloud Security Automation - Vendor is GIAC)

-One or more Cloud Certifications in good standing - Azure Solutions Architect Expert; Azure Administrator Associate; AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional/Associate) null

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion,sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military oruniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, andordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].