Cloud Services Architect

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Position: Cloud Services Architect

Location: Washington, DC

Education:  BS degree in Computer Science. Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience

Clearance:  Top Secret DoD Clearance Required. May consider highly qualified DoD Secret Clearance holders with the ability to obtain a Top Secret.

Duties and Responsibilities: As a Cloud Services Architect you will play a key role in maintaining and enhancing an enterprise cloud environment servicing more than 10,000 Users. Assist in the engineering, development and administration of a federal enterprise cloud system.

Essential Functions:

• Identify hardware, software, and external service cost estimates and resource requirements.
• Inform stakeholders of the strategy for deployment of new implementations, as well as the maintenance and upgrades of existing equipment.
• Ensure compliance with incident, problem, and change management procedures and execute ticket-based requests with little or no additional help.
• Participate and manage technical project review meetings to ensure technical designs meet the client’s operational requirements and infrastructure/security standards.
• Develop a technology roadmap based on established client priorities to meet strategic engineering goals, such as Enterprise Architecture, Quality Assurance, Performance, Operations and Support.
• Improve infrastructure operations through better use of monitoring, cloud coding, and scripting best practices,
• Deliver fully functioning network services with secure access points between the client environment and the commercial service provider environment.
• Understand software development and Agile best practices as it relates to work coordination, acceptance criteria, and deployment management.
• Lead the development of the technical artifacts, such as an Implementation Plan, System Administration Guide, Operational Turnover Plan, System Security Plan, etc.
• Automate infrastructure migration to cloud environments and identify on-premise technologies and their cloud counterparts.
• Support security engineering efforts, including perimeter security, encryption, micro-segmentation, and firewall configuration.
• Perform network engineering relating to security, segmentation, connectivity, and protocols.
• Focus on results and be delivery oriented, with a keen interest on quality and the ability to meet deadlines.
• Certifications (Desired): Google – Associate Cloud Engineer; AWS – Solutions Architect – Associate; Azure – MCSA: Cloud Platform (Infrastructure Focus); VMware – VCP Data Center Virtualization.

Qualifications:

• At least 3 years of technology consulting or other relevant industry experience.
• Prior professional experience in IT Strategy, IT Business Management, Cloud & Infrastructure, or Systems Engineering.
• Experience working independently with minimal supervision and guidance.
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with experience exercising mature judgment.
• Proven experience effectively prioritizing workload to meet deadlines and work objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to write clearly, succinctly, and in a manner that appeals to a wide audience.
• Proficiency in word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation creation tools, as well as Internet research tools.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain required clearance for this role.
• Migration Strategy: Advisory on Migration Disposition/Type (As-Is, Replatform to IaaS, Refactor to PaaS/Cloud , etc.)
• Compute: Infrastructure, Platform Sizing, Consolidation, Tiered and Virtualized Storage, Automated Provisioning, Rationalization, Infrastructure Cost Reduction, Thin Provisioning.
• Experience with Operating systems and Software: Upgrade Planning and Implementation, Clustering and Grid Computing, Linux-on-Mainframe.
• Experience with Open Source: Sizing and Performance Analyses, Selection and Implementation, Platform Design and Selection.
• Experience with Virtualization: Virtualization Server, Storage, Desktop, Network; Reducing Sprawl.
• Experience with Infrastructure-Based Processes: Monitoring, Capacity Planning, Facilities Management, Performance Tuning, Asset Management, Disaster Recovery, Data Center support.

Certifications and Experience:

• Experience with Servers, Infrastructure, Platform Sizing, Infrastructure Cost Reduction.
• Possess one of the following certifications for the design/development of cloud platforms and/or applications using a cloud platform:
• Pivotal Cloud Foundry – Administrator or Developer
• Possess any additional certifications (one or more) for the design/development of distributed solutions on a leading infrastructure platform such as:
• IBM Certified Solution Architect – Cloud Computing Infrastructure v3
• Google Cloud Platform Qualified Developer o Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect
• VMWare Certifications (Data Center Virtualization, Cloud Management and Automation, Network Virtualization)
• Red Hat Certified Architect
• AWS certifications
• Experience with legacy system engineering assessments, discovering the build and details surrounding the system in order to re-build it in a new hosted environment.
• The engineer will then work with the client to create a Migration Plan, a detailed technical document illustrating the future state architecture of the system in its new environment, supporting the functionality of the system and meeting all required specifications for security, performance, and otherwise as indicated by the client.