Cloud Architect

As a Cloud Architect, you will work within our growing DevSecOps practice delivering features to support cloud migration, cloud optimization and cloud deployment. We are looking for candidates with 8-10 years of experience with cloud platform services and DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code and confirmation management automation. Responsibilities include:  

• Identify and implement the most optimal cloud-based solutions for the customer  
• Design cloud environments and demonstrate technical cloud architectural knowledge, playing a vital role in the design of production, staging, QA, and development of cloud infrastructures running in 24×7 environments  
• Implement and oversee cloud strategies include migrations and optimization  
• Establishing development tools and infrastructure for automation  
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers  
• Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes  
• Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results  
• Perform root cause analysis on complex business processes and technical components 
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats  
• Identifying technical problems, performing root cause analysis, and developing software updates and ‘fixes’  
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended  
• Support enterprise Cloud applications or infrastructure through infrastructure as code including any activities around automated server or network configurations, large-scale software deployments, and monitoring and testing, such as CI/CD   
• Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations   
• Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize and modernize software systems  
• Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members  
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided  
• Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other team members

Required:  

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance  
• BS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a non-IT field and 2 years related IT experience  
• 10+ Years of total experience
• 8 Years of Experience architecting, designing,