What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Cloud Architect position at Government Tactical Solutions, LLC?
Education/Experience Requirements: BS 12 , MS 10 , PhD 7 years relevant experience
Clearance Requirement: Active Secret clearance (TS/SCI preferred)
Certification Requirement: One of more Cloud Certifications – Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Administrator Associate, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional/Associate.
Description
The Senior Cloud Architect position 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 organization’s 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
GovTact and Insperity provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants in all company facilities without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, (or related medical conditions, including, but not limited to lactation), physical disability, mental and/or intellectual disability, age, military status or status as a Vietnam-era or special disabled veteran, marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition (including, but not limited to, cancer related or HIV/AIDS related), genetic information, or sexual orientation in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
This applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Clearance Requirement: Active Secret clearance (TS/SCI preferred)
Certification Requirement: One of more Cloud Certifications – Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Administrator Associate, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional/Associate.
Description
The Senior Cloud Architect position 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 organization’s 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 client’s operational requirements and infrastructure/security standards.
- Educate and influence stakeholders and engineering teams on effective cloud solutions and best practices.
- BS 12 , MS 10 , PhD 7 years relevant experience.
- 3 years of experience in Microsoft Azure Government.
- Active Secret clearance (TS/SCI preferred)
- One or more Cloud Certifications (must upload certification to Beeline upon submission): Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Administrator Associate, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional/Associate.
- Experience in architecture of flexible, scalable, and highly-available systems.
- 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.
GovTact and Insperity provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants in all company facilities without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, (or related medical conditions, including, but not limited to lactation), physical disability, mental and/or intellectual disability, age, military status or status as a Vietnam-era or special disabled veteran, marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition (including, but not limited to, cancer related or HIV/AIDS related), genetic information, or sexual orientation in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
This applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
