Senior Cloud Architect

Description

The company is a technology firm within a global parent, serving the US federal government with more than 13,000 people across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health clients.

This senior cloud architect role supports a national security mission. You will design cloud and hybrid solutions, support application needs for customers, and recommend options based on business analysis and technical judgment.

Responsibilities

• Lead large technical initiatives, working closely with development teams and project managers
• Provide systems engineering, orchestration, and administration across many multi-cloud environments
• Help delivery teams tune cloud operations and resource use, and carry out capacity analysis and planning
• Work day to day using Agile Scrum frameworks and methods
• Estimate the complexity and effort of technical implementation details for the team
• Communicate with customers running large programs, including multiple vendors, government staff, and military personnel, using whatever communication and collaboration methods the mission needs
• Guide junior team members on correct implementation, troubleshooting, and upkeep of cloud systems
• Handle workload management, patch management, Active Directory management, onboarding, and other troubleshooting as needed
• Give management and internal customers detailed analysis and feedback on escalated tickets

Requirements

• 8 years of experience engineering and administering IT systems hosted on AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP
• 8 years of experience with Linux or Windows operating systems
• 5 years of technical leadership leading integrated project teams
• IAT Level III or IASAE II certification, such as CISSP, CISM, CASP+, CISA, or CCNP Security
• Experience with orchestration tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Terraform
• The ideal candidate can design a cloud architecture using a range of solutions for compute, storage, security, networking, and automation
• The ideal candidate has deep expertise in designing, deploying, and managing AWS cloud environments
• The ideal candidate understands in depth how compute resources are structured and distributed across providers such as AWS, Azure, OCI, and Google
• The ideal candidate can analyze and rank usage so funds and resources go to the required workloads most efficiently
• The ideal candidate keeps the customer at the center and cares about delivering customer value
• The ideal candidate communicates professionally and explains technical ideas simply to semi-technical customers
• The ideal candidate balances several projects and sets priorities to meet customer needs
• The ideal candidate brings new technical ideas to customer problems
• Bonus points: a bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field
• Bonus points: a professional-level certification in AWS or Azure
• Bonus points: hands-on experience deploying infrastructure as code in a cloud environment
• Bonus points: prior cloud architecture experience
• Bonus points: commercial or private git experience
• Bonus points: DevOps experience, including configuration management with Ansible (preferred), Chef, or Puppet, application deployment, and security
• Bonus points: experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• Bonus points: a general understanding of networking principles

Conditions

The posting has a security clearance heading but gives no clearance requirement

Pay range applies in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia, as required by local law

Base pay for this role in those locations is $124,000 - $246,400 USD

Actual pay depends on office location, role, skill set, and experience level

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis with no fixed deadline

The company is an equal opportunity employer that works to make all people feel respected and included

Benefits

• A wide range of benefits is offered, with details available on request
• Hands-on experience, certifications, and industry training support your growth