Required Skills

Senior Cloud Architect

Work Authorization

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  • EAD (OPT/CPT/GC/H4)

  • H1B Work Permit

Preferred Employment

  • Corp-Corp

  • W2-Permanent

  • W2-Contract

  • Contract to Hire

Employment Type

  • Consulting/Contract

education qualification

  • UG :- - Not Required

  • PG :- - Not Required

Other Information

  • No of position :- ( 1 )

  • Post :- 5th Dec 2023

JOB DETAIL

Cloud Delivery Engineer / Architect 10 – 15 years

Solid knowledge of concepts of designing and developing dynamic Cloud solutions and moving parts involved in continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). 10 – 15 years

Experience with Tooling and Automation to enable seamless automation of infrastructure provisioning and configuration. 10 – 15 years

Pipeline Design and Architecture to improve development flow and delivery. 10 – 15 years

Solid understanding and skill with DevOps, web services and application programming interfaces (APIs). 10 – 15 years

Experience with Servers, Infrastructure, Platform Sizing, Infrastructure Cost Reduction 10 – 15 years

Experience with multi-cloud governmental or large corporate environments 2 – 3 years

Create, maintain, and troubleshooting skills for cloud infrastructure

Highly Desirable

Multi-Cloud security and compliance experience Highly Desirable

 

Certification(s):

Google – Professional Cloud Architect

AWS – Solution Architect – Professional

Azure – MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Highly Desirable

 

Core Competencies

• Design and deliver dynamically scalable, available, fault-tolerant, reliable, and secure cloud solutions on Azure, AWS, GCP.

• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

• Chaos engineering experience.

• Strong understanding of virtual networks and general network management functions.

• Solid knowledge of concepts of designing and developing dynamic cloud solutions.

• Solid knowledge of concepts and moving parts involved in continuous integration and delivery.

• Expert guidance to development teams regarding infrastructure.

• Interpret and provide solutions on complex technologies/architectures.

• Cloud Formation / automation / Ansible / PowerShell / DSC / Comparable Linux scripting.

• Experience equivalent to site reliability engineering, DevOps, and/or DevSecOps

• Other skills: Containerization, Linux, Database skills, security and recovery, web services and applications programming interfaces (APIs)

 

Core Tasks

• Provide strategic and support representing Design Services and the State of Michigan Cloud Strategy as a Subject Matter Expert.

• Identify and prioritize critical business functions in collaboration with organizational stakeholders.

• Build and maintain relationships across organizational teams.

• Consult with vendor product specialists/sales, independent research organizations, on-site support engineers and fellow architects and administrators on best-fit technologies to ensure compliance to department policies & standards and technology roadmap.

• Coordinate with Enterprise Architecture team for technology validation or suggestions for alternative solutions. If necessary, initiate Solution Assessments, Infrastructure Service.

• Infrastructure provisioning and configuration.

• Document and Knowledge transfer; document pipeline architecture, design decisions, and setup instructions for future reference and onboarding of new team members.

• Conduct knowledge transfer sessions and provide training to relevant stakeholders to ensure a smooth transition and adoption of the infrastructure deployment pipeline.

• Requests, and any applicable required documentation to implement new technology.

• Advocate the use of emerging cyber security best practices, technologies, developing standards and procedures, promoting the usage of automated tools, developing strategies, and aligning practices with enterprise strategic initiatives.

• Lead the development of technical artifacts including Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), Detailed Technical Design, Security Architecture Plan, Services Description Document, etc.

• Produce architectural framework documents (i.e., white papers, guidance documents, best practices, technical reports, etc.).

• Leverage broad-based understanding of technology areas and end-to-end knowledge of current installations to craft architectural solutions or standards that can be applied across the enterprise.

• Define and build hypothesis around steady state behavior.

• Run experiments around real world events to define potential impact or estimate frequency.

• Tooling and Automation: Evaluate and select appropriate tools and technologies to support the infrastructure deployment pipeline. Implement and configure the chosen tools to enable seamless automation of infrastructure provisioning and configuration.

• Integrate pipelines with existing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) systems and other relevant tools.

• Enable self-service capabilities for infrastructure provisioning and promote collaboration among development and operations teams.

• Provide support and subject matter expertise with respect to adherence to best practice security framework controls and other industry-based regulatory compliance requirements (e.g., NIST 800-37, 800-53, 800-171, 800-204, 800-207, CIS, PCI, IRS-Pub 1075, CJIS, and related).

• Assist with cloud infrastructure design and develop detailed architecture models for the client to host test, development, and production environments.

• Communicate complex technical concepts to individuals of various technical ability.

• Provide performance analysis & troubleshooting.

• Design and test large-scale workload and data migrations.

• Provide direct support to technical and non-technical entities to define requirements and deliver solutions to meet organizational needs including new environment deployment, upgrades, performance tuning, testing and disaster recovery.

• Integrate cloud services with on-premises technologies from Microsoft, Dell, EMC, HP, Nutanix, Cohesity, Pure Storage, VMware, Cisco, and Rubric.

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