Job summary:


Title:
Cloud Solutions Architect

Location:
Remote

Length and terms:
Long term - W2 or C2C


Position created on 01/16/2025 10:32 pm

Job description:


*** Very long term project initial PO for 1 year but expect to go for 3/4 years *** Webcam Interview *** *** Remote ***

Sample Tasks:

  • Work with product managers, development teams, and other engineering teams to deliver cloud based solutions which meet the needs of the State.
  • Use project management principles and practices sufficient to determine program direction, plan work, set goals, and monitor and evaluate accomplishments.
  • Lead complex projects, write project plans, establish priorities, allocate resources/workloads in team environment. Sample project work may include:
    • Designing complex processes and measurement metrics
    • Applying research and analytical skills in evaluating new technologies
    • Providing technical decision making with limited resources and precedence
    • Developing specific solutions for unique and unprecedented problems
    • Analyzing technical problems and implementing solutions under tight time constraints
    • Using formal methods of systems analysis
  • Develop policy and procedure.
  • Create documentation, design, and technical artifacts in Microsoft Visio, Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
  • Use verbal and written communications to interact technically with staff and vendor  representatives and functionally with users (present technical concepts to both technical and non technical staff).
  • Present clear and concise reports to executive management/leadership.
  • Provide knowledge transfer

Desired Skills: 

  • Five years of Cloud Architect experience
  • At least two engagements with two different entities in a Cloud Architect role
  • Knowledge of Agile project management tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and ability to explain technical concepts to non technical staff/end users.
  • Effective customer service skills, including the ability to interact frequently with end users and other staff.
  • Sophisticated troubleshooting skills, including the ability to create and test hypotheses based on relative likelihood, and a willingness and ability to creatively consider all possible causes for a problem and test appropriately.

Cloud Design Desired Skills:

  • Experience designing enterprise cloud solutions leveraging, Microsoft Azure, Amazon 
  • Web Services, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
  • Excellent understanding of cloud shared responsibility and security models 
  • Secure system design and development principles to conform to state and federal guidelines.
  • Demonstrated ability to architect complex solutions on public cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience with cloud Monitoring and Alerting Solutions, such as Azure Monitor, SCOM,  SolarWinds, or others.
  • Experience providing governance around cloud services.
  • Experience in cloud migration planning, design, and process for large enterprise organizations, applications, and database services.

Cloud Solution Implementation Skills:

  • Scripting with Python and/or PowerShell.
  • Experience with Infrastructure Configuration Solutions, such as Azure Automation, Azure Orchestrator, SCCM Desired State Configuration, Azure Desired State Configuration, Puppet, Chef, or others.
  • Designing and implementing with cloud IaaS and PaaS Services.
  • Knowledge and usage of AWS CloudFormation or Azure Resource Manager, Terraform and/or Azure Bicep.
  • Experience leveraging development pipelines, DevOps philosophies and working with infrastructure as code (IaC).

 

Certifications and/or government experience required

 


Contact the recruiter working on this position:



The recruiter working on this position is Fazal(Shaji Team) Uddin
His/her contact number is +(1) (703) 4684697
His/her contact email is fazal@msysinc.com

Our recruiters will be more than happy to help you to get this contract.