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Soft Tech Consulting · 5 months ago

Cloud Architect / Solutions Specialist

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid Level

$135K/yr - $180K/yr

4+ years exp

Soft Tech Consulting, Inc. is seeking a Cloud Architect / Solutions Specialist to support one of their clients in Rockville, MD. The role involves developing a cloud services delivery model and maintaining cloud systems while ensuring effective communication and collaboration within a team environment.

ConsultingHealth CareInformation TechnologyLegalRoboticsSoftware

Senior Management

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Primarily responsible for the client’s cloud infrastructure architecture and associated observability / instrumentation of various services using tools such as DataDog, Dynatrace, or similar APMs

Develop a cloud services delivery and operational model, keeping track of cloud activities, developing and moving applications to the cloud, and specifying computing demands

Provide advice to leadership regarding establishing and maintaining enterprise platform and cloud services

Develop a well-informed cloud approach and adoption process for the IT team

Develop capabilities within an enterprise cloud infrastructure to host workloads across the enterprise

Assist with infrastructure migration strategies, such as mass application transfers to the cloud

Monitor and maintain security and privacy compliance within cloud-based solutions

Respond to technical requests and incidents in a timely and competent manner, following the client's standard operating procedures and guidelines

Identify cloud architecture frameworks to help the client accomplish its strategic goals (e.g., for multi-cloud support)

Perform activities such as deployment, maintenance, monitoring, and management inside the cloud framework that has been created

Assess project-specific requirements and devise approaches to optimize resource use and enable the required scalability/flexibility for the project/workload

Work closely with other IT service areas, such as Identify and Access Management, Network Services, and the Information Security to develop new solutions and maintain compliance with the client's policies and procedures

Perform capacity planning duties to help keep track of cloud cost and usage, and ensure that contingency plans are established and available

Conduct migrations to transfer applications and other tools and services to the cloud

Ensure that critical applications hosted on the cloud are designed and optimized for high availability and disaster recovery in a cloud environment

Maintain the cloud hosting capabilities through code/configuration pipelines (e.g., Infrastructure as Code), and provide environments to the IC customers to build their systems and applications

Perform security and gap analyses on a regular basis and in a timely manner following the client's policies and guidelines

Qualification

Cloud architectureCloud migrationMulti-cloud supportCloud service providersInfrastructure as CodeCapacity planningCustomer service orientationCommunication skills

Required

At least a Bachelor's degree in information science, computer science, mathematics, or a related technical field

At least 4 years of professional work experience with cloud technology and with more than one cloud service provider (CSP) platform (e.g., among Azure, AWS, GCP, and OCI)

Hands-on experience working with cloud architecture and tools

Experience in migration of enterprise applications to the cloud

Experience in designing, planning, implementing, and supporting enterprise applications and storage in a cloud environment using technologies such as Unix/Linux, Windows, Oracle, SQL, Java, .Net, and other web application technologies

Preferred

Active certification in any of the major cloud service providers/platforms

Experience working for and/or with the federal government

Experience with multiple cloud storage technologies (e.g., AWS EBS, S3, S3IA, Glacier; Azure Blob, Azure File; Google Cloud Storage, Filestore, etc.) and knowledge of the security, cost, and performance differences and implications

Experience with capacity planning, performance analysis, disaster recovery planning, storage configuration, and/or storage consolidation

Experience with backup and disaster recovery for cloud environments, including using cloud as an alternate location for on-premises backups

Experience with managing cloud infrastructure as code

You will also need a solid understanding and hands-on experience with multi-cloud architecture, cloud computing, cloud storage, and cloud support operations and technology systems, as well as experience in designing and migrating applications to the cloud. The person shall have a positive attitude and excellent communication skills to effectively coordinate cloud migration strategies and support for the client, including but not limited to coordinating closely with the client technical teams to ensure that approaches appropriately align to the broader enterprise capabilities