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Akima · 1 day ago

Cloud Architect - Remote

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$115K/yr - $130K/yr

8+ years exp

Akima is a federal lifecycle solutions contractor that supports shareholder communities in Alaska. They are seeking a highly skilled Cloud Architect to design, deploy, and optimize cloud storage solutions for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The role involves developing IT strategies, overseeing cloud service models, and implementing security measures across various cloud environments.

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Responsibilities

Develops and coordinates cloud-based Information Technology strategies and oversees implementation of integrated systems across all standard cloud service models—SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and Hybrid Cloud

Develops technical design, build, and implementation of AWS and Azure applications, including large-scale data processing, computationally intensive statistical modeling, and advanced analytics

Understands and leverages tools such as Git, Jenkins, and Harness to create and maintain continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) build and integration pipelines

Understands and leverages tools such as Terraform and Puppet to build and deploy Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and associated configuration settings

Implements Development Security Operations (DevSecOps) toolchains using code analysis tools such as Fortify Static Code Analyzer, GitLab SAST, and SonarQube

Understands and leverages artifact analysis tools such as JFrog Xray and WebInspect DAST

Participates in all aspects of the software development lifecycle for AWS and Azure solutions, including planning, requirements, development, testing, and quality assurance

Improves, and upgrades enterprise services, software, and hardware. Identifies, leverages, and recommends new technologies. Establishes infrastructure with required security levels

Understands various government architectures, business modeling practices using object-oriented UML methods, end-user requirements including publications and plans, and configuration management processes and tools

Performs work with a high degree of latitude. Handles the most complex issues

Interfaces with the user(s) and sponsor(s) and all other stakeholders to determine their evolving needs

Generates the highest level of system requirements, based on the user's needs and other constraints such as cost and schedule

Ensures this set of high-level requirements is consistent, complete, correct, and operationally defined

Performs cost-benefit analyses to determine whether requirements are best met by manual, software, or hardware functions, making maximum use of commercial off-the-shelf or already developed components

Develops partitioning algorithms (and other processes) to allocate all present and foreseeable requirements into discrete partitions such that a minimum of communications is needed among partitions and between the user and the system

Interfaces with the design and implementation engineers and architects so that any problems arising during design or implementation can be resolved in accordance with the fundamental design concepts, and user needs and constraints

May act as a lead

Qualification

Cloud architectureAWSAzureCloud migrationHybrid cloud strategyCI/CDInfrastructure as CodeData architectureSecurityProblem-solvingCommunicationCollaboration

Required

Bachelor's Degree with 8-10 years of demonstrable experience in the design of enterprise level cloud-based systems architectures and defining essential core design features

Experience identifying, qualifying, defending, and implementing new technologies

Experience taking users' vision and defining paths to evolve systems, while striving to maintain the integrity of that vision as the system is developed

Experience with frameworks and infrastructure automation

Experience with large-scale data architecture, data modeling, database design, and information systems implementation

Experience with Cloud infrastructure (AWS: EC2, VPC, Lambda, S3, EFS, ECR/ECS, Route53, IAM, RDS, Autoscaling, CloudTrail, CloudWatch)

Experience with CI/CD and application build and deploy tools (Jenkins, Git, Artifactory, Xray, Jira, SonarCube, Terraform)

Experience deploying and monitoring web applications within AWS and Azure Cloud Service Providers (CSPs)