Cloud Architect

Job Title: Cloud Architect Location: Washington, District Of Columbia 20003 (Onsite) Duration: 12 Months (Contract) Position Responsibilities: Experience spanning at least two IT disciplines, including technical architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management, security, or operations. Experience with multiple public cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, and GCP. Experience relocating ERP applications to a cloud-native environment. Ensures that standards set by Data, Security, Infrastructure, Platform, and other architecture domains are followed when designing and architecting cloud solutions. Demonstrate deep subject matter leadership of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multitenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability). Manage the development and implementation of cloud strategy, develop the architecture governance framework, and define architecture foundations. Demonstrates expertise in conveying technical and functional concepts for a specific technical specialty. Identifies improvements to project standards to achieve high-quality services/products. Identifies best practices and standards for the use of the product. Delivers support and design for industry-specific technologies requiring systems or network integration. Interacts with executive-level business users or technical experts. Functions as a niche technical SME. Lead experience with technical expertise across large, complex implementations for systems. Define and enforce Cloud architecture best practices: availability, redundancy schemes, performance, Disaster Recovery, data, and integration patterns. Troubleshoot issues across the entire stack: IaaS, PaaS, services, applications, network, and security. Formulate and define systems scope and objectives based on user needs and a thorough understanding of business systems and industry requirements. Devises or modifies procedures to solve complex problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operation time, and form of desired results. Includes analysis of business and user needs, documentation of requirements, and translation into proper system requirements specifications. Provides consultation on complex projects and is the top-level contributor/specialist in most phases of systems analysis, considering the business implications of technology's application to the current and future business environment. Must have: Cloud DevOps experience Broad technology experience across several of these areas including, applications development, relational or NoSQL database, DevOps, containers, CI/CD Must have minimum of 8 years of experience in the design and implementation of cloud workloads in Azure, AWS, or GCP Experience with cloud networking and network security, including virtual networks, network security groups, cloud-native firewalls, etc. 8 -10 yrs. experience in one or more architecture domains (e.g., business architecture, solutions architecture, application architecture) 8 -10 yrs. preparing complex technical documentation 8 - 10 yrs. experience in managing large operational cloud environments spanning multiple tenants through techniques such as Multi-Account management Minimum 3 years of microservice architectural experience Minimum of 3 years of experience working exclusively on designing and implementing cloud-native workloads. Experience with application lifecycle tools (Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Bamboo, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Cloudformation, etc.).