Cloud Architect at Horizontal Talent in Arlington, Virginia

Job Description:

Job Description

As a Cloud Architect, you will work within our growing DevSecOps practice delivering features to support cloud migration, cloud optimization and cloud deployment. We are looking for candidates with 8-10 years of experience with cloud platform services and DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code and confirmation management automation.

• Identify and implement the most optimal cloud-based solutions for the customer
• Design cloud environments and demonstrate technical cloud architectural knowledge, playing a vital role in the design of production, staging, QA, and development of cloud infrastructures running in 24×7 environments
• Implement and oversee cloud strategies include migrations and optimization
• Establishing development tools and infrastructure for automation
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
• Automate and improve development, testing, deployment,?and release processes
• Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results
• Perform root cause analysis on complex business processes and technical components
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Identifying technical problems, performing root cause analysis, and developing software updates and 'fixes'
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• Support enterprise Cloud applications or infrastructure through infrastructure as code including any activities around automated server or network configurations, large-scale software deployments, and monitoring and testing, such as CI/CD
• Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations
• Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize and modernize software systems
• Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided
• Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other team members

Required:

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance

• BS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a non-IT field and 2 years related IT experience

• 8 Years of Experience architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions

• 8 Years of Experience with two or more clouds (i.e. AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle)

• 8 Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket

• 8 Years of Experience with systems development in an Agile environment

• 8 Years of Experience implementing infrastructure as code and orchestration

• 8 Years of Experience integrating deployments with industry standard DevSecOps tooling and orchestration

• 5 Years of Experience in several of the following areas: database architecture, ETL, business intelligence, big data, machine learning, advanced analytics

• Solution Architect Certification, or equivalent, in at least two clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle)

• 5 Years of Experience working in a client facing or consultative architecture role
• Experience with AWS and Azure

• Located in Washington DC Metro Area

Preferred:

• MS Degree in an IT-related field

• Certifications in each of the four major clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI):

• AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate

• AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional

• Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert

• Microsoft Certified Solution Architect Expert

• Google Cloud Engineer

• Google Cloud Architect

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certified Architect Associate

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certified Architect Professional

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills

• Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations preferred

• Experience with scripting in Concourse, Bash, PowerShell, Python, Groovy, or Ruby

• Experience implementing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes

• Experience with automation tools, including Pivotal, Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible

• Experience working in a Health Science Program

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