Cloud Architect

Veteran Firm Seeking an ECIS Cloud Architect for Onsite Assignment in Washington, DC

My name is Stephen Hrutka. I lead a Veteran-owned consulting firm in Washington, DC, focused on strategic sourcing, supply chain management, and IT Staffing.

We are looking to fill an ECIS Cloud Architect role for the DC government's Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO).

The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience designing and implementing cloud workloads on Azure, AWS, or GCP and 8 to 10 years of experience managing large-scale, multi-tenant cloud operations using strategies such as multi-account management. Required certifications are AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional and Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Professional.

If you re interested, I'll gladly provide more details about the role and further discuss your qualifications.

Thanks,

Stephen M Hrutka

Principal Consultant

www.hruckus.com

Executive Summary: HRUCKUS seeks to hire an ECIS Cloud Architect for the DC government's OCTO, Office of the Chief Technology Officer.

Position Description: The ECIS Cloud Architect must have 8 to 10 years of experience and be a Subject Matter Expert in cloud infrastructure and networking technologies across Azure and AWS platforms.

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 an ERP application 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.
• Formulates and defines 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 for most phases of systems analysis while considering the business implications of applying technology to the current and future business environment.

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements: Bachelor s degree in IT or related field, equivalent experience; or a current Azure and AWS Architect Certification.

The target annual salary is $152,000 - $163,000.

Skills Matrix:

Skill/ Required/ Desired/ Years of Experience

Cloud DevOps experience/ Required/ 5

Broad technology experience across several of these areas, including applications development, relational or NoSQL database, DevOps, containers, CI/CD/ Required/ 5

Must have a minimum of 8 years of experience in the design and implementation of cloud workloads in Azure, AWS, or GCP/ Required/ 8

Experience with cloud networking and network security, including virtual networks, network security groups, cloud-native firewalls, etc./ Required/ 8

Bachelor s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience/ Required

8 -10 yrs. experience in one or more architecture domains (e.g., business architecture, solutions architecture, application architecture)/ Required/ 8

8 -10 yrs. preparing complex technical documentation/ Required/ 8

8 - 10 yrs. experience in managing large operational cloud environments spanning multiple tenants through techniques such as Multi-Account management/ Required/ 8

Minimum 3 years of microservice architectural experience/ Required/ 3

Minimum of 3 years of experience working exclusively on designing and implementing cloud-native workloads/ Required/ 3

Experience with application lifecycle tools (Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Bamboo, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Cloudformation, etc.)/ Required/ 8

Certified AWS Solutions Architect Professional/ Required

Certified Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Professional/ Required