Cloud Technical Expert

Job Description

ECS is seeking a Cloud Technical Expert to work in Quantico, VA to provide support data architecture, engineering, and analysis initiatives for law enforcement and scientific organizations. Please Note: This position is contingent upon additional funding.

Responsibilities of the Cloud Technical Expert include but are not limited to:

• Create detailed plans for migrating applications, data, and infrastructure from on-premises environments to the cloud, considering factors like workload dependencies, data sensitivity, and business priorities.
• Thoroughly assess existing systems and applications to identify dependencies, compatibility issues, a nd cloud-migration challenges.
• Coordinate migration activities, including data transfer, application re-platforming or refactoring, and testing. Throughout the process, they ensure minimal disruption to ongoing operations.
• Optimize workloads for cloud environments, leveraging cloud-native features and best practices to enhance performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Develop integration architectures and patterns to connect cloud-based services with existing on-premises systems and applications.
• Design data pipelines and integration workflows to ensure seamless data flow between cloud and on-premises environments, leveraging technologies like messaging queues, APIs , and ETL (extract, transform, load) tools.
• Set up comprehensive monitoring and observability tools to track key performance metrics, resource utilization, and service availability.
• Analyze monitoring data to identify performance bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and areas for optimization across the cloud infrastructure and applications.
• Optimize resource allocation and utilization through techniques such as rightsizing, instance reservations, and workload distribution.
• Fine-tune configurations, adjust parameters, and optimize application code to improve performance, responsiveness, and scalability.
• Anticipate future capacity requirements and plan for scalability by designing architectures that can accommodate growth without compromising performance or cost-efficiency.
• Participate in architectural discussions and decision-making processes to ensure alignment with business goals and best practices.
• Document architectural designs, configurations, and implementation guidelines for reference and knowledge sharing.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior team members on cloud architecture principles, best practices, and technologies.
• Take part in agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives to provide updates on cloud-related tasks and initiatives.

Required Skills

• ship with active Top-Secret clearance.
• 10+ years of experience in Cloud systems including architecture, with a proven track record in designing and managing large-scale systems.
• Contributing to developing and maintaining cloud governance frameworks, policies, and procedures.
• Collaborating with procurement and finance teams to optimize cloud spending and manage budgets effectively.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification.

Desired Skills

• Experience working with Federal National Security, Defense, or Law Enforcement Organizations.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and relationship-building skills, including customer and employee engagement.
• Proficiency in scripting languages like Python, Bash, or Powershell to automate routine tasks, deploy infrastructure, and manage cloud resources programmatically
• Experience operating within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Kanban

ECS is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis any characteristic protected by law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local jurisdiction law.

ECS is a leading mid-sized provider of technology services to the United States Federal Government. We are focused on people, values and purpose. Every day, our 3800+ employees focus on providing their technical talent to support the Federal Agencies and Departments of the US Government to serve, protect and defend the American People.