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Cloud Architect
Location: Linthicum Heights, MD (hybrid 2 days onsite) Duration: 12-month contract-to-hire Rate: $80/hr W2
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Education/Experience Requirements: HS 16+, AS/AA 14+, BS/BA 12+, MS/MA 10+, or PhD 7+ years relevant experience
Clearance Requirement: Active Secret (TS/SCI preferred) as confirmed in DISS (Used by: DoD agencies, military branches, and approved contractors)
Certification Requirements (must upload certifications into Beeline):
- One or more Cloud Security Certifications in good standing CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional Vendor: ISC2), Cloud+ (CompTIA Cloud+ Vendor: CompTIA), GCLD (GIAC Cloud Security Essentials Vendor: GIAC), GCSA (GIAC Cloud Security Automation Vendor: GIAC)
- One or more IAT Level II Certifications in good standing CompTIA Security+, SSCP, CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC
- One or more Cloud Certifications in good standing Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Administrator Associate, AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional/Associate)
Job Description
The Senior Cloud Architect position, a crucial role in supporting the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3), is a hands-on cloud engineering position that primarily focuses on migrating workloads to the cloud. The role is pivotal in delivering infrastructure migrations to the cloud for highly sensitive information and maintaining ownership of technical and service elements related to cloud migration projects. The Senior Cloud Architect contributes to all levels of the architecture and maintains technical documentation while consulting team members on secure coding practices and developing a familiarity with new tools and best practices. Drives the roll-out of cloud management platforms, evaluates their performance, and implements enhancements.
Develops and enriches the product portfolio of cloud services and value-added services. Creates solution recommendations to include a Basis of Estimate for cloud services. Evaluates the cost/benefit of cloud vs. virtual private networks vs. dedicated hosting vs. in-house solutions and identifies portions of the organization s IT platform/infrastructure with the highest potential return for cloud deployment. Performs operations and maintenance of secure managed cloud platform solutions. Implements and maintains automation to enhance operation, alerting, and auto-remediation of events. Develops, maintains, and deploys infrastructure as code (IaC) using CI/CD pipelines.
Responsibilities
- Create security-driven Azure enterprise architectures, enterprise systems, and service-oriented architectures
- Establish and execute detailed cloud migration project plans
- Drive cloud consulting engagements by providing technical and business insights to cloud strategy engagements, technology and architecture, deployments, cloud migrations, and portfolio management
- Lead the design and implementation of PaaS/IaaS services, constructs, and deployment methods using containerization, database-as-a-service, storage, and infrastructure automation
- Provide expertise in architecture and design of services and systems in support of various customer applications through the organization and its security
- Participate in technical project review meetings to ensure technical designs meet the client s operational requirements and infrastructure/security standards
- Educate and influence stakeholders and engineering teams on effective cloud solutions and best practices
Qualifications (In addition to the qualification requirements listed above)
- 3+ years of experience in Microsoft Azure Government
- Experience in architecture of flexible, scalable, and highly-available systems
- Experience with containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, AKS, EKS)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform, ARM templates, CloudFormation templates)
- Experience using DevOps concepts and tools (GitLab, JIRA, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Ansible)
- Familiarity with DoD IT processes, regulations, and current IT cloud initiatives
Preferred: Cloudworks experience