Senior Cloud Architect

About the job
Desired Skills

•Five years of Cloud Architect experience

•At least two engagements with two different entities in a Cloud Architect role

•Knowledge of Agile project management tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira

•Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical staff/end-users.

•Effective customer service skills, including the ability to interact frequently with end-users and other staff.

•Sophisticated troubleshooting skills, including the ability to create and test hypotheses based on relative likelihood, and a willingness and ability to creatively consider all possible causes for a problem and test appropriately.

Cloud Design Desired Skills

•Experience designing enterprise cloud solutions leveraging, Microsoft Azure, Amazon

Web Services, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

•Excellent understanding of cloud shared responsibility and security models

•Secure system design and development principles to conform to state and federal guidelines.

•Demonstrated ability to architect complex solutions on public cloud infrastructure.

•Experience with cloud Monitoring and Alerting Solutions, such as Azure Monitor, SCOM,

SolarWinds, or others.

•Experience providing governance around cloud services.

•Experience in cloud migration planning, design, and process for large enterprise organizations, applications, and database services.

Cloud Solution Implementation Skills

•Scripting with Python and/or PowerShell.

•Experience with Infrastructure Configuration Solutions, such as Azure Automation, Azure Orchestrator, SCCM Desired State Configuration, Azure Desired State Configuration, Puppet, Chef, or others.

•Designing and implementing with cloud IaaS and PaaS Services.

•Knowledge and usage of AWS CloudFormation or Azure Resource Manager, Terraform and/or Azure Bicep.

•Experience leveraging development pipelines, DevOps philosophies and working with infrastructure-as-code (IaC).