Description:
Work Experience:
The Cloud Architecture and Administration team is seeking cloud professionals proficient in administering either AWS GovCloud and/or Azure cloud service platforms. Become part of a team responsible for fostering cloud adoption. At least five years demonstrated experience in an administration role supporting cloud platforms. As a Sr. Cloud Architect, we require 10 years of experience in the field of technology, 5 of which focused on supporting cloud technologies.
Technical Skills
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- Developing software according to software development lifecycles (SDLCs), including DevOps, Agile, Lean, Iterative, or Waterfall.
- Designing, deploying, and migrating secure and maintainable systems for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) environments.
- DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and related best practices for cloud deployment.
- Service offerings in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure (Government platform experience preferred).
- Understanding of cloud-based architectures, web servers, caching, application servers, load balancers, and storage.
- Familiarity with loose coupling, stateless systems, and best practices for designing cloud-ready applications.
- Understanding of cloud federation technologies such as SAML, OAuth, and OpenID Connect and how to apply these technologies to enterprise and public-facing applications.
- Awareness of cloud information security risks and best practices, especially in highly secure operating environment.
- Understanding of cloud vendor cost structures and the ability to optimize solutions for cost effectiveness.
- Experience transitioning legacy systems to cloud-ready architecture.
- Understanding of RESTful Web Services, XML, or JSON.
- Familiarity with government cloud deployments (FedRAMP, FISMA, high security environments).
Highly Desirable Skills (not mandatory):
- Proficient in at least one high-level programming languages such as Python, PowerShell or Infrastructure as Code (AWS CloudFormation, Azure ARM/Bicep, Terraform, etc).
- Experience with direct configuration and management of AWS or Azure components.
- Experience with designing or implementing cloud architectures for analytics/data processing/machine learning use-cases, such as data lakes, lake formations, etc.
- Experience with containerization as a strategy for cloud-enabling legacy applications.
- Familiarity with the Well Architected Framework.
- Experience with defining platform requirements.
- Experience in managing ADConnect sync scope and customization of sync rules to meet business requirements.
- Understanding of high-level O365 tenant management and strong experience with the migration on-premise Microsoft collaboration platform to Office 365.
- High-level understanding in the underpinnings of SharePoint Online, Teams, OneDrive, and ExchangeOnline.
- Strong PowerShell background with experience in automating administrative tasks in O365 using modules such as MSOL, AzureAD, AzureRM, PnP, and ExchangeOnlineManagement.
Understanding of Azure AD management, including experience in:
- Managing Conditional Access rules
- Assigning Licenses
- Creating dynamic and static groups
- Privileged Identity Management and Identity Protection
- Azure App Principals
- Business to Business (B2B) Trust
- Experience in designing Azure landing zone architecture for IaaS and SaaS deployments.
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