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    Cloud Computing Specialist - Silver Spring, United States - GAMA-1 Technologies

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    GAMA-1 Technologies, LLC seeks a highly experienced Remote Cloud Computing Specialist to support our growing Cloud Services practice.

    In particular, the successful candidate will help drive GAMA-1's efforts to support Office of Water Prediction develop, implement and maintain solutions in the AWS public cloud to manage Hydrologic Visualizations and Inundation Services, simply known as HydroVIS.

    The HydroVIS framework allows synthesis of a large quantity of National Water Model (NWM) output and provision of decision support tools in the form of Map Services that allow users to quickly identify areas of potential flooding.

    Along with a spatial display of the model output, HydroVIS provides important details about the timing, magnitude, and probability of potential flood events.

    The many off-the-shelf services provided by AWS, such as S3 buckets, SNS Topics, Lambda functions, Postgres Databases and EC2 machines, enable OWP to create a framework that organizes the flow of the NWM data and provides hourly updates to the dynamic Map Services.


    Supervisory Responsibilities:
    This position is directly responsible for leading, directing, and managing all OWP/HydroVIS contracted Infrastructure and Architecture personnel.


    Duties/Responsibilities:
    The Cloud Computing Specialist will support NWS/OWP/HydroVIS services which generate and provide data to a global stakeholder community.

    These systems and services are deemed mission-critical technologies that receive, process, disseminate, store, and archive petabytes of environmental data and information collected from OWP's Geo-Intelligence Division (GID) which is responsible for providing centralized and consistent data services, geospatial analyses, and cartographic expertise to support science and engineering development, systems implementation, and water resources operations at local, regional, national and global scales.


    The Cloud Solutions Architect will provide guidance and subject matter expertise in all aspects of network solutions within HydroVIS AWS cloud environment.

    These services will support the assessment of network cloud applications.


    Evaluate and recommend best-fit, commercially available, and FEDRAMP-compliant cloud services utilizing various cloud models (i.e., public, private, hybrid) to support NOAA's mission and specific business, technical, and security requirements.

    Support cloud optimization activities; performance and cost


    Develops architecture solutions and evaluates alternatives for private, public, and hybrid cloud models, including IaC, IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services.

    Researches and recommends cloud architecture to enhance internal and external platforms, tools, and systems.

    Develop architectural strategies/solutions to ensure application high availability in both hybrid (on-premise / cloud) and fully cloud-hosted applications to provide an 'always on' experience

    Acts as a subject matter expert for end-to-end cloud architecture, including current and future providers, networking, provisioning, and management.

    Defines optimal design patterns and solutions for high availability and disaster recovery for applications.


    Ensures delivered solutions are realized in the time frame committed; works with project owners to size, scope, and identify risk.

    Provides technical expertise in diagnosing and resolving an issue, including determining and providing workaround solutions or escalation to owners.

    Ensures delivered solutions meet technical and functional/non-functional performance requirements within.

    Evaluate, design, and implement solutions for migrating on-premise applications to cloud hosting solutions

    Design, architect, and integrate cloud capabilities using FEDRAMP-certified leading cloud providers that include, AWS, and GCP.

    Use a standardized process for mapping business needs to available cloud technology options, including assessment of risks and possible mitigations

    Use architectural design principles to develop robust, efficient, and secure cloud solutions based on customer requirements.

    Provide implementation guidance/support to the customer throughout the project life cycle.


    Develop tools and documentation to enable support organizations to resolve customer issues, including complex technical scenarios dealing with the cloud architecture.


    Required Skills/Abilities:


    The successful candidate must be self-driven and possess the analytical skills to resolve challenging technical issues, often through collaboration with other technical subject matter experts.

    The candidate will serve as a technical resource to the team regarding cloud engineering, security, performance, deployment, and troubleshooting.

    The candidate must demonstrate the ability to think strategically about the customer's business needs and requirements, propose and architect appropriate solutions, and solve technical challenges.

    In-depth understanding of cloud computing technologies, IT business drivers, and emerging computing trends and technologies.

    Experience and understanding of large-scale infrastructure deployments in enterprise-wide environments required

    Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior IT executives and growing data services in mission-critical/significant or highly strategic accounts

    Extensive experience gathering business and technical requirements for Cloud Services-based services and applications

    Extensive experience analyzing the customer's current infrastructure and applications, developing alternatives analysis for migrating to the cloud, and making recommendations on best-fit cloud solutions and service providers

    In-depth working knowledge of FEDRAMP and extensive experience applying best practices for building/deploying secure and reliable services and applications on FEDRAMP-compliant Cloud platforms

    Must possess an in-depth understanding of networking principles and technologies and cloud security practices.

    Experience using coding languages such as Perl, Java, PowerShell, PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.

    Experience architecting and building scalable, automated infrastructure

    Experience with Amazon Web Services, code-defined infrastructure, configuration management tools, and CI/CD

    Experience with AWS Lambda and "Serverless" systems

    Experience in large-scale enterprise IT environments

    Experience in a consultative, client-facing consulting role

    Understanding of load balancing, geo-redundancy, CDN, and VPN technologies.

    Knowledge of Cloud Architecture patterns and strategies (including IaaS, PaaS, Security, Compute, Storage and networking)

    Functional knowledge of Infrastructure as Code – Automation using Ansible, Chef, Puppet Powershell, CloudFormation, etc.

    Experience in high-performance computing (HPC) and clusters, machine learning, artificial intelligence (ai) applications, and frameworks in a cloud environment

    Excellent written, verbal, and analytical skills

    Ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance


    Education and Experience:
    BS/BA in Computer Science or related discipline

    Preferred Certifications:
    AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, Architect with

    Google Cloud Platform:
    Infrastructure


    8+ years of experience architecting and engineering enterprise Cloud Services (Iaas, PaaS, SaaS) using leading cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, etc.

    It must include networking, computing, storage, database, identity management/access control, monitoring, etc.

    8+ years of experience migrating on-premise workloads to the public or hybrid cloud environments and deploying cloud-ready applications.

    ABOUT GAMA-1

    GAMA-1 is a rapidly growing technology business that is based in Greenbelt, Maryland. GAMA-1 Technologies provides strategic information assurance, information security, and business enterprise and networking solutions to the Federal Government.

    Our success is based on the utilization of industry and agency standards, establishment of standardized processes, and IT Services expertise.

    At GAMA-1, we believe employees should grow, achieve, and develop just as the company grows, achieves, and develops. GAMA-1 is committed to providing our employees with opportunities for career advancement throughout their employment. For more information, visit


    GAMA-1 is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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