Cloud Artchitect - Washington, United States - Providge Consulting

Providge Consulting

Verified Company

Washington, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

Job Title:
Cloud Architect

Client Industry:
Information Technology

Location:
Remote, Eastern Standard Time

Job Status:
Contract is from 5/1/ /31/2024,

NOTE:
There is a possibility the work could extend beyond 2024.

Position Summary:

Providge is seeking a motivated Intermediate Cloud Architect to join the team to support operations, maintenance, and enhancement of the platform.

The Integrated Research and Analytics Platform (IRAP) is a cloud-based Data and Analytics platform that provides a seamless data management and analytics experience that allows researchers the ability to search data catalogs, access data, and collaborate with others.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Maintain the IRAP Platform by identifying, analyzing, and resolving any emergent vulnerabilities in a timely fashion.
Perform any required version upgrades to the tool stack used by the platform.
Perform required monthly maintenance activities such as upgrading servers to use the latest version of Gold AMI, performing patches, testing the platform after maintenance, etc.
Perform security monitoring to maintain the ATO of the IRAP platform.
Perform activities required to update the ATO of IRAP to host restricted datasets.
Enhance capabilities of IRAP in collaboration with Board Data Architects, Cloud
Administrators, and other stakeholders.
Ensure the IRAP platform is in sync with the IaC Terraform code in the code repository.
Monitor cloud resource consumption and alert leadership if the resource usage exceeds set limits.
Identify opportunities for cloud cost savings. Ensure optimized use of AWS resources within IRAP by rightsizing, optimizing, and reengineering the infrastructure.
Identify and manage external dependencies for platform enhancement efforts to ensure timely delivery of enhancements.
Perform development of cloud infrastructure using Terraform and deploy infrastructure to production after successful completion of comprehensive testing.
Perform IRAP platform user administration activities including but not limited to onboarding and provisioning new users, addressing, and resolving user inquiries, concerns, and issues.

Minimum Skills, Knowledge, and Ability Requirements:

Minimum of five (5) years of experience with integration, systems analysis, or programming experience within Cloud environments.
Minimum of (5) years of experience developing systems requirements and design specifications.
At least seven (7) years of demonstrated experience in developing software according to software development lifecycles (SDLCs), including DevOps, Agile, Lean, Iterative, or Waterfall.
At least seven (7) years of demonstrated experience in 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.
At least seven (7) years of demonstrated experience in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and related best practices for cloud deployment.
At least seven (7) years' of demonstrated experience in experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or ServiceNow.
Proficient in at least one highlevel programming language such as Python, Ruby, or Go.
At least seven (7) years experience performing system administration activities including patching, upgrading, and maintenance of Windows and Linux servers.
At least three (3) years experience building AWS Infrastructure using Terraform.
At least five (5) years experience using Agile software development methodologies.
At least three (3) years of experience building CI/CD pipelines, preferably using Azure DevOps or Gitlab.
Familiarity with government cloud deployment regulations/compliance policies such as FedRAMP, FISMA, etc.
Five (5) years experience designing, building, and maintaining Cloud infrastructure in AWS.

Education - Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Business Administration Science, Mathematics, or Engineering.

Citizenship - US Citizen or Green card

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Understanding of and ability to evaluate new technologies for fit in current infrastructure architecture.
Awareness of cloud information security risks and best practices, especially in highly secure operating environments.
Experience transitioning legacy systems to cloudready architecture.
Experience with route tables, access control lists, firewalls, NAT, HTTP, DNS, IP, and OSI Network.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to effectively interact with stakeholders of varying levels of technology acumen.
Knowledge of FISMA security review and ATO process

Experience acquiring an in-depth understanding of large complex software systems to isolate defects, reproduce defects, assess risk, and understand varied customer deployments.