Senior Cloud Architect - Washington, D.C.
ASRC Federal Cyber, LLC is a technical, professional services company providing state-of-the-art solutions to government and commercial clients. Our services include custom-engineered solutions that integrate with the latest technology, resulting in advanced information technology systems; business and management consulting services to assess client needs and reengineer processes; and strategic and tactical program expertise to support continuity and provide comprehensive oversight for mission-critical initiatives.
We partner with government agencies that require development of systems, such as end user services, asset management, network deployment and engineering services, power and energy management solutions, portal applications, command and control, and geospatial information systems (GIS) to operate more efficiently and profitably.
As an IT consulting leader, we're always looking for exceptionally bright and motivated people to join our team. We are thought leaders in our market space - providing comprehensive solutions to our clients, throughout the enterprise. If you are looking for an opportunity to use your skills in new ways, in an environment that promotes free thinking, presents positive challenges, and makes real impact - ASRC Federal Cyber is the place for you.
We are currently seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to work at our contractor site in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area supporting a large data and cloud opportunity in the civilian space.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintain data in a secure Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) compliant cloud infrastructure (currently in Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure) meeting agency security requirements
• Architect, design, develop, implement, and maintain complex multicloud infrastructures
• Analyze changes to technical implementation, source data streams, cloud infrastructure, administrator/analytic/BI tools, interfaces, application services, and business policies
• Maintain the secure cloud infrastructure (software and equipment) to house, process, control access to, and analyze and extract data
• Acquire and implement additional cloud services and capacity, when needed, to support larger data volumes
• Implement cloud security tools and best practices needed to maintain a secure multicloud environment
• Operate and maintain cloud-native endpoint security software tools, and ensure the tools are installed, configured, leveraged, and maintained to protect cloud environments from malicious attacks and files
• Recommend, procure, maintain, and manage cloud storage, to ensure a highly reliable, scalable, cost-effective storage solution
• Ensure Full Data Life cycle management is implemented for the stored data
• Provision and maintain cloud storage solutions as needed to offer analytic tools to users
• Assist in technical aspects of reporting artifacts for senior leaders of varying technical acumen. Provide appropriate context and scope, depending on the audience.
• Communicate with senior leadership on the technical aspects of solutions in verbal and written formats
• Make oral presentations to audiences of varying technical capabilities to evangelize and/or reinforce solutions proposed
• Create technical Proof of Concepts (POCs) to highlight the innovative solutions that can be applied to the customer operations

Responsibilities
REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
• One or more of the following certifications:
  • Google Professional Cloud Architect
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
  • Google Associate Cloud Engineer
  • IBM Certified Technical Advocate - Cloud v3
  • Linux Professional Institute Linux Essentials
  • CompTIA Cloud
• Active ITIL certification
• 10 years of experience
• Experience managing federal cloud projects that include data management, data strategy, and cloud solutions
• Experience with one or more different Agile methodologies including Scrum, Lean, SAfe
• Experience preparing project cost estimates to include but not limited to, labor, travel, equipment and software
• Proficiency with written technical proposals and review of proposals for technical integrity, quantification of risk, and strategic direction
• Experience architecting, working with scaled, adaptive, performantly efficient and resilient Cloud architectures
• Experience implementing complex, enterprise-level Cloud solutions in a multi cloud environment, consisting of COTS and GOTS products and Hybrid cloud environment
• Experience provisioning and managing Petabyte-scale cloud data solutions
• Successful client report and customer liaison experience
• Must possess a strong, proactive work ethic and superior collaboration skills

Preferred

• Agile certification (i.e., PMI-ACP, Certified Scrum Master, Certified Product Manager; SAFe Agilist)
• Master's Degree in related field of study or equivalent years of experience
• Cloud and data management experience with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)