Preferred Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate; Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies; Architect with Google Cloud Platform: Infrastructure

GAMA-1 Technologies, LLC is seeking a highly experienced remote Cloud Solutions Architect/Engineer to support GAMA-1’s growing Cloud Services practice. In particular, the successful candidate will help drive GAMA-1’s efforts to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Cloud initiatives, which are intended to increase the bureau’s IT efficiency, improve IT delivery, and reduce costs. The candidate must have extensive experience architecting and provisioning enterprise-level Cloud services, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). The Cloud Solutions Architect will support the design and implementation of best of breed cloud services across several major cloud service providers, including AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure (Azure). This is a technical customer-facing role that will be accountable for the end-to-end customer experience.

The successful candidate will support GAMA-1’s services and solutions to:

• 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 IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services.
• Researches and recommends cloud architecture that will 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 cloud end-to-end 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 time frame committed; works in conjunction with project owners to size, scope and identify risk.
• Provides technical expertise in the diagnosis and resolution of an issue, including the determination and provision of workaround solution or escalation to owners.
• Ensures delivered solutions meets 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 Azure, AWS, and GCP.
• Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to create a modernization roadmap and architect solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects and successful deployments, orchestrating key resources and infusing key infrastructure technologies (e.g. Windows and Linux IaaS, Security, Management, Storage, Networking)
• Provide high level cost and resource estimates for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as Service (SaaS) offerings
• Use standardized process for mapping business needs to available cloud technology options, including assessment of risks and possible mitigations
• Architect, engineer, and deploy/provision secure and robust cloud services that include IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and support service quality, outage management, subscription management, correlation of usage, and charges, and cost efficient solution architecture.
• 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 the support organizations to resolve customer issues, including complex technical scenarios dealing with the cloud architecture.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND 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 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.

 EDUCATION, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE

• BS in Computer Science or related discipline
• Preferred Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate; Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies; Architect with Google Cloud Platform: Infrastructure
• In-depth understanding of cloud computing technologies, IT business drivers, and emerging computing trends and technologies.
• 7 years of experience architecting and engineering enterprise Cloud Services (Iaas, PaaS, SaaS) using leading cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, and Azure. Must include networking, compute, storage, database, identify management/access control, monitoring, etc.
• 7 years of experience migrating on-premise workloads to the public or hybrid cloud environments and deploying cloud-ready applications.
• 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 large 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 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 with AWS Neptune
• 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, Terraform, etc.
• Excellent written, verbal, and analytical skills
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance
• United States Citizen

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 www.gama1tech.com

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.