Job Title: Cloud Architect

Client Industry: Information Technology

Location: Remote, Eastern Standard Time

Job Status: Contract is from 5/1/2024 - 12/31/2024, 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 high-level 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.
• 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 environments.
• Experience transitioning legacy systems to cloud-ready 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.