Overview

Our client is a financial institution providing the United States with a safe, flexible, and stable monetary system. They have a contract opportunity for a Cloud Architect to join their team supporting operations, maintenance, and enhancement of their platform. This work is Remote; however, candidates must be in the Eastern time zone.

Per our client contract, candidates must be U.S. Citizens or Green Card Holders.

Responsibilities

• Maintain 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 ATO of the platform.
• Perform activities required to update the ATO of the platform to host restricted datasets.
• Enhance capabilities of the platform in collaboration with Data Architects, Cloud Administrators, and other stakeholders.
• Ensure the 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 the platform 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 platform user administration activities including but not limited to onboarding and provisioning new users, addressing, and resolving user enquiries, concerns, and issues.

Qualifications

• 7 years' experience performing system administration activities including patching, upgrading, and maintenance Windows and Linux servers.
• 5 years of experience with the following:
• Designing, building, and maintaining Cloud infrastructure in AWS.
• Using Agile software development methodologies.
• 3 years of experience with the following:
• Building AWS Infrastructure using Terraform.
• Building CI/CD pipelines, preferably using Azure DevOps or Gitlab.
• 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 in-depth understanding of large complex software systems to isolate defects, reproduce defects, assess risk, and understand varied customer deployments.
• Per our client contract, candidates must be U.S. Citizens or Green Card Holders 

4 Reasons to Join The Squires Group, Inc.: 1. Our Commitment to You - We offer competitive pay, multi-year projects, and a list of exciting clients.2. Work-Life Balance - We work hard; we work smart and have quality time for family and "life." 3. Golden Rule - We treat our consultants the way we want to be treated: with integrity, professionalism, and trust.4. We Care About You – We help you meet your career goals and continuously support your efforts in the field.

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