What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Architect position at Government Tactical Solutions, LLC?
Location: 100% Onsite out of Linthicum Heights, MD
Security Clearance: Active Secret
Job Type: Full-Time
Target Salary Range*:$100,000 - $170,000
Cloud Architects are required to any agency setting up cloud infrastructures. They are needed to manage the architecture of an organization’s cloud environment to ensure the scalability, agility, optimization, security, integration, compliance, and interoperability of cloud deployed capabilities. They bring expertise in designing and deploying cloud-based solutions more efficiently and effectively. This position would be responsible for analyzing the requirements of a federal agency's applications and capabilities being built to provide an underlying foundation within the cloud to properly host and support those services. The Cloud Architect would work with other Cloud Engineers and Cloud Security personnel to properly define the cloud infrastructure, networking, and deployment of agency systems.
Qualifications: Experience:
Security Clearance: Active Secret
Job Type: Full-Time
Target Salary Range*:$100,000 - $170,000
- This represents the potential salary range for this position depending on education level, years of experience and/or certifications in addition to other position specific requirements which may impact salary
Cloud Architects are required to any agency setting up cloud infrastructures. They are needed to manage the architecture of an organization’s cloud environment to ensure the scalability, agility, optimization, security, integration, compliance, and interoperability of cloud deployed capabilities. They bring expertise in designing and deploying cloud-based solutions more efficiently and effectively. This position would be responsible for analyzing the requirements of a federal agency's applications and capabilities being built to provide an underlying foundation within the cloud to properly host and support those services. The Cloud Architect would work with other Cloud Engineers and Cloud Security personnel to properly define the cloud infrastructure, networking, and deployment of agency systems.
Qualifications: Experience:
- 12 years of experience, may have supervisory or management experience
- Proficiency in cloud architecture design, including networking, scalability, and security of cloud-based solutions.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure). Preferably Azure.
- Knowledge of cloud-native technologies and tools such as containerization, Kubernetes, and serverless computing.
- Knowledge of cloud infrastructure including virtualization, storage, networking, and load balancing.
- Understanding of cloud security best practices including encryption, micro segmentation, and least privilege.
- Familiarity with cloud management and Infrastructure/Configuration as code tools like Terraform and Ansible.
- Experience with DevSecOps methodologies and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices.
- Awareness of Microservice and Service Oriented Architecture patterns.
- Knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).
- Experience with cloud observability toolsets.
- Understanding of version control systems (Git) and their integration into CI tools (Gitlab CI).
- Basic understanding of Linux administration and programming (Java, Python, C#).
- Experience with identity and access management (IAM) solutions (Azure Entra ID, AWS IAM, Keycloak).
- Certification Requirements (must upload a copy of the active certifications):
- AWS Solutions Architect Professional or Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- CISSP
Salary : $100,000 - $170,000