We are looking for an experienced Cloud Architect to work with teams across the organization to build and maintain monitorable, performant, reliable, and highly scalable software systems. They need to be comfortable with transparently sharing knowledge across a multi-disciplinary team and working within agile methodologies. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Must be a U.S Citizen
This role is W/2 Hourly & 1099
The Role
- Evangelize best practices for building and operating highly reliable systems in the Cloud
- Serve as subject matter expert in observability and monitoring
- Automate infrastructure and configuration management
- Consult in system design to meet reliability and capacity requirements
- Maintain strategic alignment of technical design and architecture to meet business growth and direction, and stay on top of emerging technologies
- Assist with all aspects of operational security and compliance
- Seek out potential threats to security and reliability and advocate solutions
- Ability to lead and mentor junior DevSecOps engineers
- Communicate credibly with a wide range of digital delivery disciplines and talent
Requirements
- 7-10 years of professional experience
- Experience with either AWS or Azure
- Working knowledge with Kubernetes and surrounding toolsets
- Proficient with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CDK etc)
- Expert in basic git actions like cloning, creating branches, navigating between branches, staging code for commit, committing code, resetting, and merging.
- Develop architecture for continuous integration and deployment as well as continuous monitoring
- Install and manage containerization technologies (e.g.Docker, containerD)
- Deep experience with Linux system administration
- Experience developing and monitoring mission-critical systems
- Substantial experience with programming languages like Python, or Golang,
- Experience with RDS, PSQL, and Dynamo DB
- Offer is dependent on eligibility for a Public Trust Security Clearance
Nice to Have