Cloud Architect - steampunk - Remote

The Remote Job Journal; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

A cutting-edge company is seeking a Cloud Architect to drive cloud migration and optimization efforts. In this role, you'll leverage your extensive experience in cloud solutions, DevOps, and cybersecurity to design robust architectures and enhance the overall efficiency of IT operations. Working closely with stakeholders and mentoring junior team members, you'll play a vital role in shaping the future of our cloud strategy. This position comes with a competitive salary and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Employee ownership

Professional growth opportunities

Flexible work environment

Qualifications

• 8 Years of experience architecting and developing cloud solutions.
• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance.
• Experience with Git SCM providers like GitHub, GitLab.

Responsibilities

• Identify and implement optimal cloud solutions.
• Design and manage cloud environments for production and development.
• Automate testing, deployment, and release processes.

Skills

Cloud Migration

Automation

DevOps Practices

Cybersecurity

Interpersonal Skills

Education

BS Degree in IT or related field

MS Degree in IT (preferred)

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud Platform

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Overview

As a Cloud Architect, you will work within our growing DevSecOps practice delivering features to support cloud migration, cloud optimization and cloud deployment. We are looking for candidates with 8-10 years experience with cloud platform services and DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code and confirmation management automation.

Contributions

Responsibilities include:

• Identify and implement the most optimal cloud-based solutions for the customer
• Design cloud environmentsand demonstrate technical cloud architectural knowledge, playing a vital role in the design of production, staging, QA, and development of cloud infrastructures running in 24×7 environments
• Implement and oversee cloud strategies includemigrations andoptimization

• Establishingdevelopment tools and infrastructure for automation
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
• Automate and improve development, testing, deployment,and release processes
• Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results
• Perform root cause analysis on complex business processes and technical components

• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Identifying technical problems, performing root cause analysis, and developing software updates and ‘fixes’
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• Supportenterprise Cloud applications or infrastructure throughinfrastructure as code including any activities around automated server or network configurations, large-scale software deployments, and monitoring and testing, such as CI/CD
• Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations

• Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize and modernize software systems
• Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided
• Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other team members

Qualifications

Required:

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance
• BS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a non-IT field and 2 years related IT experience
• 8 Years of Experience architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions

• 8 Years of Experience with one or more clouds (i.e. AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• 8 Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
• 8 Years of Experience with systems development in an Agile environment
• 8 Years of Experience implementing infrastructure as code and orchestration
• 8 Years of Experience integrating deployments with industry standard DevSecOps tooling and orchestration

• 5 Years of Experience in several of the following areas: database architecture, ETL, business intelligence, big data, machine learning, advanced analytics
• Certification such as:
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
  • AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional
  • Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert
  • Microsoft Certified Solution Architect Expert
  • SAFe DevOps Certification

Preferred:

• MS Degree in an IT-related field

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills

• Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations preferred
• Experience with scripting in Code Deploy, Concourse, Bash, PowerShell, Python, Groovy, or Ruby
• Experience implementing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes
• Experience with automation tools, including Code Deploy, Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible

About steampunk

Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $130,000 to $190,000. The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk’s total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here.

Identity Statement

As part of the application process, you are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee owned company, we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers – and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http://www.steampunk.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.