Sr. Cloud Architect

Veredus - DC

Vienna (VA)

On-site

USD 130,000 - 150,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical Benefits

Consultant Lunches and Outings

Dental Benefits

Life Insurance ($20,000 benefit)

Vision

Accrued Time Off Program

401K

Job summary

A leading staffing firm based in Virginia is seeking a Cloud Solutions Architect to design and build enterprise cloud solutions. You will be responsible for ensuring high availability and redundancy while maintaining compliance with uptime SLAs. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience with VMware, enterprise storage, and data center management. This role offers competitive salary and benefits including medical, dental, life insurance, and a 401K plan.

Qualifications

3-5 years managing large-scale data center environments.
Demonstrated ability to design and support cloud solutions.
Familiarity with automation for cloud solutions.

Responsibilities

Monitor cloud market and evaluate new products.
Document and diagram cloud solutions.
Provide technical guidance to engineering team.

Skills

Design cloud solutions for 100,000+ users

Strong analytical skills

3-5 years managing large-scale data centers

Enterprise storage experience

Understanding of product development lifecycle

Experience as technical consultant

Ability to incorporate automation

Deep understanding of Microsoft and Linux

WAN architecture experience

Experience as a system architect

Experience in server and networking

Strong background with Microsoft Windows Server

Scripting experience (batch, VBScript, PowerShell)

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline

Tools

VMware

Microsoft technologies

Linux operating systems

Job description

Veredus recently named one of the “Best Staffing Firms to Work for in 2012” by Staffing Industry Analysts!

Job Description

Cloud Solutions Architect

Perm Role

$130,000-$150,000

This employee will be responsible for building enterprise solutions and architecting the platform for hosting these solutions. We offer both Public Cloud services (multi-tenant) and dedicated Private Cloud services that need to be built and maintained for our customers. Candidates must be experts in all the technologies used to build an enterprise cloud platform including VMware, enterprise storage (SANs, NAS), virtual networking, capacity planning, cloud security, desktop virtualization, and application delivery. The candidate must be well versed in enterprise data center configuration, remote management, and remote monitoring solutions needed to build totally fault tolerant and highly available solutions for our customers. Points of failure need to be eliminated and platforms must be architected to meet 100% uptime SLAs. New systems must be built with local and geographic redundancy.

Responsibilities

Visionary in the pursuit of cost effective, high availability solutions.
Monitor the market and evaluate new cloud products, services, and appliances from leading vendors such as VMware, Citrix, Microsoft, Cisco, HP, Dell, and Juniper.
Work with Executive Mgmt to develop products that can be monetized at high margin.
Document and diagram cloud solutions. Capture all specific requirements needed to support the platform and systems.
Provide team lead support and guidance to Tier 3 (Senior) Engineers and rest of engineering team.
Evaluate customer requirements on large enterprise deployments to provide architectural guidance, experience, and approval.
Responsible for all the technical aspects of our solutions at the core, structural level.
Participate in frequent training to bring cloud industry best practices to iCore’s solutions. Earn vendor and industry certifications.
Design, build, support, and train at all layers of the cloud platform’s architecture including core physical components, virtualization layer, virtual networking and connectivity, security design and implementation, application layer, and public/private/hybrid cloud solutions.
Provide consultation and support (business and technical) to users and other technical units.
Personally or oversee installation and configuration of all cloud hardware and software.

Skills and Requirements

Demonstrated ability to design, build, and support cloud solutions for 100,000+ users.
Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
At least three to five years of experience managing large‑scale production data centre environments.
Enterprise storage experience (Equalogic, NetApp, HP, IBM, etc.).
Unique technical understanding of the product development lifecycle, including identifying opportunities to provide new solutions to customers.
Demonstrated experience building products from concept phase to robust solutions launched in production many times over.
Experience as a technical consultant, senior engineer, system architect, and sales engineer.
Demonstrated ability to incorporate automation into all aspects of cloud solutions. Scripting and development used in automating design, delivery, monitoring, and support of the cloud platform.
Deep understanding of Microsoft and most popular Linux operating systems.
WAN architecture experience: MPLS, Site‑to‑Site VPNs, SSL VPN, and WAN acceleration.
At least 2 years experience as a system architect.
At least 5 years experience as a Senior engineer in both server and networking disciplines.
Strong background with Microsoft Windows Server (2003/08/12), Active Directory, Exchange Server 2003/2010, Lync Server 2010, SharePoint, Terminal Services, and SQL Server (at least 7 years total experience).
Experience with scripting: batch, VBScript, or PowerShell.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities.

Additional Skills Desired

MCSE, CCNA, VMware, and SAN manufacturer certifications.
Experience implementing and managing environments with VMware vCloud Director.
Management experience, such as experience as project leader or senior member of a successful project team.
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
Familiarity with Juniper Networks vGW virtual security appliance.

Additional Information

Why Veredus?

Candidates work with a professional recruiter whose average experience is eight years in the industry. That means they have intimate knowledge of the Information Technology industry and market trends‑who is in demand now and who will be next. Your Veredus Recruiter will lead you through a thorough screening process in order to understand your skills, experience, needs, and desires. They also counsel their candidates in resume writing, interviewing, and career planning so when there’s a position you really want, you’re fully prepared to get it. Additionally, Veredus provides the following benefits:

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