Solution ArchitectEngineer

Title Solution Architect/Engineer Location Raleigh NC (Hybrid) Duration 12 Months Interview Type Either Webcam Interview or In Person Job Type C2CW2 Job Description

The NC Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is seeking an experienced Solution Architect / Engineer. This resource is responsible to work across the entire Cloud Services organization and ensure cloud solution are implemented as specified

The position responsible for:

• Provide technical leadership for one or more of the following domains: Business Architecture Application/Software Architecture Database Architecture Infrastructure Architecture and Security Architecture.
• Responsible for finding opportunities to improve architecture using cloud and cloudnative technologies.
• Handson abilities to build MVP (Minimal Viable Product) technology solutions in the cloud.
• Prior experience in digital transformation for large complex applications.
• Provides assessment of current state technology architecture and recommendation of future state technology architecture
• Identifies architectural risks and plans to mitigate risks ensures adherence to standards and best practices and influences and communicates effectively with nontechnical audiences including senior ITD and business stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Software Development teams Product Managers and Business Owners to ensure smooth deployment and operation of systems.
• Guide/Build CI/CD pipeline configurations to orchestrate provisioning and deployment of both large and smallscale systems.
• Build and maintain tools for deployment monitoring and operations.
• Develop Cloud Operation Framework and roles and responsibilities for each category in the framework.
• Automate tools to monitor system health and reliability to support business process requirements Troubleshoot and resolve issues in development test and production environments.
• Communicate status and risks to the product teams Help automate and streamline operations and processes.
• Ensure solution designs and implementation meet architecture quality standards.
• Guide Solution Architects / Tech Leads to ensure that application and integration architecture aligns with system design guidelines and enterprise architecture standards.
• Mindful of the Healthcare Industry and Digital Health trends.
• Security Architecture / Security Controls Implementation
• Gap Analysis and Mitigation

Knowledge Skills and Abilities / Competencies:

• Active status as an AWS Certified Architect (DevOps or Architect preferred)
• Implements technical processes to roll out solutions.
• Works with the project team to deliver fully functional products in a timely manner
• Knowledge of CI/CD (Jenkins TravisCI CircleCI AppVeyor etc) is required.
• Working experience with one of more automation tools and repository such as Ansible Puppet Terraform CHEF TeamCity Artifactory SVN Bitbucket
• Working experience with cloud native tools like CloudFormation Terraform ELB Autoscaling and EC2
• Good understanding of VPCs Subnet configuration route table Internet gateway VPC peering Transit gateway VPC Link etc
• AWS Amazon Web Services Certified SysOps Administrator Associate
• Active certification status on any cloud providers: AWS/GCP/Azure Solution Architect (preferred)
• Active certification status on any cloud providers: AWS/GCP/Azure Developer (preferred)
• Track record of successfully establishing and implementing transformation programs in an Agile and DevOps environment

Minimum Education and Experience:

• Bachelors degree or higher in Information Systems Management Information Technology Computer Science Business Management Engineering or another related discipline
• 5 years of professional IT experience working with Windows Server or Linux environments.
• 4 Years of AWS Experience CloudFormation experience
• 8 years of related experience including experience working with Agile Methods and modern technology environments.
• 3 years of Cloud architecture experience and cloud economics
• Experience leading cross functional project teams workgroups.
• Highly desired Knowledge of security technologies and methods for securing information
• Highly desired Demonstrated proficiency in understanding enterprise architecture life cycle methodologies.
• Highly desired Interpersonal and leadership skills that demonstrate collaboration facilitation negotiation conflict management and influence.

Skill Required / Desired Amount of Experience Experience in establishing and implementing governance model for the Cloud Migration and transformation efforts Highly desired Experience in Migrating from Onprem to Cloud using cloud infrastructure on IaaS PaaS and SaaS solutions Required 2 Years Experience with cloud infrastructure specifically Amazon Web Services (AWS) like EC2 S3 RDS ELB SSM EBS AND Cloud formation. Required 4 Years Professional hands on IT experience working with Windows Server or Linux environments. Required 5 Years Experience with security best practices and implementing security controls in a AWS cloud environment Highly desired Experience working with Agile Methods and modern technology environments. Required 8 Years Experience leading cross functional project teams workgroups Required 2 Years Demonstrated proficiency in understanding enterprise architecture life cycle methodologies. Highly desired Interpersonal and leadership skills that demonstrate collaboration facilitation negotiation conflict management and influence Required 4 Years

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