Cloud Artchitect

**Job Title**: Cloud Architect

**Client Industry**: Information Technology

**Location**: Remote, Eastern Standard Time

**Job Status**: Contract is from 5/1/2024 - 12/31/2024, NOTE: There is a possibility the work could extend beyond 2024.

**Position Summary**:
Providge is seeking a motivated Intermediate Cloud Architect to join the team to support operations, maintenance, and enhancement of the platform. The Integrated Research and Analytics Platform (IRAP) is a cloud-based Data and Analytics platform that provides a seamless data management and analytics experience that allows researchers the ability to search data catalogs, access data, and collaborate with others.

**Primary Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Maintain the IRAP Platform by identifying, analyzing, and resolving any emergent vulnerabilities in a timely fashion.
- Perform any required version upgrades to the tool stack used by the platform.
- Perform required monthly maintenance activities such as upgrading servers to use the latest version of Gold AMI, performing patches, testing the platform after maintenance, etc.
- Perform security monitoring to maintain the ATO of the IRAP platform.
- Perform activities required to update the ATO of IRAP to host restricted datasets.
- Enhance capabilities of IRAP in collaboration with Board Data Architects, Cloud
- Administrators, and other stakeholders.
- Ensure the IRAP platform is in sync with the IaC Terraform code in the code repository.
- Monitor cloud resource consumption and alert leadership if the resource usage exceeds set limits.
- Identify opportunities for cloud cost savings. Ensure optimized use of AWS resources within IRAP by rightsizing, optimizing, and reengineering the infrastructure.
- Identify and manage external dependencies for platform enhancement efforts to ensure timely delivery of enhancements.
- Perform development of cloud infrastructure using Terraform and deploy infrastructure to production after successful completion of comprehensive testing.
- Perform IRAP platform user administration activities including but not limited to onboarding and provisioning new users, addressing, and resolving user inquiries, concerns, and issues.

**Minimum Skills, Knowledge, and Ability Requirements**:

- Minimum of five (5) years of experience with integration, systems analysis, or programming experience within Cloud environments.
- Minimum of (5) years of experience developing systems requirements and design specifications.
- At least seven (7) years of demonstrated experience in developing software according to software development lifecycles (SDLCs), including DevOps, Agile, Lean, Iterative, or Waterfall.
- At least seven (7) years of demonstrated experience in designing, deploying, and migrating secure and maintainable systems for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) environments.
- At least seven (7) years of demonstrated experience in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and related best practices for cloud deployment.
- At least seven (7) years’ of demonstrated experience in experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or ServiceNow.
- Proficient in at least one high-level programming language such as Python, Ruby, or Go.
- At least seven (7) years experience performing system administration activities including patching, upgrading, and maintenance of Windows and Linux servers.
- At least three (3) years experience building AWS Infrastructure using Terraform.
- At least five (5) years experience using Agile software development methodologies.
- At least three (3) years of experience building CI/CD pipelines, preferably using Azure DevOps or Gitlab.
- Familiarity with government cloud deployment regulations/compliance policies such as FedRAMP, FISMA, etc.
- Five (5) years experience designing, building, and maintaining Cloud infrastructure in AWS.

**Education** - Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Business Administration Science, Mathematics, or Engineering.

**Citizenship** - US Citizen or Green card

**Knowledge, Skills & Abilities**
- Understanding of and ability to evaluate new technologies for fit in current infrastructure architecture.
- Awareness of cloud information security risks and best practices, especially in highly secure operating environments.
- Experience transitioning legacy systems to cloud-ready architecture.
- Experience with route tables, access control lists, firewalls, NAT, HTTP, DNS, IP, and OSI Network.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to effectively interact with stakeholders of varying levels of technology acumen.
- Knowledge of FISMA security review and ATO process

Experience acquiring an in-depth understanding of large complex software systems to isolate defects, reproduce defects, assess risk, and understand varied customer deployments.