Senior Cloud Solutions Architect Secret Clearance

InfoReliance is hiring

Senior Cloud Solutions Architect (Active Secret Clearance)

Location: Washington, DC Metro Area

Requirements: US Citizenship & Minimum Secret Clearance

In order to meet the evolving needs of Federal Government, InfoReliance, an IT Consulting company founded in 2000, invested early to develop advanced analytics capabilities in Cloud Computing to remain competitive and has the expertise to help our customers achieve their goals and meet new Cloud-First mandates. Today, we stand out as a Cloud Leader.

InfoReliance is an AWS Premier Partner, AWS Managed Service Provider, and AWS Approved Reseller. We are also a certified Microsoft Cloud Deployment Partner and regularly team with MCS to offer customers total confidence in migration to Office 365. InfoReliance is also member of the Microsoft Azure Circle partner program, able to assist customers in adopting IaaS and PaaS cloud solutions. Additionally, InfoReliance is a Google Partner.

WE NOW HAVE AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY FOR A SENIOR CLOUD SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT-SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT TO JOIN OUR TEAM

1. Responsible for collaborating on and setting cloud vision; providing thought leadership in cloud infrastructure and cloud services architecture to meet client's operational objectives for cloud solutions.
2. Consulting with our clients as a cloud technology evangelist around Cloud technologies including IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, Public/Hybrid/Community Cloud Service Provider offerings to develop advanced analytics solutions to solve real-world problems.
3. Designing technical architecture for cloud analytics solutions that meet customer needs for scalability, reliability and performance.
4. Identifying new cloud technologies and platforms to help solve technical challenges or limitations in the existing infrastructure.
5. The Senior Cloud Solution Architect is responsible, with our established team of SMEs, change managers, integration engineers, system engineers and business analysts, for discovery and assessment of the current environment, proposing architectures, and implementing solutions for our client and its sub-agencies to consume services from the cloud.
6. This role will serve as an advanced analytics solution architect providing strategic and technical leadership for client teams migrating, developing, or enriching applications in the cloud.
7. The Senior Cloud Solution Architect is responsible for supporting multiple customers to evaluate customers current and anticipated needs, develop innovative solutions, support technical proposals, develop architectures, and evaluate cloud implementations according to industry best practices and standards.
   

Essential Responsibilities

• Provide thought and technical design leadership to cloud analytics solutions using cloud native and third party software.
• Serve as a technical SME for big data, analytics, cloud services, providers, and platforms.
• Act as a change agent for advanced analytics technologies and supporting processes to maximize results measured by performance and availability, business agility, technology freshness, and cost optimization.
• Lead cloud application architecting/designing sessions with business partners evaluating tradeoffs between design, risk, and technology.
• Execute prototypes and technical feasibility assessments for cloud analytics solutions.
• Apply advanced technical knowledge and skills in developing solutions or problem solving where complexity, innovation and technical expertise are required.
  

AS PART OF THE CLOUD SOLUTION TEAM, CANDIDATE WOULD FOCUS ON SOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT:

• Through various communication vehicles and methods (e.g., meetings, application demos, emails, workshops, etc.) develop, innovate and implement technical solutions for cloud projects including high performance computing, advanced analytics and big data.
• Engage with the client to secure buy-in for the adoption of cloud-based solutions, through workshops and briefs as necessary.
• Recommend technology strategy by understanding key client objectives; diagnosing and mapping client requirements; articulating solution risks and barriers; recommending delivery approaches; preparing time estimates; planning full project life cycle.
• Develop, contribute, and evaluate technical proposals related to cloud analytics projects and implementations.
• Provide expertise to construct the architecture and solutions to support current and future business needs, and to ensure the successful implementation and adoption of service.
• Develop and implement activities, such as but not limited to, sequencing, architecture, assumptions, dependencies and customer buy-in that shall include an end-to-end view of the overall implementation approach to design and develop innovative analytics systems with cloud platform services.
• Throughout the projects, you will participate in status meetings on progress, priorities, issues, performance issues, and future work.
  

IN ORDER TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE, WE EXPECT THAT QUALIFIED CANDIDATES WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, AND CREDENTIALS:

• Minimum of 8 years enterprise IT application experience, including at least 3 years of architecting strategic, scalable BI, Big Data solutions, and data analytics.
• Experience dealing with Federal government is necessary (must have, preference given to Law Enforcement experience).
• Ability to understand Big Data use cases , and develop business outcome driven use-cases and what it means for both compute and storage resources in order to recommend the appropriate server and storage required in a Hadoop deployment
• Hands-on with Big Data technologies with the Hadoop stack (e.g. Spark,MapReduce, Hive, Streaming) and practical experience that allows you distinguish between the implementation reality and the hype
• Minimum a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management or similar preferred.
• Senior level with more then 10+ years of hands-on planning, designing, and engineering enterprise class systems and services.
• Plan and establish Hadoop technology standards and usage frameworks within the BI Department.
• Knowledge of data conversion strategy, capturing data, creating source to target definitions for ETL/ data flow process, data quality and data base management
• Knowledge of image processing and image analytics including video analytics
• Knowledge of AWS and Google analytics platforms
• Work in concert with a team of ETL developers to ensure efficient and accurate data transfer within the entire EDW echo system with Big Data Platforms.
• Build and optimize information models, physical data layouts, configuration, optimization and monitoring Hadoop environments and improve overall processing efficiencies to support the needs of the business.
• In depth knowledge and hands on experience with the full range of cloud service providers/solutions, inclusive of AWS and Microsoft Azure offerings.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solutions Architect certifications (Associate or Professional) (or demonstrated ability and willingness to achieve certification shortly after hire).
• • Must have proven success in consulting to CTO-level clients.
    
• Proven experience in assessment, evaluation, and documentation of client environment, infrastructure, processes, and operations.
• Proven experience in communicating and demonstrating the value of cloud solutions to a variety of stakeholders to address complex and competing drivers in complex technical environments, with a track record of buy-in and successful implementation, migration, change management, and full adoption.
• Proven ability to lead change across large platforms using innovative technology solutions with federal government and commercial sectors.
• Demonstrated abilities in strategic thinking and leadership with strong relationship management ability.
• Demonstrated experience automating production cloud workloads.
• Knowledge and experience with analytics tools and platforms including Apache Spark, Hive, Presto, HBase, Kafka, MongoDB etc.
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Ruby, Perl, Bash, Powershell, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of IP Networking including VPC's, VPN's, VRF, DNS, load-balancing, and firewalls.
• Demonstrated experience with the Software Development Lifecycle.
• Understanding of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA and REST).
• Proven ability to lead change across large platforms / functional areas using innovative technology solutions.
• Demonstrated customer focus.
• Strong analytical and strong real problem solving skills (not on paper only).
• Communicates clearly and effectively evaluates information to make decisions.
• Must have previous and strong experience in presentation and writing.
• Anticipates risks and obstacles and develops plans for mitigation.
• Creates actionable strategies and operational plans.
• Champions and drives change initiatives.
• Confronts difficult problems in a positive and creative way.
• Balances multiple and competing priorities and executes accordingly.