Lead Cloud Architect

Job Title: Lead Managing AWS Cloud Architect

Location: Fully Remote

Eligibility: Candidate must be eligible to be employed in the United
States

Job Description:

Our client is looking for an experienced Lead Cloud Architect/AWS to
join our cloud infrastructure team as lead architect. In this role you
will work hand in hand with our client to help this agency modernize and
grow its cloud footprint. You will join an existing, high performing
team managing three cloud environments, AWS, GCP, and Azure.

In this role you will work with our team and agency leadership to help
advocate for the cloud, work to synthesize requirements from across the
agency into technical architectures and collaborate with engineers who
will be building these systems. You will be expected to provide
technical leadership and experience Managing Multi-Tenant cloud
environments.

In this role, the candidate should have a strong experience using AWS
well-architected framework, AWS services and technologies,
infrastructure, application, server, compliance, and hands-on automation
experience.

- Work across the agency to develop new cloud solutions to meet the
needs of application teams moving to the cloud.

- Work with GDIT stakeholders to develop solutions that meet the needs
of their customers and build out the agencies cloud vision.

- Lead a team of DevOps/SecOps Engineers to architect AWS, Azure, or
GCP solutions with the responsibility to ensure the customer
maintains an overall cohesive integration with itself, partner
systems, and solutions.

- Develop a deep understanding of our current systems to identify and
develop solutions which will help our team scale its cloud support.

- Support and advise on application assessment, migration and
modernization.

- Design cloud infrastructure, virtual private cloud, virtual private
network, relational database services, auto scaling, and computing
resources to meet customers’ requirements.

- Create and maintain a roadmap of customer enhancements according to
the customer’s decisions and directions.

- Provide expertise in high availability, contingency planning, and
automated provisioning.

- Collaborate with enterprise architecture team and other stakeholders
to determine enterprise tools, technologies, and processes.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

- U. S. Citizen and/or Green Card holder or Perm Resident

- Ability to secure a Public Trust clearance.

- Hybrid

- 3+ years’ AWS, Azure, or GCP experience in a solutions delivery
role.

- 3+ years’ experience with solutions delivery using well-architected
cloud frameworks, services, and technologies.

- 10+ years total IT, development or architecture experience.

- Experience designing and building applications in one or more
Infrastructure as Code frameworks.

- Experience leading cloud teams in a federal or state environment.

- Strong experience leading the development of multi-tenant AWS
systems including landing zone development, multi-account
networking, security automation solutions.

- Demonstrated ability to develop cloud solutions and see projects
through to successful implementation.

- Strong organizational and interpersonal skills, and demonstrated
experience working with senior level stakeholders and development
teams.

- Strong communication skills, both orally and in writing to convey
cloud technologies and solutions to all levels of customer
personnel.

PREFERRED Experience

- 2+ years’ experience working within a DevSecOps/DevOps environment,
utilizing AWS, Azure, or GCP services, solutions, and
provisioning/automating cloud infrastructure, services and tools.

- Experience in deploying infrastructure following CI/CD practices,
including building pipelines.