Sr Cloud Solutions Architect

The ideal candidate for this position will play a critical role in:

• analyzing the current storage architecture of the VA.
• Making recommendations for cost savings by assessing what requires cold storage vs. hot storage
• Developing a white paper and presentation to the senior leadership at the VA

Responsibilities:

• Primarily responsible for assessing the client’s cloud storage infrastructure architecture and requirements
• Develop a cloud storage model, keeping track of cloud activities, developing and moving applications to the cloud, and specifying computing demands.
• Provide advice to leadership regarding establishing and maintaining enterprise platform and cloud services.
• Ensure that critical applications hosted on the cloud are designed and optimized for high availability and disaster recovery in a cloud environment.
• Maintain the cloud hosting capabilities through code/configuration pipelines (e.g., Infrastructure as Code), and provide environments to the IC customers to build their systems and applications.

Qualifications:

The successful candidate must have:

• At least a Bachelor’s degree in information science, computer science, mathematics, or a related technical field
• At least 10 years of professional work experience with cloud technology and with more than one cloud service provider (CSP) platform (e.g., among Azure, AWS, GCP, and OCI)
• Hands-on experience working with cloud architecture and tools
• Experience in designing, planning, implementing, and supporting enterprise applications and storage in a cloud environment using technologies such as Unix/Linux, Windows, Oracle, SQL, Java, .Net, and other web application technologies