Chief Cloud Architect

Chief Cloud Architect, #861

Clearance: U.S. Citizenship is required. Must be must be able to obtain a public trust clearance. 

Dev Technology Group is looking for a Cloud Architect to support both Operations & Maintenance (O&M) and new development efforts for a federal government client. The ideal candidate will have relevant Cloud architecture experience, strong collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills, and the ability to manage complex work activities in a deadline-driven environment. This is a great opportunity to work on mission-critical systems that provide clear value to end users and our federal government clients.

What You'll Be Doing:

The Cloud Architect will have overall responsibility over the engineering task and the creation and management of cloud environments. Key responsibilities of the Cloud Architect include:

• Providing and executing strategies for DevSecOps pipeline adoption, development, and implementation.
• Providing solutions to enhance performance monitoring
• Implementing standard operating procedures (SOPs) for configuration management items in the cloud (including user access, creation and retirement of servers.), billing / usage of cloud resources, and migration between cloud environments.

Required Education, Experience, and Skills: 

• Bachelor’s degree with eight (8) or more years of relevant experience in an Enterprise IT environment OR No Bachelor’s Degree with ten (10) or more years of relevant experience in an Enterprise IT environment.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Agile development experience
• Excellent active listening skills
• Ability to discuss technical issues with non-technical, executive-level government officials
• Ability to problem-solve and develop solutions to complex business needs

Preferred Education, Experience, and Skills:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional.
• Designing logical and network diagrams.
• Migrating applications from AWS Commercial Cloud to FedRamp Approved Gov Cloud.
• Forecasting cloud costs and implementing plans to monitor and reduce costs and usage of cloud resources.
• Designing and implementing Cloud-based AWS solutions.
• Applying The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) in Agile solution designs to minimize technical debt and improve overall velocity.
• Software design and development, systems operations / management; database architecture, storage, and IT security.
• DevSecOps pipeline tools including configuration management, requirements (e.g. JIRA), automated testing, automated deployments, blue green deployments, and branching strategy and implementation.
• Network communication protocols, ports, routing, proxy settings, and firewall policies.
• Designing solutions compliant with the Federal Information Management Security Act (FISMA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Security Standards and Security Requirements.
• Message Services, such as development of Apache ActiveMQ services, MuleSoft and/or Apache Camel.
• Microservices / container architectures (e.g. Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes), orchestration and automation.
• Developing root cause analyses, identifying and resolving problems, and creating roadmaps for problems within system design and implementation of existing and new systems.
• Optimizing system performance and resource utilization through log and monitoring analysis.
• Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools, such as (but not limited to) Data Dog, AppDynamics and/or NewRelic.
• Designing and implementing Cloud-based hosting solutions, as well as Cloud-based backup and recovery, including failover zones.
• Best practices in billing and accounting with AWS to minimize oversubscription of services.
• Database management and administration (Mongo DB and Oracle).

Who We Are

Dev Technology is a growing IT company with an employee-centric culture that works on mission-critical projects for the federal government. We partner with our federal customers to deliver technology services and solutions, and to drive our client’s missions forward through innovation. We use Agile and DevSecOps principles to provide services including application development, biometrics and identity management, cloud and infrastructure optimization, IT and legacy modernization, and data management.   

As a Washington Post Top Workplace award winner for the past ELEVEN years in a row, the Top Workplaces USA for the past three years, and a recipient of the Companies As Responsive Employers (CARE) Award for the past four years, Dev Technology employees enjoy:   

• Generous and flexible time-off policy
• Flexible work schedules and telework options, including remote work availability for eligible projects
• Career development opportunities including a mentorship program, technical and management training through Dev University, hands-on learning through DevLab, tuition reimbursement, and paid training opportunities
• Industry-leading benefits including a choice of two health plans that include dental and vision, flexible spending account, commuter benefits, life insurance, and more
• 401K matching with a 5% matching contribution
• Regular team and company social events including our annual party, happy hours, fitness challenges, and more  
• A focus on community engagement including company wide support activities, employer match for donations, and time off for volunteer efforts
• To learn more about working at Dev Technology visit, Working At Dev Technology Group

Dev Technology Group operates in the following states: AL, AR, AZ, CO, DC, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, MD, MA, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NJ, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WV.

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