We have an urgent opening for Sr. Cloud Solutions Architect
Location – Herndon, VA or Remote
Term – Temp to Perm
Who we are looking for
We are seeking a driven and talented Senior Cloud Solutions Architect, to join our thriving Cloud Services business unit and lead some of the best Cloud Architects and Cloud Engineers in the market. A successful individual will bring a strong technical skill set, team management experience, and a proven ability to interface with large enterprises at various stages of cloud adoption.
What to expect:
- Be a positive force within the team
- Be ready to roll up your sleeves
- Work effectively within a delivery-centric professional services organization
- Navigate client-facing challenges and work in tandem with other vendors
- Support execution activities across the full project lifecycle, from planning, through implementation, to operational readiness
- Focus on cloud-native services and optimizing the customer landscape through adoption of these services
- Lead technical discussions both internally and with customer or vendor teams
- Advocate successes, via presentations, written reports, and conversations with the client
- Identify and brief customers on technologies and capabilities, especially as it aligns to new or future project initiatives
- Deconstruct customer requirements and tasks into manageable work plans
- Identify and communicate technical delivery risks to client’s leadership
- Ensure the alignment of technical solutions to client’s standards and industry best practices
- Take ownership of solutions, assignments, actions items and issues, and remain accountable for their completion
- Produce high-quality, well-written technical documentation, including design plans, implementation diagrams, data flow mappings, and as-built documents
- Provide transparent and regular status updates in requested format
- Be willing to learn, collaborate, contribute and improve
- Support recruitment activities as necessary
- Train and mentor project staff
- Support personnel management tasks
- Achieve and maintain AWS or other cloud certification levels at least annually
Required Skills:
- A “sure can!” attitude
- Bachelors degree in a technical discipline
- Strong ability to translate customer requirements into industry-recognized design patterns and recommendations
- Strong ability to discuss and present technical subjects from a business point of view
- Ability to decompose technical architectures into discrete engineering plans
- Depth of understanding around enterprise-level cloud platform security and governance controls
- Depth of understanding of cloud network and routing constructs (e.g.: VPC / Landing Zone design patterns, Transit Hub / Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN , BGP)
- Depth of understanding of common infrastructure roles, tools and data flows (e.g.: DNS, NTP, WAF, logging services, web proxies)
- Comfort working with both Windows and Linux (RHEL) operating systems
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong analytic, organization, presentation, customer service and facilitation skills
What would set you apart
- A current Red Hat Certified Architect or Engineer designation
- Experience working with OpenShift, Docker or other container technologies
- Basic knowledge of Terraform, Ansible, Python, PowerShell, Bash and AWS Cloud Formation
