Cloud Application Architect

The Senior Cloud Application Architect, will be involved in the design, implementation, and management of technology-based business solutions to meet business and technical requirements for Georgia Child Welfare – Office of Information Technology program initiatives. In addition, be accountable for analyzing and designing the infrastructure architecture.

Required Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or Engineering.
Minimum 12 years’ experience developing IT application architecture solutions for organization's business concerns.
Demonstrated experience in Core Java / J2EE technologies such as concurrency, JDBC, Spring, Hibernate etc., and Python programming languages.
Extensive expertise in web technologies particularly ReactJS and related frameworks.
Minimum of 4 years’ experience and in one or more cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Extensive working knowledge of Cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Microsoft Azure.
Expertise in AWS Cloud architecture, including EC2, S3,RDS, LAMBDA etc.
Proficiency in messaging frameworks including Kafka, JMS,MQ, and Active MQ.
Experience with data modeling and database development including SQL and NoSQL databases.
Excellent knowledge and experience of Microservices architecture, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Development and build tools (GIT, Jenkins, Maven, etc.).
Knowledge of Front, Middle and back-office functions, and applications.
Knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle for Iterative, Agile, and traditional approaches.
Create and maintain comprehensive architectural and design documentation, ensuring that all technical solutions are well-documented.
Experience with release management and an understanding of architectural schematics.
Excellent knowledge of CI/CD concepts and tools such as GitLab, GitHub.
Developing and deploying Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (CloudFormation, Ansible, Terraform etc.)
Knowledge of cloud monitoring and alerting services and capabilities.
Monitor and optimize application performance, ensuring scalability as user demands grow.
Ability to solve complex technical problems and accomplish tasks with minimal supervision.
Collaborates with system analyst, engineers, programmers to design systems to support applications.
Excellent communication skills verbal & written in English. To be able to communicate with IT teams and departments, end users and vendors.
Excellent time management skills.
Ability to support project team to prioritize activities and provide deliverables as planned.
Experience in BMC Control M Administration, calendars, and automated job scheduling system.