Cloud Architect

Job Description:
• Participates in designing, developing and refining the State of Michigan cloud to ensure that it is secure, reliable, and robust. Implements changes to the cloud to increase performance and efficiencies.
• Develops and implements detection and disaster recovery activities to test cloud services; participates in detecting, investigating, documenting, and reporting actual or potential cloud environment security violations, intrusions, failures, performance, or other issues.
• Designs cloud backbone infrastructure, to provide reliable, optimized, high performance cloud services.
• Evaluates security products and tests security systems performance; assists in planning, implementing, and testing disaster recovery procedures; participates in making formal risk assessments related to the State of Michigan cloud environment. Roles and Responsibilities:
• Participate in planning of architecture, tooling, and processes during the project design and implementation phases Maintain Azure CI/CD pipelines, servers, scripts, and practices/strategies.
• Create, implement, and document infrastructure patterns within Azure Teach development, operations, and other internal teams about various Azure resource scaling and improved
utilization.