Cloud Solutions Architect

Top Skills & Years of Experience:

- Minimum 15 years of overall experience

- Senior Cloud Security Professional with 15+ years of experience with AWS and Azure and Application/Network Security.

- Hands-on manager with AWS, Azure, GCP security (Data Pipeline, Engineering, Networking, IoT &DevSecOps).

- Information Assurance and Cloud Security with a total of 15+ years of Software and Systems Engineering experience.

Responsibilities

Core Competencies

·       Design and deliver dynamically scalable, available, fault-tolerant, reliable, and secure cloud solutions on Azure, AWS, GCP.

·       Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

·       Chaos engineering experience.

·       Strong understanding of virtual networks and general network management functions.

·       Solid knowledge of concepts of designing and developing dynamic cloud solutions.

·       Solid knowledge of concepts and moving parts involved in continuous integration and delivery.

·       Expert guidance to development teams regarding infrastructure.

·       Interpret and provide solutions on complex technologies/architectures.

·       Cloud Formation / automation / Ansible / PowerShell / DSC / Comparable Linux scripting.

·       Experience equivalent to site reliability engineering, DevOps, and/or DevSecOps

·       Other skills: Containerization, Linux, Database skills, security and recovery, web services and applications programming interfaces (APIs)

Core Tasks

·       Provide strategic and support representing Design Services and the State of Michigan Cloud Strategy as a Subject Matter Expert.

·       Identify and prioritize critical business functions in collaboration with organizational stakeholders.

·       Build and maintain relationships across organizational teams.

·       Consult with vendor product specialists/sales, independent research organizations, on-site support engineers and fellow architects and administrators on best-fit technologies to ensure compliance to department policies & standards and technology roadmap.

·       Coordinate with Enterprise Architecture team for technology validation or suggestions for alternative solutions. If necessary, initiate Solution Assessments, Infrastructure Service.

·       Infrastructure provisioning and configuration.

·       Document and Knowledge transfer; document pipeline architecture, design decisions, and setup instructions for future reference and onboarding of new team members.

·       Conduct knowledge transfer sessions and provide training to relevant stakeholders to ensure a smooth transition and adoption of the infrastructure deployment pipeline.

·       Requests, and any applicable required documentation to implement new technology.

·       Advocate the use of emerging cyber security best practices, technologies, developing standards and procedures, promoting the usage of automated tools, developing strategies, and aligning practices with enterprise strategic initiatives.

·       Lead the development of technical artifacts including Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), Detailed Technical Design, Security Architecture Plan, Services Description Document, etc.

·       Produce architectural framework documents (i.e., white papers, guidance documents, best practices, technical reports, etc.).

·       Leverage broad-based understanding of technology areas and end-to-end knowledge of current installations to craft architectural solutions or standards that can be applied across the enterprise.

·       Define and build hypothesis around steady state behavior.

·       Run experiments around real world events to define potential impact or estimate frequency.

·       Tooling and Automation: Evaluate and select appropriate tools and technologies to support the infrastructure deployment pipeline. Implement and configure the chosen tools to enable seamless automation of infrastructure provisioning and configuration.

• Integrate pipelines with existing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) systems and other relevant tools.
• Enable self-service capabilities for infrastructure provisioning and promote collaboration among development and operations teams.

·       Provide support and subject matter expertise with respect to adherence to best practice security framework controls and other industry-based regulatory compliance requirements (e.g., NIST 800-37, 800-53, 800-171, 800-204, 800-207, CIS, PCI, IRS-Pub 1075, CJIS, and related).

·       Assist with cloud infrastructure design and develop detailed architecture models for the client to host test, development, and production environments.

·       Communicate complex technical concepts to individuals of various technical ability.

·       Provide performance analysis & troubleshooting.

·       Design and test large-scale workload and data migrations.

·       Provide direct support to technical and non-technical entities to define requirements and deliver solutions to meet organizational needs including new environment deployment, upgrades, performance tuning, testing and disaster recovery.

·       Integrate cloud services with on-premises technologies from Microsoft, Dell, EMC, HP, Nutanix, Cohesity, Pure Storage, VMware, Cisco, and Rubric.

Qualifications

Certification(s):

Google – Professional Cloud Architect

AWS – Solution Architect – Professional

Azure – MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure