Azure Cloud Architect

Steampunk•McLean, VA

20h

About The Position

As a Cloud Architect, you will work within Steampunk's growing DevSecOps practice, delivering features to support cloud migration, cloud optimization, and cloud deployment. The role seeks candidates with 8-10 years of experience in cloud platform services and DevOps practices, including infrastructure as code and confirmation management automation. Steampunk is an employee-owned company in the Federal contracting industry, serving clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health, and DoD sectors. The company focuses on a Human-Centered delivery methodology and invests in its employees to foster outstanding contributions and growth.

Requirements

Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance
BS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a non-IT field and 2 years related IT experience
10+ Years of total experience
8 Years of Experience architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions
8 Years of Experience with one or more clouds (i.e. AWS, Azure, or GCP)
Hands-on experience as a Cloud Architect with expertise in Azure
8 Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
8 Years of Experience with systems development in an Agile environment
8 Years of Experience implementing infrastructure as code and orchestration
8 Years of Experience integrating deployments with industry standard DevSecOps tooling and orchestration
5 Years of Experience in several of the following areas: database architecture, ETL, business intelligence, big data, machine learning, advanced analytics
Current Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification (AZ-305)

Nice To Haves

Local to Washington, DC metro area
MS Degree in an IT-related field
Certifications: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional, GCP Professional Cloud Architect, Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert, SAFe DevOps Certification
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills
Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations
Experience with scripting in Concourse, Bash, PowerShell, Python, Groovy, or Ruby
Experience implementing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes
Experience with automation tools, including Pivotal, Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible

Responsibilities

Identify and implement the most optimal cloud-based solutions for the customer
Design cloud environments and demonstrate technical cloud architectural knowledge, playing a vital role in the design of production, staging, QA, and development of cloud infrastructures running in 24×7 environments
Implement and oversee cloud strategies include migrations and optimization
Establishing development tools and infrastructure for automation
Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes
Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results
Perform root cause analysis on complex business processes and technical components.
Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
Identifying technical problems, performing root cause analysis, and developing software updates and ‘fixes’
Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
Support enterprise Cloud applications or infrastructure through infrastructure as code including any activities around automated server or network configurations, large-scale software deployments, and monitoring and testing, such as CI/CD
Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations
Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize and modernize software systems
Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members
Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided
Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other team members.