Senior Cloud Solution Architects Secret Clearance

InfoReliance is hiring!!!

Senior Cloud Solution Architects

Location: Falls Church, VA

Requirements: US Citizenship + Active Secret Clearance

What You Will Be Doing:

1. Responsible for collaborating on and setting cloud vision; providing thought leadership in cloud infrastructure and cloud services architecture to meet client's strategic and operational objectives for cloud solutions.
2. Consulting with our clients as a cloud technology evangelist around Cloud technologies including IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, Public/Hybrid/Community Cloud Service Provider offerings, cloud management tools, and converged infrastructure.
3. Developing cloud adoption roadmap via assessment of clients’ current application portfolio and technology stack.
4. Designing technical architecture for cloud solutions that meet customer needs for scalability, reliability and performance.
5. Overseeing the team that will be deploying cloud solutions and technologies across a range of industries and solutions.
6. Identifying new cloud technologies and platforms to help solve technical challenges or limitations in the existing infrastructure.
7. Participating in business requirement gathering sessions, gathering user data requirements, understanding the user requirements, and assisting in the reconciliation of technical and business requirements as they relate to the cloud.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Provide thought and technical design leadership to cloud adoption and cloud solutioning.
• Serve as a technical SME for cloud services, providers, and platforms.
• Act as a change agent for technologies and supporting processes to maximize results measured by performance and availability, business agility, technology freshness, and cost optimization.
• Lead cloud application architecting sessions with business partners evaluating tradeoffs between design, risk, and technology.
• Execute prototypes and technical feasibility assessments for cloud solutions.
• Apply advanced technical knowledge and skills in developing solutions or problem solving where complexity, innovation and technical expertise are required.
• Act as expert cloud consultant to internal IR business units as well as to IR clients.

In order to be successful in this role, we expect that qualified candidates will have the following skills, experience, and credentials:

• Minimum 3-5 years of hands-on experience building cloud infrastructure/systems with at least one of the three major cloud service providers (Azure; AWS and Google).
• Experience dealing with Federal government is a must.
• Minimum a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management or similar preferred.
• Senior level architect with more than 10+ years of hands-on planning, architecting, and engineering enterprise class systems and services.
• In depth knowledge and hands on experience with the full range of cloud service providers/solutions, inclusive of AWS and Microsoft Azure offerings.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solutions Architect certification (or demonstrated ability and willingness to achieve certification shortly after hire).
• Must have proven success in consulting to CTO-level clients.
• Proven experience in assessment, evaluation, and documentation of client environment, infrastructure, processes, and operations.
• Proven experience in communicating and demonstrating the value of cloud solutions to a variety of stakeholders.
• Proven ability to lead change across large platforms using innovative technology solutions with federal government and commercial sectors.
• Demonstrated abilities in strategic thinking and leadership with strong relationship management ability.
• Demonstrated experience automating production cloud workloads.
• Demonstrated Hands on experience developing solutions with cloud orchestration tools.
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Ruby, Perl, Bash, Powershell, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of IP Networking including VPC's, VPN's, VRF, DNS, load-balancing, and firewalls.
• Demonstrated experience with the Software Development Lifecycle.
• Understanding of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA and REST).
• Proven ability to lead change across large platforms / functional areas using innovative technology solutions.
• Demonstrated customer focus.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Must have previous and strong experience in presentation and writing.
• Anticipates risks and obstacles and develops plans for mitigation.
• Creates actionable strategies and operational plans.
• Champions and drives change initiatives.
• Confronts difficult problems in a positive and creative way.
• Balances multiple and competing priorities and executes accordingly.
• Have prior experience in writing proposals.
• Have working experience in envisioning, documenting and pricing solutions.

InfoReliance is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.