Systems Architect-W2 Only

Role: Systems Architect-W2 Only

Location: Columbia, SC

Duration: One Year

Job Description:
Serve as a technical thought leader and SME for agency public cloud ecosystem across the State and will plan, analyze, design, test, and deploy enhancements to our Microsoft Azure and AWS cloud and PaaS solutions and provides knowledge transfer to team members. Works directly with technical teams, customers, vendors, and executive leadership to determine Cloud requirements, analyze business impact, ROI, and sustainability. Ensures Cloud architecture meets the service delivery needs of the Division of Technology Operations. Ensures proper integration of state security standards for all Cloud systems.

Daily duties / responsibilities:

• Analyze existing agency infrastructure, strategic challenges, services, customers, and skill sets to make informed decisions on agency cloud infrastructure and strategy.
• Works with agency teams to implement an IT governance model that guides the expansion of agencies' Cloud architecture and services. Documents the architecture and socializes architectural standards and capabilities with key stakeholders.
• Perform system administration, automation, and development tasks for the Cloud Management Platform (CMP).
• Work with agency and customer personnel to facilitate migrations to the agency cloud infrastructure.
• Maintain continuity of shared services offered across AWS and Azure.
• Lead, train and develop internal agency staff.

Required skills:

• Public Cloud infrastructure expertise: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Terraform.

• Ability to integrate Cloud/ DevOps platforms with third party tools.
• Experience with AWS Governance and Best Practices (IAM, Organizations, Networking Architectures, Cost Mgmt controls, etc.).
• Experience of Azure Governance and Best Practices (RBAC, Azure AD, Networking Architectures, Cost Mgmt controls, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of automation tools, including configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, or Chef) and infrastructure provisioning (AWS Cloud Formation, ARM Templates, or Terraform)
• Proficient in scripting languages (PowerShell / CLI).

Preferred skills:

• Expertise in Terraform infrastructure as code, understanding of scaling technologies and solutions, experience with AWS or other clouds, familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, or other container platforms, security, penetration testing and threat detection tools, and experience with ServiceNow, Datadog, Dome9, and/or Aviatrix.
• Background in DevOps, Software Development, Site Reliability, or Systems Engineering.

• Experience with configuration management and continuous deployment.
• Experience with Linux and Windows system administration.Knowledge of enterprise infrastructure solutions, including enterprise directories, on-premises hosting platforms (vSphere/Hyper-V), and datacenter storage and networking.

Required education/certifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or information systems and 8 years of technical architecture experience and relevant hands-on engineering.