What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Architect position at Vector Consulting, Inc?
Job Description
Our Government client is looking for an experienced Cloud Architect on a hybrid 12 months renewable contract role in Nashville, TN.
Position: Cloud Architect
The Cloud Infrastructure Architect Systems will serve as a cloud subject matter expert and trusted advisor providing technical support and architectural guidance to leadership, business partners and internal teams. Agency is responsible for providing high availability, performance, and support to the timely coordination and provision of health care services. The Cloud Infrastructure Architect is responsible for advanced technology architecture, engineering, and administration. This role oversees all system related activities including the delivery of comprehensive strategies that enable infrastructure transformation, defining policy, managing priorities, infrastructure provisioning, managing budget, and ensuring that service delivery is on time, on budget and of maximum quality. The Information Systems Tech Consultant will accommodate the design, development, implementation, and delivery of critical services necessary to support the most vulnerable citizens. The IS Tech Consultant will be overseeing be responsible for validating the program activities, ensuring the operational requirements are adhered to, as well as being a subject matter expert for cloud infrastructure related items along with and understanding of networking and firewall rules.
Duties & Responsibilities
1. Define enterprise (Public, Private and Hybrid) cloud strategies for cloud adoption, cloud application design, and cloud management and monitoring.
2. Identify the top cloud architecture solutions to successfully meet the strategic needs of the company.
3. Work on cloud solutions across a diverse range of projects, which can include application development, identity/access management, network, and data management.
4. Engage and manage stakeholders for the purposes of gathering feedback and offering guidance.
5. Respond to technical issues in a professional and timely manner.
6. Identify dependencies and common infrastructure components, and to assess migration feasibility and develop migration roadmap.
7. Offer guidance in techniques including bulk application transfers into the cloud, deployment of Greenfield and Brownfield applications to cloud environments.
8. Demonstrate leadership ability to back decisions with research and the “why,” and articulate several options, the pros and cons for each, and a recommendation.
9. Effectively manages day to day activities across multiple projects.
10. Strong ability to see the 'big picture' and able to implement strategies that align for success in meeting agency goals.
11. Fosters collaboration with vendors, technical teams and business customers by listening to concerns and needs. With this understanding, as well as the agency environment (architectural, political, structural), research and propose more cost effective, efficient, and maintainable new solutions and approaches to business and technical problems.
12. Analyzes existing practices and technologies to isolate areas ripe for improvement or enhancement.
Minimum Qualifications:
1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or relevant field.
2. 7 years' experience designing, executing, and supporting IT cloud solutions.
3. Comprehensive experience with at least one of: Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform Cloud products and architecture / delivery of solutions in this space.
4. At least one large migration project (At least started though they may be in-progress).
5. Experience in a broad set of technologies related to applications and IT infrastructure
6. Effective communication skills (written and verbal) to properly articulate complicated cloud reports to management and other IT development partners.
7. Experience with vendor management.
8. Experience working in a healthcare environment preferred.
9. Substitution of experience for education: Experience equivalent to fifteen (15) or more years of qualifying professional experience in positions associated with designing/architecting IT solutions or systems, designing and/or implementing Cloud Infrastructure, managing IT projects, managing Cloud Infrastructure, and managing teams.
Desirable qualifications:
Great communication skills and able to manage multiple projects and teams Implemented solutions in Amazon Web Services (AWS), Private Cloud and/or Azure Cloud as well as other cloud solutions. Required / Desired Skills:
| Skills | Qualification | Competency |
| Skills | AGILE - Agile Development Methodology | Proficient (4-6 Years) |
| Skills | AWS-CSA Professional (cloud) | Proficient (4-6 Years) |
| Skills | Azure Cloud | Proficient (4-6 Years) |
| Skills | Esri JavaScript API | Proficient (4-6 Years) |
| Skills | Experience building and configuring workloads | Proficient (4-6 Years) |
| Skills | Google Cloud Platform | Proficient (4-6 Years) |
| Skills | Large Migration Projects | Proficient (4-6 Years) |
| Skills | Bachelor's Degree | Novice (1-3 Years) |
| Skills | Backup and recovery | Proficient (4-6 Years) |
| Skills | Communication skills both verbal and written | Proficient (4-6 Years) |
About Vector:
Vector Consulting, Inc., (Headquartered in Atlanta) is an IT Talent Acquisition Solutions firm committed to delivering results. Since our founding in 1990, we have been partnering with our customers, understanding their business, and developing solutions with a commitment to quality, reliability and value. Our continuing growth has been and continues to be built around successful relationships that are based on our organization's operating philosophy and commitment to ** People, Partnerships, Purpose and Performance - THE VECTOR WAY
