Cloud Systems Architect

About the role

Cloud Systems Architect

Employment Type: Full-Time, Mid-level

Department: Information Technology

We are seeking a Cloud Systems Architect with experience with cloud infrastructure to engineer and support public, private and hybrid clouds. The ideal candidate will be proficient in a variety of cloud hosts including Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure at a minimum.

CGS brings motivated, highly skilled, and creative people together to solve the government’s most dynamic problems with cutting-edge technology. To carry out our mission, we are seeking candidates who are excited to contribute to government innovation, appreciate collaboration, and can anticipate the needs of others. Here at CGS, we offer an environment in which our employees feel supported, and we encourage professional growth through various learning opportunities.

Skills and attributes for success:

- The candidate will be knowledgeable of the most recent updates and developments and act as an advisor to our customer in reference to the cloud management strategies to be employed to take advantage of the benefits offered by cloud computing such as being able to function without any restrictions to the workload, initiate as many workstations as necessary per time period and pay only for what they actually use.

- The candidate will also work with the IT Security team to manage and maintain cloud systems security of the data and network resources.

- The candidate will also be responsible for engineering on customer premise applications and systems interconnected to cloud resources.

- Designs and defines system architecture for new or existing complex computer systems.

- Determines systems specifications, input/output processes, and working parameters for hardware/software compatibility and maintenance of system security.

- Coordinates design of subsystems and integration of total system. Identifies, analyzes, and resolves program support deficiencies.

- Develops and recommends corrective actions.

- May provide technical guidance for database administrators and software developers.

Qualifications:

- Experience with and a complete understanding of the technology required for cloud computing.

- Experience with the skills to migrate applications to the cloud.

- Be able to build relationships between the customers and the team members.

- The ability and the knowledge to integrate services and tools to any and all areas to be used such as networks and data processing.

- The ability and the knowledge to implement security information and event management to keep the customer's assets safe.

- Experience with meeting or exceeding the requirements of cloud provider service-level agreements Experience with AWS and Azure.

- Knowledge of a multitude of programming languages including Python, PHP, Java, Node and Ruby on Rails.