Job Description
Cloud Architecture, Solutions, & Engineering: Responsible for designing and developing cloud solutions in collaboration with agency cloud engineers; Acts as a subject matter expert on cloud architecture and services for a particular cloud provider
- Leads cloud architects and engineers with regards to architecture and technical implementation
- Collaborates with Cloud engineers to ensure organizational best practices are implemented across the entire cloud portfolio.
- Ensures Digital Architecture standards are applied; negotiates and documents tradeoffs with Digital Architecture as needed.
- Understand and delivers security guardrails and frameworks; upholds cloud security best practices.
- Support application rationalization, vendor interactions, and procurements for cloud services.
- Work with agencies and other stakeholders to define technical drivers for procurement activities and evaluate vendor responses.
- Participate in and drive Cloud Governance board activities.
Cloud Strategy: Develops and drives the end-to-end technical roadmap for existing and proposed cloud services and articulates impact on the broader strategy; develops innovative solutions and technical strategy.
- Understands business objectives, industry standards, and technical drivers around cloud strategy and their impact on current and future implementations of cloud; makes decisions based on these inputs.
- Provide technical oversight and guidance for infrastructure as code templates to adhere to Enterprise Architecture standards.
- Makes recommendations on new procedures and overall approach in partnership with other cloud architects; negotiates and documents tradeoffs as needed.
- Support annual cloud portfolio planning with agencies, in collaboration with Strategic Investment & Architecture team.
- Owns Azure components of annual Cloud Strategic Plan
Knowledge
- Application Architecture
- Service Design & Management
- Cloud Strategic Plan Development
- Cloud Governance
- Disaster Recovery
- Project Governance & Reporting
- Agile Project Management
- Cloud Risk and Compliance
- Security Control Design
- DevOps & DevSecOps
- Enterprise Platforms
- APIs & Containers
Agency Enablement: Responsible for providing technical oversight and guidance on all cloud services and deployable infrastructure.
- Provides technical advisory to future and existing projects and programs.
- Support buildout of financial operations reports and monitoring procedures, e.g., around resource utilization.
- Assists with provisioning of cloud services and enablement of agency usage of state IaaS and PaaS offerings.
- Works to establish guidelines, templates, best practices, and standards related to state cloud offerings.
Training and Knowledge Management: Serves as a mentor and SME to cloud architects and engineers and ideates appropriate training and education for agencies on architecture and services.
- Collaborates with HR and vendors to create: 1. training recommendations for CCoE & agencies and 2. conduct informational trainings e.g, overviews of major people, process, and tools changes.