Providge is seeking a motivated Intermediate Cloud Architect to join the team to support operations, maintenance, and enhancement of the platform. The Integrated Research and Analytics Platform (IRAP) is a cloud-based Data and Analytics platform that provides seamless data management and analytics experience that allows researchers the ability to search data catalogs, access data, and collaborate with others.
Responsibilities:
· Maintain IRAP Platform by identifying, analyzing, and resolving any emergent vulnerabilities in a timely fashion.
· Perform any required version upgrades to the tool stack used by the platform.
· Perform required monthly maintenance activities such as upgrading servers to use the latest version of Gold AMI, performing patches, testing the platform after maintenance etc.
· Perform security monitoring to maintain the ATO of the IRAP platform.
· Perform activities required to update the ATO of IRAP to host restricted datasets.
· Enhance capabilities of IRAP in collaboration with Board Data Architects, Cloud
· Administrators, and other stakeholders.
· Ensure the IRAP platform is in sync with the IaC Terraform code in the code repository.
· Monitor cloud resource consumption and alert leadership if the resource usage exceeds set limits.
· Identify opportunities for cloud cost savings. Ensure optimized use of AWS resources within IRAP by rightsizing, optimizing, and reengineering the infrastructure.
· Identify and manage external dependencies for platform enhancement efforts to ensure timely delivery of enhancements.
· Perform development of cloud infrastructure using Terraform and deploy infrastructure to production after successful completion of comprehensive testing.
· Perform IRAP platform user administration activities including but not limited to onboarding and provisioning new users, addressing, and resolving user inquiries, concerns, and issues.
Required Qualifications:
· Minimum of five (5) years of experience with integration, systems analysis, or programming experience within Cloud environments.
· Minimum of (5) years of experience developing systems requirements and design specifications.
· At least seven (7) years’ demonstrated experience in developing software according to software development lifecycles (SDLCs), including DevOps, Agile, Lean, Iterative, or Waterfall.
· At least seven (7) years’ demonstrated experience in designing, deploying, and migrating secure and maintainable systems for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) environments.
· At least seven (7) years’ demonstrated experience in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and related best practices for cloud deployment.
· At least seven (7) years’ demonstrated experience in experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or ServiceNow.
· Proficient in at least one high-level programming languages such as Python, Ruby, or Go.
· At least seven (7) years’ experience performing system administration activities including patching, upgrading, and maintenance Windows and Linux servers.
· At least three (3) years’ experience building AWS Infrastructure using Terraform.
· At least five (5) years’ experience using Agile software development methodologies.
· At least three (3) years’ experience building CI/CD pipelines, preferably using Azure DevOps or
· Gitlab.
· Familiarity with government cloud deployment regulations/compliance policies such as FedRAMP, FISMA, etc.
· Five (5) years’ experience designing, building, and maintaining Cloud infrastructure in AWS.
Education:
· Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Business Administration Science, Mathematics, or Engineering.
Citizenship
· US Citizen or Green card
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
· Understanding of and ability to evaluate new technologies for fit in current infrastructure architecture.
· Understanding of cloud-based architectures, web servers, caching, application servers, load balancers, and storage.
· Familiarity with loose coupling, stateless systems, and best practices for designing cloud-ready applications.
· Understanding of cloud federation technologies such as SAML, OAuth, and OpenID Connect and how to apply these technologies to enterprise and public-facing applications.
· Awareness of cloud information security risks and best practices, especially in highly secure operating environments.
· Experience transitioning legacy systems to cloud-ready architecture.
· Experience with route tables, access control lists, firewalls, NAT, HTTP, DNS, IP, and OSI Network.
· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to effectively interact with stakeholders of varying levels of technology acumen.
· Knowledge of FISMA security review and ATO process
· Experience acquiring an in-depth understanding of large complex software systems to isolate defects, reproduce defects, assess risk, and understand varied customer deployments.