Azure Cloud Migration - Onsite in Boca Raton, FL

Azure Cloud Migration Contract Architect

Architect is a key member of the Client's Data Center Infrastructure Team. Incumbent will have advanced knowledge and experience architecting enterprise level products and platforms. This role is also responsible for evaluating and recommending tools and technologies that addresses complicated enterprise applications ecosystem problems. Incumbent must have advance knowledge of Cloud and hybrid infrastructure and applications deployment, management, and support experience.

Responsibilities:

• Interact with business unit and IT leaders to define infrastructure support initiatives and solutions for improving service efficiency and effectiveness. Translate these business requirements into functional requirements for solutioning.
• Creation and implementation of short-term and long-term data strategy roadmap to support FTE’s strategic goals.
• Evaluate and enhance FTE’s applications to work seamlessly in a single tenant on-premises and cloud architecture as well as multi-tenant SaaS architecture in compliance with State of Florida Privacy Laws, PCI-DSS standards and NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
• Ensures all infrastructure and architecture production, Disaster Recovery, other environments (Test/QA) are documented, properly vetted, and follow NIST Cybersecurity, ITIL Framework, and PCIDSS Compliance Standards.
• Work with functional teams to design/architect FTE’s applications underlying Windows, Unix/Linux, VMWare, Storage, Backup, environment to increase availability and performance.
• Analyze and enhance monitoring tools and technologies to benchmark and solve complex enterprise application performance and problem resolution.
• Develop and maintain playbooks to support and restore production, disaster recovery including cloud and hybrid environments.
• Ensure code development, updates are reviewed by leveraging automated technologies that support OWASP Top 10 and/or SANS Top 20 controls for effective cyberthreat protection.
• Gain in-depth understanding of FTE’s data management, data warehousing, data lake environments. Develop and enhance detailed documentation and process flows. Recommend processes to maximize efficiency, delivery of information.
• Work with FTE’s IT leadership to enhance and develop KPIs around availability and performance to meet the Departments’ SLA.
• Collaborate with IT team leads to understand software, applications needs in order to perform their duties regarding day-to-day maintenance/support activities. Ensure a standard is implemented and maintained for all applications (open source or otherwise) are thoroughly vetted and follow industry best practices and NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
• Collaborate with the Office of Information Technology (OIT) to ensure proper coordination of resources, shared technologies and synergy opportunities are appropriately captured and executed on.
• Perform periodic assessment of FTE Infrastructure to ensure alignment with established processes and make recommendations for improvements.
• Work closely with the Security Risk Management, Network Operations teams on FTE’s applications design/architecture requirements for throughput, bandwidth, security, and compliance requirements.

Requirements:

Education:

• Four (4) year degree or 9 10 years’ experience in a large enterprise as Infrastructure Architect.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience with architecting enterprise level products/platforms and in depth knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), microservices.
• 8 plus years of hands on experience developing database solutions design (e.g., Oracle, SQL), defining database physical structure and functional capabilities, security controls, backup, including recovery specifications.
• 9 plus years’ experience maintaining database performance by identifying and resolving production and application issues, calculating optimum values for parameters, evaluating, integrating, installing new releases, and maintenance.
• 5 plus years’ hands on experience as database architect providing and implanting cloud native solutions and building data warehouses.
• 4 plus years’ experience with monitoring and benchmarking technologies such as Solar Winds.
• Experience in Windows, Unix/Linux, Oracle, SQL, storage solutions such as EMC, Isilon, Pure including data replication between data centers and hybrid hosted environments.
• Experience in performance fine tuning and auto-scaling of large scale enterprise platforms working in B2C mode serving < 0.20 milliseconds.