Cloud Integrations Solutions Architect; Remote From

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The Cloud Integrations Solutions Architect will act as a senior Subject Matter Expert (SME) and technical authority within the Office of Information Technology (OIT). You will be responsible for designing, architecting, and supporting mission-critical, secure, and highly efficient cloud hosting and enterprise-class platforms and solutions across the agency. As an integral leader, you will participate in the development and formulation of plans, policies, standards, and programs in the areas of secure multi-tenant cloud hosting services and the Service Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of those services.

• Establishing scalable cloud hosting standards, policies, and SDLC frameworks to ensure secure, uniform multi-tenant service delivery across the enterprise. Outcome:
  Standardized, secure, and compliant cloud operations across all agency teams.
• Architecting and delivering robust IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and DBaaS solutions to maximize system performance, uptime, and operational cost-efficiency. Outcome:
  High-performance, reliable, and cost-optimized digital infrastructure.
• Executing seamless hybrid-cloud migrations and deploying enterprise shared hosting services to reduce legacy infrastructure costs and modernize agency workloads. Outcome:
  Modernized digital services with reduced technical debt and lower operational overhead.
• Accelerating software delivery cycles and harden environment reliability by embedding Dev Sec Ops , cloud orchestration, and immutable infrastructure practices across teams. Outcome:
  Faster, safer software releases with increased system stability and security.
• Standardizing and promoting reusable architecture and deployment patterns and CI/CD pipelines to shorten release cycles, eliminate redundant development, and improve deployment consistency. Outcome:
  Streamlined development processes and consistent, high-quality application deployments, enabling delivery teams to move faster, rather than creating gated governance that slows them down.
• Adopting a product-lifecycle approach to cloud services—measuring success not by 'go-live' dates, but by user feedback, system reliability, and actual business outcomes for agency partners.
• Resolving high-level multi-tenant engineering bottlenecks to ensure seamless, secure interoperability across agency systems. Outcome:
  Frictionless system integration and improved operational agility.
• Translating strategic product roadmaps into production-ready cloud architectures through lifecycle analysis with product and operations leaders. Outcome:
  Architectures…