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Cloud Architect

Job Location:

Tallahassee, FL (Hybrd-3 days/week onsite);
Possibility for 100% remote for non-locals. Job Duration:
Multi-year engagement

Job Overview:
The Cloud and Systems Architect will play a key role in assisting the Office of Information Technology in the establishment, adoption, continued execution of cloud services, and the maintenance of existing legacy systems.

General responsibilities:

• Promote cultural change for cloud adoption.
• Assist in ongoing modernization and migration efforts.
• Expand upon cloud strategy and coordinate adoption.
• Architect, design, facilitate, lead, coordinate, and direct cloud initiatives on multiple fronts across a variety of disparate areas within the organization, this could include Application development;
  Data management, analytics, and protection; external IT hosting;
  Identity and access management;
  Infrastructure;
  Network;
  Security, privacy, and compliance;
  User experience.

Primary

Job Duties:

• Build and manage relationships in a matrixed environment
• Recommend and assist with the building and hosting of complex application solutions.
• Understand, deploy, and manage Microsoft Azure cloud services.
• Resolve production release issues across business and technology teams, as well as broader strategic or systemic issues that are creating inefficiencies or hindering progress.
• Enhance application and system monitoring solutions to ensure the right staff get the right alerts.
• Reviews, advises, and designs standard software and hardware builds, system options, risks, costs vs. benefits and impact on the enterprise business process and goals.
• Automate processes wherever possible.
• Create and manage Azure Dev Ops projects, git repositories, and pipelines.
• Troubleshoot development issues brought forth by developers and other architects.
• Present to your peers on findings of new technologies, enterprise-wide issues, and enhancements you have made to better the mission.

Required Experience:

• 2 – 3 years of strong professional experience as a Microsoft Azure cloud systems architect.
• 5 - 8 years of professional experience in information systems engineering or another related field is required.

Desired

Experience:

• 2 – 3 years of experience with other cloud providers, such as AWS or GCP is highly desired.
• 5 years of professional experience supporting middleware such as API Management, IT Service Automation tools, and batch job services is highly desired.
• Experience  application development in a Dev Ops environment is highly desired.
• 2 - 3 years of professional experience in administration of ESRI GIS software is highly desired.
• Microsoft Azure certification is highly desired.