Senior Cloud Architect Security Clearance

Position: Senior Cloud Architect with Security Clearance
Job Title:

Senior Cloud Architect

Clearance Required:

Public Trust – Federal Client requires US Citizenship

Work Location:

Remote We are currently seeking a Senior Cloud Architect with minimum of 15 years of industry experience to help our federal customers to modernize its systems and operations. The project is starting afresh and therefore your contribution as a driven self-starter will be key to developing and leading a successful Cloud framework. This also includes tackling the challenges of Federal security requirements while implementing the quality driven software practices to reduce manual toil.

If you like to dabble in multiple technologies and shift-left automation's and then choose just the right ones to create a unified software delivery and operations platform, please consider this opportunity.

Key Responsibilities:

* Notable experience with successfully designing, developing, and maintaining complex code and immutable Dev Sec Ops  CI/CD pipeline architecture.

* Assessment of current technology stacks of applications and providing architectural guidance and closing the gaps in offerings for AWS Cloud native migration.

* Implement Proof of Concepts to explore potential solutions to a problem.

* Conduct Architecture walkthroughs for stakeholders.

* Familiar with designing and implementing automated Dev-Ops architecture and CI/CD pipelines in AWS application for release management of development efforts and on-going production operations.

* Must have familiarity with programing languages such as:
Java, JavaScript, C# (.NET Framework and .NET Core), Mule Soft, Angular, Swift, Node.js, Spring Framework and Spring Boot, Web Services (REST and SOAP).

* Must have familiarity with cross-platform scripting languages and build tools (Python, Artifactory, Groovy, Maven, MS Build, Nexus, NuGet).

* Must have familiarity with Web Hooks, REST API, JSON, XML, SMTP and SQL Query.

* Must have ability to provide firm, clear perspective of cloud solutions to business, but also able to assure stakeholders that the cloud solutions recommended are secure, resilient, cost-efficient, and managed with operational excellence.

* Supporting and contributing to business security requirements, such as the creation of security policies, procedures, and processes.

* Ensure that all cloud solutions follow security and compliance controls.

* Provide thought leadership on cloud platform technology use, design, and implementation.

* Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to relate sophisticated topics in simple and accessible language.

* Transparent in nature for business updates and communications to share best practices and industry point of view to bring new ideas.

* Participate in Daily standup, Refinements, Demos and other ceremonies as part of a dynamic Agile Team.

Required Qualifications:

Education:

* Bachelor or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant degree
Experience/

Skills:

* Fifteen (15) years of Software Engineering and/or Cloud Services Development experience.

* Strong understanding of architectural design patterns and how to apply them in the most practical manner into an overall solution design in AWS Cloud.

* Experience in developing Dev Sec Ops  CI/CD pipeline in AWS meeting high availability, Performance, security and scalability criteria.

* Hands-on experience using compute, networking, storage, and database specific AWS services. Specially following AWS PaaS services are must - VPC, subnets, DNS, EC2, API Gateway, Lambda, S3, MSSQL, RDS, Cloud Watch, ELK, EKS, and IAM.

* Hands-on experience creating Dev Sec Ops  CICD pipelines, working on AWS infra, lots of design and architecture work with AWS services, deploying in AWS.

* Strong understanding of security tools like Sonarqube, Micro Focus Fortify, Nexus Sonatype IQ scan with a focus on automating security and compliance best practices in a Dev Sec Ops  CICD pipeline.

* Strong knowledge of API design principles and experience in designing solutions as part of a Services-Oriented-Architecture (SOA), Microservices and event driven architectures for high-availability web applications.

* Strong understanding of cloud-ready architectures that utilize…