Lead Cloud Solutions Architect
General Dynamics
- Rockville, MD
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Leading a team of DevOps/SecOps Engineers to architect cloud-based solutions with the responsibility to ensure the customer maintains an overall cohesive integration with itself, partner systems, and solutions
- Supporting and advising on application assessment, migration, and modernization
- Providing machine-learning capabilities to monitor spikes, drops in usage, as well as lead discussions similar to well architected reviews
- Providing recommendations to optimize Cloud usage costs by analyzing usage patterns and trends while providing recommendations for consolidating instance types based on demand across all billing accounts
- Creating assessments that include cloud deployment type (public/hybrid), cloud tier (AWS, Azure, and Google), OS, COTS, codebase, database, cloud services, application dependencies, disaster resilience requirements
- Designing cloud infrastructure, virtual private cloud, virtual private network, relational database services, auto scaling, and computing resources to meet customers’ requirements
- Maintaining an understanding of advancing cloud capabilities, IT, and business needs, while identifying and proposing cost and functional efficiency options for the customer’s collaborative decisions and actions
- Creating and maintain a roadmap of customer enhancements according to the customer’s decisions and directions
- Delivering end-to-end cloud architecture solutions
- Providing expertise in high availability, contingency planning, and automated provisioning.
- Collaborating with enterprise architecture team and other stakeholders to determine enterprise tools, technologies, and processes.
- Supporting the development of open architectures and applications, infrastructure, and cloud platforms to ensure they are best suited for Cloud deployment and consumption.
- Driving the organization towards Cloud best practices and supporting technologies to enable such capabilities as DevSecOps, Big Data/Analytics, AI, Cloud scalability, and Micro-Services.
- Architect, design, develop, troubleshoot, and implement cloud solutions across a hybrid cloud platform
- Strong understanding of the CI/CD pipeline including implementation of Infrastructure as Code.
- Working closely with the Information Technology Security team to ensure the applications and solutions designed and deployed are secure and compliant.
- Effectively interfacing with customer personnel at varying organizational levels
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline
- This position requires a minimum of 15 years progressive experience in working within a DevSecOps/DevOps environment, utilizing cloud services, solutions, and provisioning/automating infrastructure, services and tools
- Strong organizational and interpersonal skills, and demonstrated experience working with senior level stakeholders and development teams
- Strong communication skills, both orally and in writing to convey cloud technologies and solutions to all levels of customer personnel
- Expertise in developing, maintaining, and contributing to technical and process documentation.
- Must have or be able to obtain a security clearance
- Experience managing/implementing server/clients with Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Platforms and Federation Services
- Experience using a source code repository such as BitBucket, Mercurial, GIT, or Subversion
- Experience with Agile development methodologies
- Certified Solutions Architect Associate certification from one of the major Cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google)
- Must hold one or more of the following: Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), CompTIA Cloud+, MS Azure, AWS, GCP, Oracle Cloud certifications
- VCP, CCNA, CISSP preferred
- Full-flex work week
- 401K with company match
- Challenging work that makes a real impact on the world around you
- Diverse, highly collaborative teams