Infrastructure Solutions Architect 5

Overview:

Years of Experience: 13+ years of experience in the field.

Job Description: Experience in architecting advanced infrastructure solutions which may not be widely used or are new to the industry, including the ability to mentor other staff in the use of the specialty technologies and make recommendations on the use of the specialty technologies and integration within the organization's architecture.

• Must be proficient at the techniques that go into the formulation of architectures, including requirements discovery and analysis, application of abstraction, formulation of solution context, solution alternatives identification and assessment, technology selection, and architectural configuration. Extensive understanding and experience in technology areas for Mainframe and Distributed platforms, networking, databases, High Availability/Disaster Recovery, and IT security.

• Ability to work closely with client/application architects, senior managers, and project managers to design and assist with the implementation of the solutions infrastructure related components. Demonstrated ability to work independently and complete assigned project responsibilities under limited supervision. Experience and skills in prevailing industry architecture and engineering methodologies such as ITIL. Knowledge of and experience with a broad range of application servers, web servers, messaging servers, database servers, and related technologies. Able to analyze business requirements and define solutions to address complex business needs. Experience in web infrastructure design and operations including IP, FTP, load balancing, clustering, failover, monitoring, diagnostics, performance tuning, etc. Possess high aptitude for problem-solving and trouble-shooting.

Required/Desired Skills

Skill Required/Desired Amount of Experience Unix System Administration Highly desired 5 Years Experience in creation, maintenance, and execution of system/administrative scripts such as Bash, Python, Power Shell Required 7 Years Experience with creation of scripts in Ansible to automate software provisioning, configuration management and application deployment Required 2 Years Experience in deploying and administering storage hardware or logical storage arrays Required 7 Years Experience working in a Devops or Secops capacity in a 1000+ server environment Required 7 Years Experience with working with CICD, containers, Docker, Kubernetes and/or OpenShift deployments and support Required 2 Years Experience installing, configuring, and administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux Required 7 Years Experience resolving intermediate issues with Configuration Management and Networking concepts Required 7 Years Experience in performing security testing such vulnerability assessments or penetration tests to identify security misconfigurations or vulnerable sof Required 7 Years Experience in remediating security issues identified by vulnerability assessments or penetration tests Required 7 Years Ability to design, implement and operate systems with adherance to industry compliance such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA, ISO and identify policy violations Required 7 Years

Questions

Description Question 1 Absences greater than two weeks MUST be approved by CAI management in advance, and contact information must be provided to CAI so that the resource can be reached during his or her absence. The Client has the right to dismiss the resource if he or she does not return to work by the agreed upon date. Do you accept this requirement? Question 2 Please list candidate's email address that will be used when submitting E-RTR. Question 3 For any potential candidate in need of work authorization/verification, please be advised that by order of the SOM Attorney General's office, CAI and suppliers cannot request letters from the State of Michigan, and SOM managers cannot and will not sign any supplier letter(s) directly. If you require a template letter with engagement specifications for any potential H1 filing(s), please contact the CAI Contract Managers. Do you accept this requirement? Question 4 Please submit a paragraph in the Summary of Qualifications that includes: Background information on your candidate, why your candidate is a good fit, why they want to work for the State of Michigan/want to come to Lansing, etc. Question 5 Max vendor rate is $156.15. Please confirm. Question 6 Webcam interviews to take place the week of 7/27/20.

Skills:

Solution Architecture