Senior Cloud Architect

The Senior Cloud Architect must be able to meet the key criteria below:

1. Location: Must be located in Orlando or Rockledge, FL (50% telework)
2. Years’ Experience: 6+ years (mid, sr and SME level positions)
3. Education: Bachelors in IT related field
4. Clearance: Must be able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret Clearance
5. Work Authorization: Must be authorized to legally work in the United States
6. Key Skills:
   • Must have extensive hands on experience designing enterprise Cloud Solutions on the AWS platform
   • Must have experience designing a system for NIST compliance and supporting the A&A / ATO process
   • Must have extensive hands on experience with automation and scripting (python, bash, AWS CloudFormation)
   • Experience using Jenkins, Ansible, or other CI/CD like tools
   • AWS certification preferred

Overview

Do you want to help IBR build a portfolio of next-generation data collection systems? As a Cloud Architect at IBR, you will lead the Agile based engineering of a robust, secure, and scalable enterprise web portal solution supporting 1M users hosted in AWS. This position will work closely with IT teams to design, code, test and implement application features and capabilities for an enterprise portal built on the Liferay platform utilizing modern front end and back end methodologies hosted in AWS.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the technical leadership of a team responsible for the implementation of cloud based services using industry best practices.
• Provides technical guidance to application development and operations teams to take advantage of cloud technologies, and implement cloud infrastructure.
• Work directly with customer stakeholders to design and architect solutions in the cloud.
• Hands on implementation and design of migration efforts with application teams, including data migration.
• Works with application teams to document application internal/external interface requirements for Development, Testing, Staging and Production environments
• Works with application teams to ensure compliance with High Availability and Disaster Recovery related concept of operations.
• Works with Information Assurance teams to ensure a secure and compliant infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Previous experience migrating application teams from data center to data center and from data center to cloud.
• Familiarity with both traditional and emerging system architectures (e.g., three tier, web services, micro-services, etc.)
• Demonstrated understanding of IT management, administration, applications and system development lifecycles within a substantial IT environment.
• Application development experience preferred in one or more high-level languages.
• Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment tools and methodologies.
• Experience maintaining and administering configuration management systems such as Bitbucket
• Experience maintaining and administering software build systems such as Jenkins.
• Experience maintaining and administering artifact repository systems such as Artifactory.
• Ability to automate workflows through scripting or other technologies such as Ansible or Puppet.
• Experience determining and implementing middleware requirements.

About IBR

Imagine Believe Realize, LLC (IBR) is an emerging small business focused on delivering software and systems engineering solutions to government and commercial clients. Our talent acquisition strategy is tailored to career seeking candidates who embrace continuous learning and desire to grow as a professional in the software/systems engineering industry. We strive to enhance our team members ability to thrive in the workplace by creating a proper work/life balance and first-class benefits package that includes:

• Nationwide medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 3 weeks of paid time off
• 10 paid federal holidays
• 401k matching
• Life insurance at no cost to our employees
• Short term disability insurance at no cost to our employees
• Long term disability insurance at no cost to our employees
• Health care flex spending accounts
• Dependent care flex spending accounts
• Training opportunities
• Education assistance opportunities

IBR is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. It is our policy to offer employment opportunity to all persons without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity/transgender status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, or any other status protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. IBR does not discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

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