Infrastructure Architect, Cloud

Infrastructure Architect, Cloud  #860

Clearance: U.S. Citizenship is required. Must be must be able to obtain a public trust clearance. 

Dev Technology Group is looking for an experienced Infrastructure Architect to support both Operations & Maintenance (O&M) and new development efforts for a federal government client. The ideal candidate will have relevant architecture experience, strong collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills, and an innovative mindset. This is a great opportunity to work on mission-critical systems that provide clear value to end users and our federal government clients.

What You'll Be Doing:

The Infrastructure Architect will have overall responsibility for planning, designing, assembling, and overseeing program systems. Key responsibilities include:

• Assessing existing cloud resources, determining any changes that may be needed to improve system performance, and making recommendations.
• Providing guidance to engineers and developers on the team based on best practices to ensure the infrastructure continues to support fluctuating demands.
• Working with the government IT operations and other teams to develop strategies and action plans for implementing upgrades and integrations to program applications.

Required Education, Experience, and Skills: 

• Bachelor’s degree with eight (8) or more years of relevant experience in an Enterprise IT environment OR No Bachelor’s Degree with ten (10) or more years of relevant experience in an Enterprise IT environment.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Excellent active listening skills
• Ability to discuss technical issues with non-technical, executive-level government officials
• Ability to problem-solve and develop solutions to complex business needs

Preferred Education, Experience, and Skills:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional.
• DevSecOps pipeline tools including configuration management, requirements (e.g. JIRA), automated testing, automated deployments (CI/CD pipelines), blue green deployments, and branching strategy and implementation.
• Designing and implementing Cloud-based AWS solutions.
• Applying The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) in Agile solution designs to minimize technical debt and improve overall velocity.
• Designing logical and network diagrams.
• Migrating applications from AWS Commercial Cloud to FedRamp Approved Gov Cloud.
• Outlining evaluation benchmarks for system performance assessments.
• Implementing technical architecture standards based on industry best practices.
• Engaging stakeholders, understanding their needs, and translating those needs into a minimum viable product.
• Providing advice to project teams around technical solutions, best practices, and efficiencies.
• Reviewing environments to detect deficiencies, recommending, planning, and implementing solutions for improvement.
• Providing leadership for strategic planning or complex problem solving for programs and projects including the creation, maintenance, and governance of roadmaps.
• Performing functional allocation to identify required tasks and their interrelationships.
• Leading the development, implementation of robust, quantitative technology evaluation processes.
• Documenting performance criteria and testing strategies, quantifying results, trade-offs and recommendations using a data-driven approach to support conclusions.
• Reviewing design documents to ensure that they follow the industry and Government standards.
• Presenting architecture design documents to the client and revising based on client feedback to obtain client approval.
• Maintaining awareness and expertise of the latest cloud and infrastructure, orchestration, and automation visualization technologies to proactively support the adoption of beneficial new capabilities.
• Interacting and collaborating with specialists to successfully migrate applications and data to the cloud.
• Driving innovation and improving performance of the applications in scope.
• Providing recommendations and implementing ways to modernize technology to meet business demands in a cost-effective manner.

Who We Are

Dev Technology is a growing IT company with an employee-centric culture that works on mission-critical projects for the federal government. We partner with our federal customers to deliver technology services and solutions, and to drive our client’s missions forward through innovation. We use Agile and DevSecOps principles to provide services including application development, biometrics and identity management, cloud and infrastructure optimization, IT and legacy modernization, and data management.   

As a Washington Post Top Workplace award winner for the past ELEVEN years in a row, the Top Workplaces USA for the past three years, and a recipient of the Companies As Responsive Employers (CARE) Award for the past four years, Dev Technology employees enjoy:   

• Generous and flexible time-off policy
• Flexible work schedules and telework options, including remote work availability for eligible projects
• Career development opportunities including a mentorship program, technical and management training through Dev University, hands-on learning through DevLab, tuition reimbursement, and paid training opportunities
• Industry-leading benefits including a choice of two health plans that include dental and vision, flexible spending account, commuter benefits, life insurance, and more
• 401K matching with a 5% matching contribution
• Regular team and company social events including our annual party, happy hours, fitness challenges, and more  
• A focus on community engagement including company wide support activities, employer match for donations, and time off for volunteer efforts
• To learn more about working at Dev Technology visit, Working At Dev Technology Group

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