Role: Cloud Architect

Location: Dimondale, MI

Required Skills:

3 - 5 years as a Senior Cloud Engineer

Solid knowledge of concepts of designing and developing dynamic Cloud solutions and moving parts involved in continuous integration and delivery (3 - 5 years)

3 - 5 years of experience guiding a development team regarding infrastructure

3 - 5 years Cloud Architecting for cloud infrastructure

3 - 5 years of experience with Servers, Infrastructure, Platform Sizing, Infrastructure Cost Reduction

Preferred Skills:

Create, maintain, and troubleshooting skills for cloud infrastructure

Cloud security experience

Chaos engineering experience

Certification: Azure – MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure

Full Job Description:

Senior Cloud Engineer – Infrastructure Job Description

Engagement:

This role will wear multiple hats assisting State of Michigan Architects to comprehend objectives, generate solutions, POC the solution, generate recommendations then implement the decisions.

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, we are looking for a candidate who will be involved in the design, implementation and management of technology based business solutions based on Cloud Services to improve our clients’ delivery approach.

This position will assist with the build out of the Microsoft Azure cloud environment and help support the SOM multi-cloud hosting solution. This professional draws on solid knowledge of the company’s cloud architecture and platform when designing and developing dynamic cloud solutions.

Contractor (staff augmentation) Resource
Sourced through MiSAM Program (Knowledge Services)
Standard 1 year engagement and 1984 hours. (Purchase Orders based on the fiscal year 10/1 - 9/30)
Possible extension beyond the 1-year standard agreement
Full time, 40 hours per week, Monday – Friday
Must be able to agree to a Hybrid work schedule with 3 days remotes and 2 days in-office at the SOM DTMB office in the Lansing Area
Contracted staff will support the development, deployment, and updating of code modules for standardizing service in Azure Cloud Services.
Azure Cloud Services is a new service for DTMB OCTO, and the skillset requires 3-5 years of experience and expertise in a wide range of supporting services. The contracted staff will also be responsible for and expected to train SoM FTEs in the service offering to enable SoM staff to transition into the role as needed.

Core Competencies

Design and deliver secure cloud solutions on Azure.
Strong understanding of Linux OS.
Chaos engineering experience
Strong understanding of virtual networks and general network management functions.
Solid knowledge of concepts of designing and developing dynamic cloud solutions.
Solid knowledge of concepts and moving parts involved in continuous integration and delivery.
Expert guidance to development teams regarding infrastructure.
Interpret and provide solutions on complex technologies/architectures.
Cloud Formation / automation / Ansible / PowerShell / DSC / Comparable Linux scripting.
Experience equivalent to site reliability engineering, DevOps, and/or DevSecOps

Core Tasks

Provide strategic and architectural support representing Design Services and the State of Michigan Cloud Strategy as a Subject Matter Expert.
Identify and prioritize critical business functions in collaboration with organizational stakeholders.
Build and maintain relationships across organizational teams.
Consult with vendor product specialists/sales, independent research organizations, on-site support engineers and fellow architects and administrators on best-fit technologies to ensure compliance to department policies & standards and technology roadmap.
Coordinate with Enterprise Architecture team for technology validation or suggestions for alternative solutions. If necessary, initiate Solution Assessments, Infrastructure Service.
Requests, and any applicable required documentation to implement new technology.
Advocate the use of emerging cyber security best practices, technologies, developing standards and procedures, promoting the usage of automated tools, developing strategies, and aligning practices with enterprise strategic initiatives.
Lead the development of technical artifacts including Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), Detailed Technical Design, Security Architecture Plan, Services Description Document, etc.
Produce architectural framework documents (i.e., white papers, guidance documents, best practices, technical reports, etc.).
Project contributor representing architecture and participates in project plan development.
Leverage broad-based understanding of technology areas and end-to-end knowledge of current installations to craft architectural solutions or standards that can be applied across the enterprise.
Define and build hypothesis around steady state behavior.
Run experiments around real world events to define potential impact or estimate frequency.
Build automation into systems to drive both orchestration and analysis.
Provide support and subject matter expertise with respect to adherence to best practice security framework controls and other industry-based regulatory compliance requirements (e.g., NIST 800-37, 800-53, 800-171, 800-204, 800-207, CIS, PCI, IRS-Pub 1075, CJIS, and related).
Assist with cloud infrastructure design and develop detailed architecture models for the client to host test, development, and production environments.
Communicate complex technical concepts to individuals of various technical ability.
Design and develop cloud cost management solutions
Provide performance analysis & troubleshooting
Design and test large-scale workload and data migrations
Provide direct support to technical and non-technical entities to define requirements and deliver solutions to meet organizational needs including new environment deployment, upgrades, performance tuning, testing and disaster recovery
Integrate cloud services with on-premises technologies from Microsoft, Dell, EMC, HP, Nutanix, Cohesity, Pure Storage, VMware, Cisco, and Rubrick.

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