Cloud Infrastructure Architect - Eliassen Group

We have an exciting opportunity for a Cloud Infrastructure Architect with our industry-leading client in Washington DC.

Due to federal security clearance requirements, applicant must be a United States Citizen or Permanent Resident with the ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance

Rate: $95 - $99 / hr. w2

Oversee all cloud migration and cloud O&M efforts for growing cloud team in support of large Federal agency. Direct and prioritize team efforts. Provide strategic vision recommendations to Government customer cloud lead.

Familiarity with both Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure cloud offerings and infrastructure strongly desired.

Job Role Specific Requirements:

Provide technical, managerial, and administrative direction to a team of 14 cloud engineers for planning and completing operational tasks as well as tasks aligned to strategic initiatives across the enterprise.

Lead a team of cloud engineers in the strategy, design, implementation, and maintenance of DOT’s cloud infrastructure.

Work with stakeholders to gather requirements and define the scope of cloud projects.

Develop and implement cloud solutions that meet the needs of the DOT mission.

Monitor and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure to ensure uptime and performance.

Stay up-to-date on the latest cloud computing technologies and trends.

Mentor and develop cloud engineers to ensure the team is well-equipped to meet DOT’s needs.

Communicating status with agency senior leadership.

Collaborate with other infrastructure teams to realize operational efficiencies within the agency cloud offering.

Working with vendors to identify potential approaches and rationalizing solution best fit for agency environment.

Work with business customers to understand and align technical needs to agency cloud capabilities and facilitate technical exchanges to achieve a final solution architecture.

15 years minimum experience within information technology architecting and implementing solutions (solutions cover initiatives such as deployment of business applications, deployment of enterprise tools, etc.)

Demonstrated understanding of principles supporting compute, network, storage, and their application within the cloud (AWS and/or Azure).

Demonstrated understanding of application architectures (web tier, application tier, database tier) and their implementation in the cloud.

Deep understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices for sustaining an enterprise cloud environment.

Demonstrated understanding of security best practices and their application as they relate to cloud-based environments and workloads (access management, monitoring, configuration management, etc.)

Understanding of DevSecOps pipelines and toolsets and how they can work to create an enterprise shared service.

Deep understanding of enterprise architecture principles and practices with the ability to identify, rationalize, and solution opportunities for improvement.

Ability to prioritize, balance, and direct team member activities between ad-hoc tasking and planned initiatives.

Experience in developing, planning, and implementing strategic initiatives within a roadmap.

Desired skills:

ITIL v3/v4 certification.

Demonstrated experience leading a team.

Familiarity with agile planning methodologies

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company for human-powered solutions. For over 30 years, Eliassen has helped thousands of companies reach further and achieve more with their technology solutions, financial, risk & compliance, and advisory solutions, and clinical solutions. With offices from coast to coast and throughout Europe, Eliassen provides a local community presence, balanced with international reach. Eliassen Group strives to positively impact the lives of their employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which they operate.

Eliassen Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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