InfoReliance is hiring!!!
Senior Cloud Solution Architects
Location: Falls Church, VA
Requirements: US Citizenship + Active Secret Clearance
What You Will Be Doing
- Responsible for collaborating on and setting cloud vision; providing
thought leadership in cloud infrastructure and cloud services
architecture to meet client's strategic and operational objectives
for cloud solutions
- Consulting with our clients as a cloud technology evangelist around
Cloud technologies including IaaS, SaaS, PaaS,
Public/Hybrid/Community Cloud Service Provider offerings, cloud
management tools, and converged infrastructure.
- Developing cloud adoption roadmap via assessment of clients’ current
application portfolio and technology stack
- Designing technical architecture for cloud solutions that meet
customer needs for scalability, reliability and performance.
- Overseeing the team that will be deploying cloud solutions and
technologies across a range of industries and solutions.
- Identifying new cloud technologies and platforms to help solve
technical challenges or limitations in the existing infrastructure.
- Participating in business requirement gathering sessions, gathering
user data requirements, understanding the user requirements, and
assisting in the reconciliation of technical and business
requirements as they relate to the cloud.
InfoReliance is an AWS Premier Partner and AWS Approved Reseller. We are
also a certified Microsoft Cloud Deployment Partner and regularly team
with MCS to offer customers total confidence in migration to Office 365.
InfoReliance is also member of the Microsoft Azure Circle partner
program, able to assist customers in adopting IaaS and PaaS cloud
solutions.
WE NOW HAVE AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY FOR A SENIOR CLOUD SOLUTIONS
ARCHITECT-SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT TO JOIN OUR TEAM
- Responsible for collaborating on and setting cloud vision; providing
thought leadership in cloud infrastructure, cloud adoption, and
cloud services architecture to meet client's operational objectives
for cloud solutions.
- Consulting with our clients as a cloud technology evangelist around
Cloud technologies including IaaS, SaaS, PaaS,
Public/Hybrid/Community Cloud Service Provider offerings, cloud
management tools, and converged infrastructure.
- Designing technical architecture for cloud solutions that meet
customer needs for scalability, reliability and performance.
- Identifying new cloud technologies and platforms to help solve
technical challenges or limitations in the existing infrastructure.
- Providing technical sales support.
- Participating in business requirement gathering sessions, gathering
user data requirements, understanding the user requirements, and
assisting in the reconciliation of technical and business
requirements as they relate to the cloud.
- The Senior Cloud Solution Architect is responsible, with our
established team of SMEs, change managers, integration engineers,
system engineers and business analysts, for discovery and assessment
of the current environment and for architecting business enabling
solutions for our client and its sub-agencies to consume services
from the cloud.
- This role will serve as a solution architect providing strategic and
technical leadership for client teams migrating, developing, or
enriching applications in the cloud.
- The Senior Cloud Solution Architect is responsible for supporting
multiple business units within InfoReliance to evaluate customers’
current and anticipated needs, develop innovative solutions, support
technical proposals, develop architectures, and evaluate cloud
implementations according to industry best practices and standards.
Essential Responsibilities
- Provide thought and technical design leadership to cloud adoption
and cloud solutioning.
- Serve as a technical SME for cloud services, providers,
and platforms.
- Act as a change agent for technologies and supporting processes to
maximize results measured by performance and availability, business
agility, technology freshness, and cost optimization.
- Lead cloud application architecting sessions with business partners
evaluating tradeoffs between design, risk, and technology.
- Execute prototypes and technical feasibility assessments for
cloud solutions.
- Apply advanced technical knowledge and skills in developing
solutions or problem solving where complexity, innovation and
technical expertise are required.
- Act as expert cloud consultant to internal IR business units as well
as to IR clients.
As part of the Cloud Solution team, you will be focused on solution and
development, inclusive of:
- You will lead and facilitate information gathering sessions with
multiple departmental and/or sub-agency heads and technical leaders
to discover and assess the current state infrastructure, validate
business cases, gather and document business and
functional objectives.
- Through various communication vehicles and methods (e.g., meetings,
application demos, emails, workshops, etc.) develop, innovate and
implement technical solutions for multiple cloud projects including
migration of existing applications/capabilities and users, and/or
provision of new applications/capabilities and users.
- Engage with the client to secure buy-in for the adoption of
cloud-based solutions, through workshops and briefs as necessary.
- Recommend technology strategy by understanding key client
objectives; diagnosing and mapping client requirements; articulating
solution risks and barriers; recommending delivery approaches;
preparing time estimates; planning full project life cycle.
- Develop, contribute, and evaluate technical proposals related to
cloud migrations and implementations.
- Provide expertise to construct the architecture and solutions to
support current and future business needs, and to ensure the
successful implementation and adoption of service.
- Develop and implement activities, such as but not limited to,
sequencing, architecture, assumptions, dependencies and agency
buy-in that shall include an end-to-end view of the overall
implementation approach to migrate current and future systems and
users to cloud platform services.
- Throughout the projects you will participate in status meetings on
progress, priorities, issues, performance issues, and future work.
In order to be successful in this role, we expect that qualified
candidates will have the following skills, experience, and credentials:
- Minimum 3-5 years of hands-on experience building cloud
infrastructure/systems with at least one of the three major cloud
service providers (Azure; AWS and Google).
- Experience dealing with Federal government is a must.
- Minimum a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems
Management or similar preferred.
- Senior level architect with more then 10+ years of hands-on
planning, architecting, and engineering enterprise class systems
and services.
- In depth knowledge and hands on experience with the full range of
cloud service providers/solutions, inclusive of AWS and Microsoft
Azure offerings.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solutions Architect certification (or
demonstrated ability and willingness to achieve certification
shortly after hire).
- Must have proven success in consulting to CTO-level clients.
- Proven experience in assessment, evaluation, and documentation of
client environment, infrastructure, processes, and operations.
- Proven experience in communicating and demonstrating the value of
cloud solutions to a variety of stakeholders to address complex and
competing drivers in complex technical environments, with a track
record of buy-in and successful implementation, migration, change
management, and full adoption.
- Proven ability to lead change across large platforms using
innovative technology solutions with federal government and
commercial sectors.
- Demonstrated abilities in strategic thinking and leadership with
strong relationship management ability.
- Demonstrated experience automating production cloud workloads.
- Demonstrated Hands on experience developing solutions with cloud
orchestration tools.
- Strong scripting skills (Python, Ruby, Perl, Bash, Powershell, etc.)
- Strong knowledge of IP Networking including VPC's, VPN's, VRF, DNS,
load-balancing, and firewalls.
- Demonstrated experience with the Software Development Lifecycle.
- Understanding of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA and REST).
- Proven ability to lead change across large platforms / functional
areas using innovative technology solutions.
- Demonstrated customer focus.
- Strong analytical and strong real problem solving skills (not on
paper only).
- Communicates clearly and effectively evaluates information to
make decisions.
- Must have previous and strong experience in presentation
and writing.
- Anticipates risks and obstacles and develops plans for mitigation.
- Creates actionable strategies and operational plans.
- Champions and drives change initiatives.
- Confronts difficult problems in a positive and creative way.
- Balances multiple and competing priorities and executes accordingly.
- Have prior experience in writing proposals.
- Have working experience in envisioning, documenting and
pricing solutions.
For over 17 years, InfoReliance has delivered technology solutions
across the federal, commercial and public sector markets. Our mission is
to solve complex business problems for our customers through innovative
and cost-optimized technology solutions. InfoReliance is a provider of
IT consulting and services that may include cloud computing, software
engineering, and cybersecurity solutions.
InfoReliance is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All
qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without
regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color,
religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or
any other characteristic protected by law. InfoReliance is committed to
providing equal employment opportunity to all job seekers. If you are an
individual with a disability unable to use our online tools to search
and or apply for jobs, please call 703-246-9360 and provide your contact
information for Recruiting Department Manager, or send specific email to
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