InfoReliance is hiring!!!
Senior Cloud Solutions Architect (Active Secret Clearance)
Location: Washington, DC Metro Area
Requirements: US Citizenship & Minimum Secret Clearance
In order to meet the evolving needs of Federal Government, InfoReliance,
an IT Consulting company founded in 2000, invested early to develop
advanced analytics capabilities in Cloud Computing to remain competitive
and has the expertise to help our customers achieve their goals and meet
new Cloud-First mandates. Today, we stand out as a Cloud Leader.
InfoReliance is an AWS Premier Partner, AWS Managed Service Provider,
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. Additionally, InfoReliance is a
Google Partner.
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 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 to develop
advanced analytics solutions to solve real-world problems.
- Designing technical architecture for cloud analytics 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.
- 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, proposing architectures, and
implementing solutions for our client and its sub-agencies to
consume services from the cloud.
- This role will serve as an advanced analytics 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 customers 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 analytics
solutions using cloud native and third party software.
- Serve as a technical SME for big data, analytics, cloud services,
providers, and platforms.
- Act as a change agent for advanced analytics technologies and
supporting processes to maximize results measured by performance and
availability, business agility, technology freshness, and
cost optimization.
- Lead cloud application architecting/designing sessions with business
partners evaluating tradeoffs between design, risk, and technology.
- Execute prototypes and technical feasibility assessments for cloud
analytics solutions.
- Apply advanced technical knowledge and skills in developing
solutions or problem solving where complexity, innovation and
technical expertise are required.
AS PART OF THE CLOUD SOLUTION TEAM, CANDIDATE WOULD FOCUS ON SOLUTION
AND DEVELOPMENT:
- Through various communication vehicles and methods (e.g., meetings,
application demos, emails, workshops, etc.) develop, innovate and
implement technical solutions for cloud projects including high
performance computing, advanced analytics and big data.
- 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 analytics projects 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 customer
buy-in that shall include an end-to-end view of the overall
implementation approach to design and develop innovative analytics
systems with 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 of 8 years enterprise IT application experience, including
at least 3 years of architecting strategic, scalable BI, Big Data
solutions, and data analytics.
- Experience dealing with Federal government is necessary (must have,
preference given to Law Enforcement experience).
- Ability to understand “Big Data” use cases , and develop business
outcome driven use-cases and what it means for both compute and
storage resources in order to recommend the appropriate server and
storage required in a Hadoop deployment
- Hands-on with “Big Data” technologies with the Hadoop stack (e.g.
Spark,MapReduce, Hive, Streaming) and practical experience that
allows you distinguish between the implementation reality and the
hype!
- Minimum a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems
Management or similar preferred.
- Senior level with more then 10+ years of hands-on planning,
designing, and engineering enterprise class systems and services.
- Plan and establish Hadoop technology standards and usage frameworks
within the BI Department.
- Knowledge of data conversion strategy, capturing data, creating
source to target definitions for ETL/ data flow process, data
quality and data base management
- Knowledge of image processing and image analytics including video
analytics
- Knowledge of AWS and Google analytics platforms
- Work in concert with a team of ETL developers to ensure efficient
and accurate data transfer within the entire EDW echo system with
Big Data Platforms.
- Build and optimize information models, physical data layouts,
configuration, optimization and monitoring Hadoop environments and
improve overall processing efficiencies to support the needs of
the business.
- 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 certifications
(Associate or Professional) (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.
- Knowledge and experience with analytics tools and platforms
including Apache Spark, Hive, Presto, HBase, Kafka, MongoDB etc.
- 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.