About the Job

This Senior Cloud Architect position will be supporting Peraton, who serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets.

Location

Onsite, Linthicum Heights, MD

The Work You’ll Do

The Senior Cloud Architect position, a crucial role in supporting the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3), is a hands-on cloud engineering position that primarily focuses on migrating workloads to the cloud. The role is pivotal in delivering infrastructure migrations to the cloud for highly sensitive information and maintaining ownership of technical and service elements related to cloud migration projects. The Senior Cloud Architect contributes to all levels of the architecture and maintains technical documentation while consulting team members on secure coding practices and developing a familiarity with new tools and best practices.

Drives the roll-out of cloud management platforms, evaluates their performance, and implements enhancements. Develops and enriches the product portfolio of cloud services and value-added services. Creates solution recommendations to include a Basis of Estimate for cloud services. Evaluates the cost/benefit of cloud vs. virtual private networks vs. dedicated hosting vs. in-house solutions and identifies portions of the organization’s IT platform/infrastructure with the highest potential return for cloud deployment. Performs operations and maintenance of secure managed cloud platform solutions. Implements and maintains automation to enhance operation, alerting, and auto-remediation of events. Develops, maintains, and deploys infrastructure as code using CI/CD pipelines.

  • Create security-driven Azure enterprise architectures, enterprise systems, and service-oriented architectures.
  • Establish and execute detailed cloud migration project plans.
  • Drive cloud consulting engagements by providing technical and business insights to cloud strategy engagements, technology and architecture, deployments, cloud migrations, and portfolio management.
  • Lead the design and implementation of PaaS/IaaS services, constructs, and deployment methods using containerization, database-as-a-service, storage, and infrastructure automation.
  • Provide expertise in architecture and design of services and systems in support of the various customer applications through the organization and its security.
  • Participate in technical project review meetings to ensure technical designs meet the client’s operational requirements and infrastructure/security standards.
  • Educate and influence stakeholders and engineering teams on effective cloud solutions and best practices.

What You’ll Bring 

  • BS and 12+, MS and 10+, PhD and 7+ years relevant experience.
  • 3+ years of experience in Microsoft Azure Government.
  • Active Secret clearance (TS/SCI preferred)
  • One or more Cloud Certifications: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Administrator Associate, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional/Associate.
  • Experience in architecture of flexible, scalable, and highly-available systems.
  • Experience with containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, AKS, EKS).
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (TerraForm, ARM templates, CloudFormation templates).
  • Experience using DevOps concepts and tools (GitLab, JIRA, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Ansible).
  • Familiarity with DoD IT processes, regulations, and current IT cloud initiatives.

 

Salary Range

$150,000 – $174,000

 

Our Approach

At SecureStrux, we are committed to core values that guide the way we work with one another and our clients. As a team member, you will Create Team Synergy, Drive Continuous Innovation, Deliver with Integrity, and have the Freedom to Own it. Our thriving company culture supports our employees as they seek to grow with us!

What We Offer

Between our virtual environment where you can evaluate recent technologies and enhance your skills, and a generous annual professional development stipend, you will join a team that enjoys working on leading-edge technologies for world-class clients. We offer a robust total compensation package that includes comprehensive health benefits to support you and your family, flexible time off, continuing education allowance, a donation allowance for charitable causes, and a matched 401k.

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Employment Types: Full-time
Work Arrangements: On-site
Locations: Maryland

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