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Form of workJOB DESCRIPTION/MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
The Cloud Solution Architect will provide strategic guidance in the development process, make technical decisions regarding solutions.
As part of HHSC IT Applications - Social Services Applications initiatives, the worker is responsible for:
Planning and engineering of an organization's cloud computing infrastructure and application environments.
Defining standard concepts, practices, and procedures of cloud technology, including Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
Leading and ensuring that HHS best practices and methodologies are applied to the design, deployment, and operations in the cloud.
Defining and developing blueprints and roadmaps for building infrastructure solutions in the AWS cloud
Delivering solutions with adjacent technologies including Networking, Storage, Security, Identity / Access Management and Monitoring.
Delivering virtualized environments and provisioning hardware, storage, resources and managing configuration/administration, including high-availability and failover services for cloud infrastructure
Ensuring compliance with enterprise security configuration standards
Providing direct support of audit and ad hoc consulting engagements
Providing support for stabilization of Cloud environment
Working closely with other teams to ensure solutions are engineered and deployed in the AWS cloud, and to meet business objectives and regulatory requirements.
Providing AWS Cloud operational guidance both internal to the team, and for external operations teams
Investigating and providing feedback on AWS services and solutions related to the work assigned.
Providing technical oversight, review, and quality control throughout the life cycle of the implementations
Engaging with Cloud service provider around solving technical problems in the Cloud ecosystem
Implementing advanced Infrastructure as Code using CI/CD solutions
Supporting DevOps functions to best utilize cloud resources with software configuration management and continuous integration tools.
For ensuring required SLAs are achieved in Cloud.
Other duties as assigned.
Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major coursework in computer science, computer information systems, engineering, or management information systems is preferred.
Preferred Certification:
Cloud Solutions Architect Certification
Cloud Infrastructure Certifications
AWS Certifications related to DevOps, Security and Networking
