State Of Michigan | Cloud Architect | Remote | Smi_Clou872_Rp

• Minimum 15 years of overall experience
• Senior Cloud Security Professional with 15+ years of experience with AWS and Azure and Application/Network Security.
• Hands-on manager with AWS, Azure, GCP security (Data Pipeline, Engineering, Networking, IoT &DevSecOps).
• Information Assurance and Cloud Security with a total of 15+ years of Software and Systems Engineering experience.

• 12+ years of experience as a Cloud Delivery Engineer / Architect.
• 12+ years of experience with Solid knowledge of concepts of designing and developing dynamic Cloud solutions and moving parts involved in continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
• 12+ years of experience with Tooling and Automation to enable seamless automation of infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
• 12+ years of experience with Pipeline Design and Architecture to improve development flow and delivery.
• 12+ years of experience of solid understanding and skill with DevOps, web services and application programming interfaces (APIs).
• 10+ years of experience with Servers, Infrastructure, Platform Sizing, and Infrastructure Cost Reduction.
• 5+ years of experience with multi-cloud governmental or large corporate environments.

• Have the Knowledge to Create, maintain, and troubleshoot skills for cloud infrastructure.
• Have knowledge of multi-cloud security and compliance experience.
• Certification(s):
  • Google Professional Cloud Architect
  • AWS Solution Architect Professional
  • Azure MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure

Responsibilities:

• Design and deliver dynamically scalable, available, fault-tolerant, reliable, and secure cloud solutions on Azure, AWS, GCP.
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Chaos engineering experience.
• Strong understanding of virtual networks and general network management functions.
• Solid knowledge of concepts of designing and developing dynamic cloud solutions.
• Solid knowledge of concepts and moving parts involved in continuous integration and delivery.
• Expert guidance to development teams regarding infrastructure.
• Interpret and provide solutions on complex technologies/architectures.
• Cloud Formation / automation / Ansible / PowerShell / DSC / Comparable Linux scripting.
• Experience equivalent to site reliability engineering, DevOps, and/or DevSecOps
• Other skills: Containerization, Linux, Database skills, security and recovery, web services and applications programming interfaces (APIs).
• Provide strategic and support representing Design Services and the State of Michigan Cloud Strategy as a Subject Matter Expert.
• Identify and prioritize critical business functions in collaboration with organizational stakeholders.
• Build and maintain relationships across organizational teams.
• Consult with vendor product specialists/sales, independent research organizations, on-site support engineers and fellow architects and administrators on best-fit technologies to ensure compliance to department policies & standards and technology roadmap.
• Coordinate with Enterprise Architecture team for technology validation or suggestions for alternative solutions. If necessary, initiate Solution Assessments, Infrastructure Service.
• Infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
• Document and Knowledge transfer; document pipeline architecture, design decisions, and setup instructions for future reference and onboarding of new team members.
• Conduct knowledge transfer sessions and provide training to relevant stakeholders to ensure a smooth transition and adoption of the infrastructure deployment pipeline.
• Requests, and any applicable required documentation to implement new technology.
• Advocate the use of emerging cyber security best practices, technologies, developing standards and procedures, promoting the usage of automated tools, developing strategies, and aligning practices with enterprise strategic initiatives.
• Lead the development of technical artifacts including Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), Detailed Technical Design, Security Architecture Plan, Services Description Document, etc.
• Produce architectural framework documents (i.e., white papers, guidance documents, best practices, technical reports, etc.).
• Leverage broad-based understanding of technology areas and end-to-end knowledge of current installations to craft architectural solutions or standards that can be applied across the enterprise.
• Define and build hypothesis around steady state behavior.
• Run experiments around real world events to define potential impact or estimate frequency.
• Tooling and Automation: Evaluate and select appropriate tools and technologies to support the infrastructure deployment pipeline. Implement and configure the chosen tools to enable seamless automation of infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
• Integrate pipelines with existing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) systems and other relevant tools.
• Enable self-service capabilities for infrastructure provisioning and promote collaboration among development and operations teams.
• Provide support and subject matter expertise with respect to adherence to best practice security framework controls and other industry-based regulatory compliance requirements (e.g., NIST 800-37, 800-53, 800-171, 800-204, 800-207, CIS, PCI, IRS-Pub 1075, CJIS, and related).
• Assist with cloud infrastructure design and develop detailed architecture models for the client to host test, development, and production environments.
• Communicate complex technical concepts to individuals of various technical ability.
• Provide performance analysis & troubleshooting.
• Design and test large-scale workload and data migrations.
• Provide direct support to technical and non-technical entities to define requirements and deliver solutions to meet organizational needs including new environment deployment, upgrades, performance tuning, testing and disaster recovery.
• Integrate cloud services with on-premises technologies from Microsoft, Dell, EMC, HP, Nutanix, Cohesity, Pure Storage, VMware, Cisco, and Rubric.