Soft Tech Consulting is seeking a highly motivated, self-directed individual to fill the role of a Cloud Solutions Architect. The designated candidate will join a collaborative team environment, providing leadership necessary toward the successful delivery of the project deliverables and provide effective communication to all levels of staff for reporting project status.
MUST BE A US CITIZEN
MUST HAVE A U.S. FEDERALLY AUTHORIZED TOP SECRET SECURITY CLEARANCE
THE PRIMARY PLACE OF PERFORMANCE WILL BE AT NCR (WASHINGTON, DC) OR HUNTSVILLE, AL
Responsibilities Support client's leadership, prioritize increased technical agility, stability, and capability through the utilization of cloud computing technologies and services.Maximize the architectural framework concept of microservices to enable autonomous application evolution within the client's ecosystem.Deliver system and infrastructure capabilities that are scalable, secure, resilient, and maximized in terms of data sharing and exploitation.
Support cloud architectures across the AWS unclassified and classified enclaves, with a CI/CD pipeline to support deployment of services to various enclaves.Provide system platform management (Kubernetes) to include monitoring, troubleshooting of preproduction and production environments.
Manage the day-to-day operations of the cloud infrastructure, troubleshooting issues, responding to incidents, ensuring backups are operating correctly, and ensuring cost optimization.Monitor cloud environments to prevent unforeseen charges and ensure that AWS CloudWatch or equivalent service is activated, and billing alerts and alarms are enabled based on and triggered by government defined metrics.Support the migration of client's IT capabilitiess to the cloud requiring advanced knowledge of cloud infrastructure, security, networking, business analytics, and process optimization skills.Support Government cloud environments design including the selection of appropriate cloud services, defining network architecture, optimization for workload and capacity needs, and configuring security protocols to create and maintain the most efficient service while meeting all client's and industry requirements.Design, develop, deliver, and sustain cloud-based solutions that connect disparate data sources with intent to identiy possible matches and relationships.Design, develop, deliver, and sustain new and existing cloud-based software tools and subsystems to integrate new and exiting application features with back-end system and subsystem capabilities using COTS, GOTS, custom, and open-source software tools. Qualifications Bachelor's Degree.Minimum 8 years of experience.Experience with Databricks and Lakehouse architectures.Experience with AWS OpenSearch.Expertise in architect and utilization of large-scale data processing, computationally intensive statistical modeling, and advanced analytics.Experience with AWS, Splunk, Databricks, and other Oracle/SQL based platforms.
Experience with Python, Microsoft VBA, and Databricks.Experience utilizing various CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab and GitLab Runner, and Artifactory.Experience deploying and orchestrating Docker containers in cloud environments.Experience with various air-gapped Government unclassified and classified AWS region (or other cloud service provider in the future) managed services, such as Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Relational Database Service (RDS), OpenSearch, DynamoDB, and Lambda.
Experience integrating third-party components, the introduction of new custom capabilities, modification of existing code, process improvement recommendation, and automation of operations and maintenance tasks.Excellent verbal and written skills.Must be detail oriented.Able to work independently. About Us
Soft Tech Consulting, Inc. is a woman and minority-owned business headquartered in Chantilly, VA. With contracts in both the public and private sectors in the DC metro area and across the country, Soft Tech is an organization made up of highly successful and talented Information Technology professionals offering enterprise class solutions for any size organization at great value. Soft Tech’s mission is to help government organizations design, implement, and maintain mission critical Information Technology solutions. By focusing jointly on our employees and our customers, we are able to achieve our mission by providing each and every one of our customers with continuous quality customer support.
Soft Tech Consulting, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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