Architect (Cloud Architect Skillset)
About the role
Do you want to support innovative clients at the intersection of cutting‑edge technologies and impactful relationships? evolv’s culture of integrity, humility, passion, and drive has been named “Best Places to Work” by Dallas Business Journal in 2021 and 2022, “Top Workplaces” by Dallas Morning News in 2023, ranked #368 on Inc. 5000’s list of fastest growing private companies in 2023 and ranked #14 on the 2024 Inc. Regionals: Southwest list of fastest growing private companies in America. We are seeking a talented and professional Architect (Cloud Architect Skillset) to join our team.
Responsibilities
- Transform innovative concepts into practical solutions and provide advanced‑level engineering design functions.
- Architect provisioning capabilities of Azure or AWS services and configure services, using tools and languages.
- Develop complex solutions from business requirements and architectural specifications; provide input to set or amend architectural specifications.
- Create presentations and seek IT management approval and acceptance of significant replacements or reconfigurations of major business systems serving the enterprise.
- Direct the construction of architecture components (e.g., data architecture, application architecture, technical architecture).
- Participate in the design of the enterprise architecture.
- Propose opportunities to improve results based on targeted or continuous assessment.
- Participate in enterprise planning activity, including vendor assessment, technology platform selection and retirement, prioritization, and integration.
- Provide operational readiness for applications that enables seamless 24x7x365 production support and technical support.
- Design performance and capacity plans and work to ensure optimal application health and performance.
- Serve as a strategist and continuously refine our AWS or Azure deployment practices for improved reliability, repeatability, and security.
- Drive effective security practices (including regular security patching, minimum‑permissions accounts and policies, encrypt everything) in compliance with healthcare and other standards regulations (such as HIPAA, HITRUST, ISO 27000, SOC), implement and verify them using tools to analyze and verify compliance.
- Design and implement Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans for on‑prem and Azure or AWS.
- Commit to best practices relating to craft/technology across multiple clients, influencing client decisions and utilizing subject‑matter expertise to create new work.
- Prioritize individual operational excellence by meeting or exceeding utilization goals (1500 billable hours).
- Contribute to evolv’s culture and personal development through internal collaboration, displaying core values, participating in internal initiatives, and obtaining new certifications approved by leadership.
- Help grow evolv by providing team‑member/client referrals and connecting with our internal network.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience with either Google Cloud, Azure, or AWS.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related software engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Production experience coding in Java.
- Experience with API management and integrations.
- Experience in application development using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud.
- Knowledge of IAM: authentication, login & SSO, AD integration.
- Knowledge of data retention and security best practices.
- Experience deploying cloud infrastructure in production.
- Experience in pipeline architecture (CI/CD).
- Experience in end‑to‑end encryption and key management.
- Experience with Sequence Diagrams, Deployment Diagrams, and State Diagrams.
- Strong understanding of DNS, ALB vs ELB use cases, HAProxy use cases and limitations, firewall configuration, API gateway use cases, WAF use cases, routing, and troubleshooting connectivity.
We believe in being inclusive of all people regardless of gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any attribute not relevant to job performance. evolv is committed to creating and maintaining a high‑performing workplace where all team members have a fair and just opportunity to contribute and are valued for their skills, experience, and authentic perspectives. EOE/M/F/D/V