Cloud Architect Sr - E3

About the role

Oversees a company's cloud computing strategy, including cloud application design, cloud management & monitoring. Develops and implements product development strategies using agile development processes to meet business requirements. Delivers IT solutions as platform virtualization (PaaS), or as an application for customers for use as a service on demand (SaaS); or infrastructure/resources (IaaS). Analyze complex environments, design & communicate and pragmatic architectures. Oversees development of conceptual, logical or physical hardware / software designs. Works with dynamic languages such as Python, Bash, Perl, Java, Powershell, etc.

Basic Qualifications

• Substantial OOP experience building enterprise level applications with well established patterns
• Knowledge and experience developing multi-tiered or microservice applications
• Experience with at least one cloud platform (ie. AWS, Azure, Google)
• Containerization experience (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools (GitLab CI, Jenkins)
• Strong scripting experience
• Linux experience
• Active Top Secret clearance needed to apply with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI to start

Desired Skills

• Experience supporting US government agencies
• Experience using Amazon Web Services
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, CloudFormation
• Deploying and maintain Kubernetes distributions
• Familiarity with GitOps (GitLab, ArgoCD)
• Monitoring & Logging experience (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK Stack)
• SDLC: Understanding the full Software Development Life Cycle
• Networking: Basic networking, security, & firewall concepts
• Security: DevSecOps principles, identity & access management
• Automation: Scripting & building automated pipelines
• Proficient in AI prompting as it applies to this position and practice

Pay

Full-Time Salary Range: $110,300.00 - $204,900.00

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10)
• 401(k) match
• Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave
• EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts
• Education Assistance
• Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability
• Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position

Schedule

For Washington state applicants only: Non-represented full-time employees accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.