Senior Cloud Architect

About the role

Everforth ECS is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to work in Quantico, VA to provide support data architecture, engineering, and analysis initiatives for law enforcement and scientific organizations. Are you ready to play a crucial role in supporting cutting-edge technology for law enforcement and scientific organizations supporting the collection, processing, and analysis of data? Everforth ECS is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Cloud Architect to join our team and make a positive impact working at the intersection of traditional IT and specialized Operational Technology (OT) systems.

Responsibilities

• Create detailed plans for migrating applications, data, and infrastructure from on-premises environments to the cloud, considering factors like workload dependencies, data sensitivity, and business priorities.
• Thoroughly assess existing systems and applications to identify dependencies, compatibility issues, and cloud migration challenges.
• Coordinate migration activities, including data transfer, application re-platforming or refactoring, and testing, ensuring minimal disruption to ongoing operations.
• Optimize workloads for cloud environments, leveraging cloud-native features and best practices to enhance performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Develop integration architectures and patterns to connect cloud-based services with existing on-premises systems and applications.
• Design data pipelines and integration workflows to ensure seamless data flow between cloud and on-premises environments, leveraging technologies like messaging queues, APIs, and ETL (extract, transform, load) tools.
• Set up comprehensive monitoring and observability tools to track key performance metrics, resource utilization, and service availability.
• Analyze monitoring data to identify performance bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and areas for optimization across the cloud infrastructure and applications.
• Optimize resource allocation and utilization through techniques such as rightsizing, instance reservations, and workload distribution.
• Fine-tune configurations, adjust parameters, and optimize application code to improve performance, responsiveness, and scalability.
• Anticipate future capacity requirements and plan for scalability by designing architectures that can accommodate growth without compromising performance or cost-efficiency.
• Participate in architectural discussions and decision-making processes to ensure alignment with business goals and best practices.
• Document architectural designs, configurations, and implementation guidelines for reference and knowledge sharing.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior team members on cloud