Title: CloudRAMP Architect
Duration: 02/17/2025-06/30/2025
Location: Minnesota – Remote position 100%
Interview: Webcam only
Sample Tasks
- Work with product managers, development teams, and other engineering teams to deliver cloud-based solutions which meet the needs of the State.
- Use project management principles and practices sufficient to determine program direction, plan work, set goals, and monitor and evaluate accomplishments.
- Lead complex projects, write project plans, establish priorities, allocate resources/workloads in team environment. Sample project work may include:
- Designing complex processes and measurement metrics
- Applying research and analytical skills in evaluating new technologies
- Providing technical decision making with limited resources and precedence
- Developing specific solutions for unique and unprecedented problems
- Analyzing technical problems and implementing solutions under tight time constraints
- Using formal methods of systems analysis
- Develop policy and procedure.
- Create documentation, design, and technical artifacts in Microsoft Visio, Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
- Use verbal and written communications to interact technically with staff and vendor representatives and functionally with users (present technical concepts to both technical and non-technical staff).
- Present clear and concise reports to executive management/leadership.
- Provide knowledge transfer
Desired Skills
- Five years of Cloud Architect experience
- At least two engagements with two different entities in a Cloud Architect role
- Knowledge of Agile project management tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical staff/end-users.
- Effective customer service skills, including the ability to interact frequently with end-users and other staff.
- Sophisticated troubleshooting skills, including the ability to create and test hypotheses based on relative likelihood, and a willingness and ability to creatively consider all possible causes for a problem and test appropriately.
Cloud Design Desired Skills
- Experience designing enterprise cloud solutions leveraging, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
- Excellent understanding of cloud shared responsibility and security models
- Secure system design and development principles to conform to state and federal guidelines.
- Demonstrated ability to architect complex solutions on public cloud infrastructure.
- Experience with cloud Monitoring and Alerting Solutions, such as Azure Monitor, SCOM, SolarWinds, or others.
- Experience providing governance around cloud services.
- Experience in cloud migration planning, design, and process for large enterprise organizations, applications, and database services.
Cloud Solution Implementation Skills
- Scripting with Python and/or PowerShell.
- Experience with Infrastructure Configuration Solutions, such as Azure Automation, Azure Orchestrator, SCCM Desired State Configuration, Azure Desired State Configuration, Puppet, Chef, or others.
- Designing and implementing with cloud IaaS and PaaS Services.
- Knowledge and usage of AWS CloudFormation or Azure Resource Manager, Terraform and/or Azure Bicep.
- Experience leveraging development pipelines, DevOps philosophies and working with infrastructure-as-code (IaC).
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Pay: $70.00 - $80.00 per hour
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Application Question(s):
- Locals preferred in Minnesota
Education:
Experience:
- Cloud Architect: 5 years (Required)
- Microsoft Azure: 5 years (Preferred)
- Amazon Web Services: 5 years (Preferred)
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: 5 years (Preferred)
Location:
Work Location: Remote
