Veterans Engineering is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to join our team and advance your career in an exciting and challenging environment. This role offers the opportunity to lead high-impact cloud projects, focusing on both initial migrations and ongoing optimizations, including FinOps functions and re-engagements of already migrated applications to ensure cost and architectural efficiencies.
Description:
As a Senior Cloud Architect, you will be responsible for the successful analysis, high-level design, and delivery of cloud projects for our customers. You are a self-starter who collaborates well, helps others, and completes your assigned tasks promptly. You will manage and perform high-level, day-to-day tasks supporting architecture initiatives, developing strategies, creating and supporting executive presentations, and guiding individual cloud migrations.
You will lead small teams for assigned projects and collaborate with government customers and vendors. You will apply your expertise on multiple complex work assignments, which are broad, and require originality, creativity, and innovation in determining how to accomplish tasks. You will use your in-depth knowledge across key tasks and high-impact assignments, evaluate performance results, and recommend changes as necessary to achieve project success. You will lead the high-level and detailed architecture of complex systems related to various business areas. Your overall responsibilities will include the design and documentation of systems architecture, design, cost estimates, and planning skills required to lead the activities for cloud migrations and cloud-shared services expansions/enhancements in cloud production environments.
In this role, you will:
- Lead assigned architecture and technical activities to meet customer requirements.
- Oversee and plan activities to create and maintain project deliverables for cloud program initiatives and assigned individual application migrations, all with a focus on delivering high customer satisfaction and business value.
- Facilitate and lead teams in determining architecture goals, cost-estimating solutions, and reviewing existing cloud deployments for potential improvements to design, availability, recoverability, and cost management.
- Implement FinOps functions to ensure cost optimization and financial accountability in cloud operations.
- Re-engage with already migrated applications to identify and implement architectural optimizations and cost-saving measures.
- Serve as the primary customer technical contact for assigned projects.
- Serve as a mentor to inspire and guide less experienced team members in support of the customer mission.
- Lead assigned process reviews and updates as part of the program’s ongoing continuous improvement process.
Required Skills/Experience:
- Possesses mature leadership and management skills.
- Must have a strong understanding of Azure and AWS Well-Architected Frameworks in cloud production environments and understand how to use that knowledge to guide migration teams moving to the cloud.
- Must possess current, relevant professional-level certifications in AWS and Azure cloud environments, with a strong preference toward AWS Professional certifications and Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or equivalent.
- At least six (6) years of specialized experience in cloud architecture planning, estimating, application migration, and cloud governance.
- Proven skills in Cloud-native development.
- A dynamic personality that highlights leadership and flexibility to adjust when faced with challenges or adversity.
- Strong people skills and the ability to diplomatically resolve conflicts.
- Able to lead and work collaboratively in a team environment.
- Flexible, responsive, and able to work to specific deadlines.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills are essential, as well as strong customer focus and presence.
- Knowledge of Agile practices and governance.
- Strong Visio skills.
Additional Skills That a Strong Candidate Will Possess:
- Excel & Word expertise
- Healthcare experience
- Existing US Government Public Trust moderate background investigation
- Software architecture / assurance
- Familiarity with Jira
If you are passionate about cloud architecture and eager to work in a dynamic environment, we encourage you to apply!
