ECS is seeking a Cloud Technical Expert to work in Quantico, VA to provide support data architecture, engineering, and analysis initiatives for law enforcement and scientific organizations. Please Note: This position is contingent upon additional funding.
Responsibilities of the Cloud Technical Expert include but are not limited to:
- 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. Throughout the process, they ensure 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 architecture principles, best practices, and technologies.
- Take part in agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives to provide updates on cloud-related tasks and initiatives.
- US citizenship with active Top-Secret clearance.
- 10+ years of experience in Cloud systems including architecture, with a proven track record in designing and managing large-scale systems.
- Contributing to developing and maintaining cloud governance frameworks, policies, and procedures.
- Collaborating with procurement and finance teams to optimize cloud spending and manage budgets effectively.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification.