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Posted: 11/14/2024 Employment Type: Direct Placement Job Category: DevOps/Cloud Job Number: 16824

Job Description

Adaptive Solutions Group is a premier provider of information technology personnel. We provide a variety of technical professionals available for contract, contract to hire, or direct placement positions to companies in and around the Kansas City and St. Louis areas.

We are currently looking for a Cloud Architect to join our team.

Responsibilities

Design and develop cloud-based architectures that meet our technical and business requirements in a multi-cloud environment.
Work with technical teams to develop cloud migration strategies and plans.
Provide guidance and support to technical teams during the implementation of cloud solutions by jointly collaborating with business teams on design, onboarding and migration of applications and solutions ensuring proper fitment, adherence to design principles, cost effectiveness and meeting the required security and compliance.
Design and implement consistent cloud landing zone concepts for shared platform services and dev, test, prod environments with associated policy driven infrastructure.
Develop and maintain cloud-based documentation, including architecture diagrams, policies and procedures, and training materials.
Work with vendors and partners to identify suitable cloud-based solutions.
Design, enforce and monitor proper identity and access management (IAM) solutions and security/compliance controls in alignment with Information Security requirements.
Identify and address security risks and ensure that our cloud infrastructure is secure.
Monitor and optimize cloud-based infrastructure for performance and cost, identify bottlenecks, and optimize system architecture for maximum efficiency and availability.
Implement monitoring and alerting mechanisms to proactively identify and resolve performance issues.
Work with technical teams to resolve issues and ensure that our cloud infrastructure is highly available and reliable.
Stay up-to-date with cloud-based technologies and recommend improvements to our infrastructure.
Collaborate with technical and business teams to ensure that our cloud-based solutions align with our organizational goals.
Provide recommendations for cost optimization, such as rightsizing instances, leveraging reserved instances, or implementing auto-scaling capabilities for contribution to FinOps practices.
Assist, enable and educate cloud consumers in best practices.
Co-develop/participate in cloud governance practices like architectural review boards and cloud center of excellence programs.
Conduct cloud well-architected reviews for cloud applications and solutions.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and 8 years of experience providing enterprise architecture strategies, enterprise integration solutions and services leveraging various applications and technical platforms required or applicable work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.
Excellent enterprise architecture and integration skills, including data architecture, cloud architecture, middleware and other architectural methods and practices.
Experience in large scale enterprise transformation projects using industry enterprise architecture strategy solutions and middleware technologies
Strong ability to influence or lead enterprise integration project execution.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Expert knowledge with application data analysis and transformation at various layers of the architecture and possess the ability to present data transformation during various stages of the architecture.
Experience with leading edge application, middleware technology and solutions utilizing data strategies.
Experience with a variety of project execution methodologies including but not limed to Waterfall and Agile.
Experience developing enterprise architecture strategies focusing on data, application, and technologies for clients in the utilities industry.

Preferred Qualifications

Professional Network Certifications preferred (Azure or AWS Certified Solution Architect)
Experience designing and delivering complex, Hybrid Cloud Infrastructures.
Experience delivering Infrastructure as Code.
Experience with DevOps practices and toolsets, some development background preferred.
Strong with at least one scripting language such as Python.
The Cloud Architect should have direct, documented, and verifiable experience with the following:
Proven experience as a Cloud Architect or similar role.
Experience working in an Enterprise Architect practice.
In-depth knowledge of cloud-based technologies and architectures.
Experience with cloud-based infrastructure, such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and OCI.
Knowledge of DevOps and Agile methodologies.
Stay updated with the latest industry trends and emerging technologies to proactively address security risks.
Performance Optimization and Cost Management - Monitor cloud infrastructure performance, identify bottlenecks, and optimize system architecture for maximum efficiency and availability.
Implement monitoring and alerting mechanisms to proactively identify and resolve performance issues.
Optimize cloud resource utilization to minimize costs while ensuring adequate capacity and performance.
Provide recommendations for cost optimization, such as rightsizing instances, leveraging reserved instances, or implementing auto-scaling capabilities.
Experience in using architecture methodologies such as TOGAF.
Deep understanding and experience with switches, routing, MPLS, network administration, network integration, and network advancement
Experience planning and designing wireless, network security, LAN, WAN, and external network data connections.
Full-stack knowledge of IT infrastructure:
Applications
Databases
Operating systems — Windows, Unix and Linux
Hypervisors
IP networks — WAN/SDWAN, LAN, VNETs, VPCs, WAFs, Firewalls, NSGs, Transit Gateways, Load Balancers
Storage networks
Backup networks and media
Containers/Kubernetes

Adaptive Solutions Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package that includes medical, dental, STD/LTD, life insurance coverage, 401k, paid vacation and holidays.

Adaptive Solutions Group is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, and veteran or disability status.

Job Requirements

Azure or AWS Certified Solution Architect

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Erica Albani-Burgio

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