GA DHS Senior Cloud Application Architect

The ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization on architecture is critical.

Required Experience:

• Minimum 12 years experience developing IT application architecture solutions for organizations business concerns.
• Extensive expertise in web technologies particularly ReactJS and related frameworks.
• Extensive working knowledge of Cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Microsoft Azure.
• Proficiency in messaging frameworks including Kafka JMSMQ and Active MQ.
• Excellent knowledge and experience of Microservices architecture Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of Front Middle and backoffice functions and applications.
• Create and maintain comprehensive architectural and design documentation ensuring that all technical solutions are welldocumented.
• Excellent knowledge of CI/CD concepts and tools such as GitLab GitHub.
• Knowledge of cloud monitoring and alerting services and capabilities.
• Ability to solve complex technical problems and accomplish tasks with minimal supervision.
• Excellent communication skills verbal & written in English. To be able to communicate with IT teams and departments end users and vendors.
• Ability to support project team to prioritize activities and provide deliverables as planned.
• Industry vendor certifications are desired (e.g. AWS Azure GCP or CNCF/Kubernetes certifications); although not essential if you have the experience and demonstrate the ability to work on these technologies.
• Strong background in Linux/UNIX administration (e.g. RedHat/CentOS 7/Alpine Linux).
• Experience with configuration management tools like Puppet and Ansible.
• Knowledge of one or more scripting languages (bash Powershell Python).