Solution ArchitectEngineer

The NC Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is seeking an experienced Solution Architect / Engineer. This resource is responsible to work across the entire Cloud Services organization and ensure cloud solution are implemented as specified

The position responsible for:

• Provide technical leadership for one or more of the following domains: Business Architecture Application/Software Architecture Database Architecture Infrastructure Architecture and Security Architecture.
• Responsible for finding opportunities to improve architecture using cloud and cloudnative technologies.
• Handson abilities to build MVP (Minimal Viable Product) technology solutions in the cloud.
• Prior experience in digital transformation for large complex applications.
• Provides assessment of current state technology architecture and recommendation of future state technology architecture
• Identifies architectural risks and plans to mitigate risks ensures adherence to standards and best practices and influences and communicates effectively with nontechnical audiences including senior ITD and business stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Software Development teams Product Managers and Business Owners to ensure smooth deployment and operation of systems.
• Guide/Build CI/CD pipeline configurations to orchestrate provisioning and deployment of both large and smallscale systems.
• Build and maintain tools for deployment monitoring and operations.
• Develop Cloud Operation Framework and roles and responsibilities for each category in the framework.
• Automate tools to monitor system health and reliability to support business process requirements Troubleshoot and resolve issues in development test and production environments.
• Communicate status and risks to the product teams Help automate and streamline operations and processes.
• Ensure solution designs and implementation meet architecture quality standards.
• Guide Solution Architects / Tech Leads to ensure that application and integration architecture aligns with system design guidelines and enterprise architecture standards.
• Mindful of the Healthcare Industry and Digital Health trends.
• Security Architecture / Security Controls Implementation
• Gap Analysis and Mitigation

Knowledge Skills and Abilities / Competencies:

• Active status as an AWS Certified Architect (DevOps or Architect preferred)
• Implements technical processes to roll out solutions.
• Works with the project team to deliver fully functional products in a timely manner
• Knowledge of CI/CD (Jenkins TravisCI CircleCI AppVeyor etc) is required.
• Working experience with one of more automation tools and repository such as Ansible Puppet Terraform CHEF TeamCity Artifactory SVN Bitbucket
• Working experience with cloud native tools like CloudFormation Terraform ELB Autoscaling and EC2
• Good understanding of VPCs Subnet configuration route table Internet gateway VPC peering Transit gateway VPC Link etc
• AWS Amazon Web Services Certified SysOps Administrator Associate
• Active certification status on any cloud providers: AWS/GCP/Azure Solution Architect (preferred)
• Active certification status on any cloud providers: AWS/GCP/Azure Developer (preferred)
• Track record of successfully establishing and implementing transformation programs in an Agile and DevOps environment

Minimum Education and Experience:

• Bachelors degree or higher in Information Systems Management Information Technology Computer Science Business Management Engineering or another related discipline
• 5 years of professional IT experience working with Windows Server or Linux environments.
• 4 Years of AWS Experience CloudFormation experience
• 8 years of related experience including experience working with Agile Methods and modern technology environments.
• 3 years of Cloud architecture experience and cloud economics
• Experience leading cross functional project teams workgroups.
• Highly desired Knowledge of security technologies and methods for securing information
• Highly desired Demonstrated proficiency in understanding enterprise architecture life cycle methodologies.
• Highly desired Interpersonal and leadership skills that demonstrate collaboration facilitation negotiation conflict management and influence.