Our federal client is hiring a Cloud (AWS) Architect on a remote basis for $70/hr (W2). This is a federal position: You MUST be a US Citizen/Green Card holder to be eligible. We CANNOT accept C2C candidates at this time.

Requirements:

• 5 years’ experience designing, building, and maintaining Cloud infrastructure in AWS.
• 7 years' experience performing system administration activities including patching, upgrading, and maintenance Windows and Linux servers.
• 3 years' experience building AWS Infrastructure using Terraform.
• 5 years' experience using Agile software development methodologies.
• 3 years' experience building CI/CD pipelines, preferably using Azure DevOps or Gitlab.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to effectively interact with stakeholders of varying levels of technology acumen.
• Knowledge of FISMA security review and ATO process
• Experience acquiring in-depth understanding of large complex software systems to isolate defects, reproduce defects, assess risk, and understand varied customer deployments.

Deliverables:

• Maintain IRAP Platform by identifying, analyzing, and resolving any emergent vulnerabilities in a timely fashion.
• Perform any required version upgrades to the tool stack used by the platform.
• Perform required monthly maintenance activities such as upgrading servers to use the latest version of Gold AMI, performing patches, testing the platform after maintenance etc.
• Perform security monitoring to maintain ATO of the IRAP platform.
• Perform activities required to update the ATO of IRAP to host restricted datasets.
• Enhance capabilities of IRAP in collaboration with Board Data Architects, Cloud Administrators, and other stakeholders.
• Ensure IRAP platform is in sync with the IaC Terraform code in the code repository.
• Monitor cloud resource consumption and alert leadership if the resource usage exceeds set limits.
• Identify opportunities for cloud cost savings. Ensure optimized use of AWS resources within IRAP by rightsizing, optimizing, and reengineering the infrastructure.
• Identify and manage external dependencies for platform enhancement efforts to ensure timely delivery of enhancements.
• Perform development of cloud infrastructure using terraform and deploy infrastructure to production after successful completion of comprehensive testing.
• Perform IRAP platform user administration activities including but not limited to onboarding and provisioning new users, addressing, and resolving user enquiries, concerns, and issues.