Cloud Architect

Sparksoft Corporation - Columbia, MD

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Columbia, MD

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Cloud Architect role at Sparksoft is a full-time position focused on designing and managing cloud solutions, particularly utilizing Red Hat OpenShift and AWS. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in IT, cloud architecture, and DevOps, with a strong emphasis on automation and continuous integration/deployment. This position requires effective communication skills to collaborate with both technical teams and business stakeholders, as well as the ability to lead engineering efforts and innovate solutions for complex problems.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the maintenance of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Ansible, Lambda, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform.
• Design automated, containerized cloud application platform solutions and integrate workloads to containerized workflows with automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with Agile scrum teams or tenants to establish and manage Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
• Architect code analysis tools such as SonarQube and Fortify into the CI/CD pipelines.
• Troubleshoot Infrastructure issues, collaborating with AWS support for resolution.
• Architect and help the engineering team develop automation to reduce routine manual effort.
• Architect and assist the engineering team develop reference applications for OpenShift that demonstrate functionality.
• Assist in tuning and resolving bottlenecks for various operational and performance challenges.
• Establish and maintain consistency of a product's performance, functional, and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information throughout its life.
• Support enhancing the platform functions and operations, continuously evolving in terms of ease of operations, improved performance, and monitoring workloads.

Requirements

• 8+ years of IT experience.
• 4+ years of relevant experience as a cloud and/or platform architect.
• DevOps experience in an AWS Cloud environment using services like EC2, AWS S3, IAM, VPC Peering, RDS, NAT Gateway, etc.
• In-depth knowledge in OpenShift/Kubernetes, preferably 4.x, ArgoCD and GitOps.
• Experience with system configuration tools like Ansible.
• Experience in creating build and deployment config files for applications on OpenShift.
• Firsthand experience in building CI/CD pipelines with Red Hat OpenShift/OCP.
• Proficient scripting skills in Perl, Python, or shell scripting.
• Experience with logging tools such as Vector, Fluent-Bit, and Splunk.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as New Relic and Dynatrace.
• Good communication skills, self-motivated, and a positive attitude to work independently in a team environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Comprehensive understanding of cloud delivery models: PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS.
• Knowledge, skills, and abilities to deploy OpenShift Container Platform in both public and private cloud.
• AWS SysOps administrator, DevOps engineer certifications are a plus.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401k plan
• Paid holidays
• Flexible scheduling
• Professional development opportunities