Cloud Architect

Creative Information Technology - Falls Church, VA

Full-time

Remote - Falls Church, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Cloud Architect position at Creative Information Technology Inc (CITI) involves supporting the operations, maintenance, and enhancement of the IRAP platform. This full-time role focuses on ensuring the platform's security, performance, and cost-effectiveness while collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance its capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the IRAP Platform by identifying, analyzing, and resolving emergent vulnerabilities in a timely manner.
• Perform required version upgrades to the tool stack used by the platform.
• Conduct monthly maintenance activities such as upgrading servers to the latest version of Gold AMI and performing patches.
• Perform security monitoring to maintain the Authority to Operate (ATO) of the IRAP platform.
• Update the ATO of IRAP to host restricted datasets as required.
• Enhance capabilities of IRAP in collaboration with Board Data Architects, Cloud Administrators, and other stakeholders.
• Ensure the IRAP platform is in sync with the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Terraform code in the code repository.
• Monitor cloud resource consumption and alert leadership if usage exceeds set limits.
• Identify opportunities for cloud cost savings and ensure optimized use of AWS resources within IRAP.
• Identify and manage external dependencies for platform enhancement efforts to ensure timely delivery of enhancements.
• Develop cloud infrastructure using Terraform and deploy infrastructure to production after successful testing.
• Perform user administration activities including onboarding and provisioning new users, and addressing user inquiries.

Requirements

• 5 years' experience designing, building, and maintaining Cloud infrastructure in AWS.
• 7 years' experience performing system administration activities including patching, upgrading, and maintenance of 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 to interact with stakeholders of varying technology acumen.
• Knowledge of FISMA security review and ATO process.
• Experience in understanding large complex software systems to isolate defects and assess risk.