Cloud Architect - AWS

You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm investigate ideas outside of your role and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As an Architect in IBM Consulting you’ll serve as a leader in defining solutions for clients. You’ll be the advocate for the client while guiding the technical team to implementation.
You’ll collaborate with client stakeholders and internal partners to understand the business problem and requirements constraints of the system and concerns of the various stakeholders to systematically transform detailed solutions (architectures) for the client.

This is a managed service provider (MSP) for Army IT systems and we support enterprise applications owners in migrating their systems into Amazon AWS and also provide sustainment services to support their applications. This position is for an architect to support these applications from a migration and sustainment role. Collaborate with customers to understand their application environments evaluate any architectural changes they may need and develop an architecture that meets the application requirements and utilizes a cloud native approach as much as possible.

Your primary responsibilities include:

• Prepare and submit build and process documentation internally and with external providers to facilitate application deployment and upgrades.
• Troubleshooting and root cause analysis of customer application issues to include network storage operating system and application-level analysis.
• Amazon AWS Portal administration in support of the Army cloud customers user account management add/modify/delete AWS resources configuration of alerting and notifications and general oversight of the AWS enrollment.
• Develop deploy and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) for deployment and sustainment of customer enclaves.
• Provide on-call support for triage and resolution of after-hours production incidents.
• Make recommendations for improvements to security scalability manageability and performance across a wide variety of network storage and compute services and technologies.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Clearance: *** This position requires a Secret Security clearance or higher (US Citizenship is required) ***

Required Skills:

• Knowledge of Amazon AWS cloud resources with mid-level Cloud Engineer experience
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience effectively managing multiple large-scale projects
• Understanding of network storage server and application technologies
• Strong troubleshooting skills across the entire technology stack network storage server and applications
• Experience with automation tools and scripting languages (Ansible Terraform Python Powershell Bash Puppet Chef etc.)
• Working knowledge of DoD STIGs and IA Vulnerability Management (IAVM) preferred.

Required Certifications:
AWS certification
Security+ (Or equivalent IA cert) and computing environment certification (i.e. Amazon Certified Cloud Practioner AWS Certified Solutions Architect etc. strongly preferred)
Computing environment certification
Minimum Required Cloud Certification
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Foundational
Preferred Cloud Certification
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
Any of the AWS Specialty Certifications

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
3-5 years of experience in cloud security engineering with a focus on RHEL and SAP environments
Expertise in building and maintaining RHEL images specifically for SAP applications
3+ years of experience with developing cloud system requirements (AWS and Azure) and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Ansible
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (GitLab Jenkins)
In-depth understanding of security practices including identity and access management encryption and network security (NIST and CIS Security frameworks)
Experience with STIGs and their application in securing systems
Experience in using Nessus for vulnerability scanning and remediation.

The ITES-3 education/experience requirements:
Intermediate level LCAT Bachelors +5 or Associates +7
Senior level LCAT Masters +10 or Bachelors +12