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Job Summary:

A Cloud Architect job in Springfield, VA is currently available through Belcan at one of our key Federal Civilian clients.  To be considered for this role, you will have a BS in Computer Science and 10+ years of relevant experience.

Job Duties:

  • Must have significant in-depth understanding of and experience with the creation of and use of cloud-based resources; as well as the migration of legacy systems to the cloud.
  • Must be able to identify strategies for addressing requirements.
  • Must have extensive experience analyzing requirements against fiscal, schedule, and performance concerns.
  • Must have extensive experience in taking client requirements and developing it into an architecture vision.
  • Must have experience in high volume and high availability cloud based network interconnectivity like VPC, VPN and VPC Peering 
  • Must have experience in creating and conveying to the client and team members solutions based on cloud offerings and services.
  • Must take ownership for system solutions including but not limited to: AWS platforms, deployment platform and virtualized environment solutions.
  • Must have experience in establishing and enforcing standards and practices such as Agile
  • Must have extensive software and Hardware development experience and thorough knowledge of a variety of programming languages as well as development and deployment platforms.
  • Deep Dive Experience with compute, storage, Database, Developer Tool, security, identity compliance, Management & Governance, network & Content Delivery, Analytic and application Integration

Required Qualifications:

  • Minimum BS in Computer Science or related engineering degree
  • Intimate knowledge / Development in one or more programing languages (Java, Python, C/C++, C#, PHP, .Net, Node.js, Go and Ruby)
  • Utilized one or more cloud scripting languages i.e. JavaScript, PowerShell
  • Knowledge of JSON, YAML and XML
  • Intimate knowledge of system Administration of Windows and Linux servers
  • Knowledge and understanding of Virtual Networking principles such as DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, CDN, Public and Private Subnets and VPN
  • Worked with AW services such as Route 53, CloudFront and Virtual Private Cloud
  • Knowledge of data storage options available and when to apply them (i.e. bucket storage using S3 to Relational Database Services (RDS) to full fledge Hadoop clusters.
  • Knowledge of Cloud Security foundations (i.e. securing AWS accounts, to data, to managing identity and access management (IAM) services as well as using security groups and access control list to secure networks)
  • Intimate knowledge of both front and back end technologies provided by the cloud vendor (i.e. Amazon)
  • Knowledge of basic Amazon services such as SQS, SNS and RDS
  • Working experience or knowledge of virtualization or services like virtual machines, EC2, Lambda and Serverless Computing
  • Working knowledge of Web Services and Api
  • Working knowledge of Containers such as Kubernetes and Docker
  • Knowledge of using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to implement IaaS, PaaS, SaaS using CI/CD process
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

 

 

 

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

  • Knowledge of and or worked in the following additional Cloud environments:
    1. Google's GCP
    2. Microsoft's Azure
  • Knowledge of and or worked with the following tools:
    1. Terraform
    2. Chef
    3. Ansible
    4. Jenkins

Compensation:

We provide a competitive pay and benefits package. This position is offering a salary range of $170,000 - $204,000. Belcan considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to education, experience, geographic location, and discipline. Benefits offered may include health care, dental, vision, life insurance; 401(k); education assistance; paid time off including PTO, holidays, and any other paid leave required by law.

 

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Belcan is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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