Job Title: Azure Cloud Architect (Solutions)
Full-Time
Job Description:
- The Azure Cloud Solution Architect is responsible for the engineering of business and technical solutions in support of CGI Federal’s Cloud Practice Group leveraging Azure
- The Azure Cloud Solution Architect supports solution development with subject matter experts and engineers to build the Cloud Solution Offerings and participates as a Solution Lead for Cloud Proposals and Opportunities
- The Azure Cloud Solution Architect will provide subject matter experience and expertise with the ability to clearly present concepts and services to both internal and external clients in a formal environment
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in government or commercial IT consulting
- Ability to blueprint, design, and deploy scalable, HA, and fault tolerant systems on Azure
- Migration of existing on-prem applications to Azure
- Write reference architecture, best practices, and thought leadership whitepapers
- Security focused solutions and workloads
- Ability to identify and enforce Azure architectural best practices
- Understanding of security compliance, managed services in cloud based workloads
- Embrace and focus on emerging technology and evangelize to the rest of the team
- Understanding of Agile, DevOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is strongly desired
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment knowledge and experience is a plus
- Must own ability to learn fast, adapt to new technology, and keep current with industry certifications
- The following Azure Certifications are highly desired; significant hands on experience may be substituted:
- Certified Developing Azure Solutions (70-532)
- Certified Implementing Azure Solutions (70-533)
- Certified Architecting Azure Solutions (70-534)
- Desired Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Competencies: FedRAMP, NIST and FISMA compliance, ATO and security compliances
- Due to the nature of the government contracts we support, US Citizenship is required
Apply online at https://goo.gl/7FmCJQ.
Date Posted: 4/21/17