Senior Cloud Architect

• Everforth ECS is seeking a  Senior Cloud Architect  to work in Quantico, VA  to provide support data architecture, engineering, and analysis initiatives for law enforcement and scientific organizations.
• Responsibilities of the Senior Cloud Architect include but are not limited to:
• Create detailed plans for migrating applications, data, and infrastructure from on-premises environments to the cloud, considering factors like workload dependencies, data sensitivity, and business priorities.
• Thoroughly assess existing systems and applications to identify dependencies, compatibility issues, a nd  cloud migration  challenges.
• Coordinate migration activities, including data transfer, application re-platforming or refactoring, and testing. Throughout the process, they ensure minimal disruption to ongoing operations.
• Optimize workloads for cloud environments, leveraging cloud-native features and best practices to enhance performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Develop integration architectures and patterns to connect cloud-based services with existing on-premises systems and applications.
• Design data pipelines and integration workflows to ensure seamless data flow between cloud and on-premises environments, leveraging technologies like messaging queues,  APIs , and ETL (extract, transform, load) tools.
• Set up comprehensive monitoring and observability tools to track key performance metrics, resource utilization, and service availability.
• Analyze monitoring data to identify performance bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and areas for optimization across the cloud infrastructure and applications.
• Optimize resource allocation and utilization through techniques such as rightsizing, instance reservations, and workload distribution.
• Fine-tune configurations, adjust parameters, and optimize application code to improve performance, responsiveness, and scalability.
• Anticipate future capacity requirements and plan for scalability by designing architectures that can accommodate growth without compromising performance or cost-efficiency.
• Participate in architectural discussions and decision-making processes to ensure alignment with business goals and best practices.
• Document architectural designs, configurations, and implementation guidelines for reference and knowledge sharing.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior team members on cloud architecture principles, best practices, and technologies.
• Take part in agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives to provide updates on cloud-related tasks and initiatives.
• In this role, you'll have the opportunity to:
• Assess the organization’s current infrastructure, applications, and business requirements to determine the optimal cloud architecture.
• Create architectures that can scale seamlessly to accommodate growth and fluctuating workloads, leveraging services like auto-scaling, serverless computing, and distributed databases.
• Design architectures with redundancy, fault tolerance, and high availability to minimize downtime and ensure continuous service delivery.
• General Description of Benefits
• US citizenship with active Top-Secret clearance
• 10+ years of experience in Cloud systems including architecture, with a proven track record in designing and managing large-scale systems.

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