Senior AWS DevOps

Years of Experience: 12 Years

Education Requirements:Master’s Degree

Program Description: Support USCB’s Decennial Information Technology Division (DITD) DITD with technology engineering management support and integration services for existing and future Census needs such as assisting in the planning for decennial census systems technology engineering management, architecture, engineering, and integration efforts. This includes the establishment of strategies, roadmaps, engineering management processes, and technology research initiatives that will lead to a decennial solution architecture and engineering approach which will guide work throughout the decennial program lifecycle and foster a skillfully integrated, efficient, scalable, and secure System of Systems (SoS) that meets decennial program requirements.

Position Description: The Cloud Native Application Architect is responsible for collaborating with leadership, stakeholders, and system teams in the evaluation, assessment, future state recommendation, and implementation of transformational application architectures and software development practices. This includes understanding the application, its cross-application and organizational dependencies, purpose, and operational requirements. Work includes designing and implementing cloud-based architectures and environments, cloud native application architectures, and application optimization as it relates to cost, consumption, and performance in the achievement of functional and non-functional requirements. The candidate will be responsible for, but not limited to reviewing business and technical requirements, focusing on solution development throughout the project lifecycle, supporting development, evangelizing best practices and proven patterns, and escalating architecture issues and concerns. The candidate will promote the use of IT standards, create architectures and designs, and develop target state architectures. Candidate must be experience in refactoring and redesigning monolithic data center hosted applications in the cloud.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the central point of contact for AWS cloud application development and refactoring, DevOps, Continuous Development, Continuous Deployment, and Continuous Integration
• Understand the client engagement critically towards well-defined purpose and achievement standards
• Possess technical commitment and assist in ensuring a suitable and successful delivery of cloud service
• Record and spread best practice knowledge between the solution architect team
• Use technology to find a solution for business problems
• Know how to design, develop, and maintain systems, process, procedures, to deliver a high-quality service design
• Implement modern engineering, DevOps and CI/CD programs, best practices, and disciplines for client including onboarding system teams
• Executing technical feasibility assessments, solution estimations and proposal development for moving identified workloads to the AWS Platform
• Developing technical and security specifications for the targeted applications/workloads in AWS
• Develop and implement application modernization, refactoring, and migration approaches to transition applications workloads from On-Premises to AWS
• Develop and implement new cloud-native applications and solutions on AWS
• Conduct application assessments and analysis for large cloud migrations. Targeting to move a high number of applications to AWS.
• Identifying application requirements for AWS potential refactoring that may be required for AWS functionality
• Developing, presenting and delivery large-scale application modernization roadmap plans as part of enterprise AWS migrations
• Lead and mentor medium to large sized teams in the migration workloads or implementations of application and services to the cloud in large enterprise environments
• Support cloud application business development and cloud solutions delivery efforts
• 10+ years of experience in application and software development at scale
• MS level technical degree required; Computer Science preferred
• Experience architecting scalable, highly available application solutions that leverage Cloud services
• Ability to scope and collaborate on customer requirements.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills and ability to lead effectively across organizations
• Current hands-on software development experience required; Internet-related business models preferred
• Proven experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies required
• Deep hands-on experience leading the design, development, and deployment of business software at scale
• Demonstrated ability to think