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ID #19843835
State Maryland
City Clinton
Job type Contract
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source Softworld, Inc.
Showed 2021-09-18
Date 2021-09-17
Deadline 2021-11-15
Category Et cetera
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Information Systems Architect

Maryland, Clinton, 20735 Clinton USA

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Job Number: 235963

Information Systems Architect

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Description

PURPOSE of POSITION:

The Systems Architect, Senior designs, implements, and maintains the organization's application systems and/or IT infrastructure. The Systems Architect, Senior provides an architectural framework for information system development, maintenance, and enhancement efforts, understands user and process requirements and ensures those requirements can be achieved through high quality deliverables. The Systems Architect, Senior works closely with developers and engineers to develop road maps for applications, align development plans, and to ensure effective integration among information systems and the IT infrastructure. The Systems Architect, Senior monitors technological advancements to ensure that solutions are continuously improved, supported, and aligned with industry and company standards as well as emerging business requirements. The Systems Architect, Senior understands the interactions between systems, applications, and services within the environment, and evaluate the impact of changes or additions. The Systems Architect, Senior analyzes systems and performs usability testing to ensure performance and reliability, enhance scalability, and meet security requirements. The Systems Architect, Senior is considered highly skilled and proficient in discipline and conducts complex work important to the organization. The Systems Architect, Senior works under minimal supervision with wide latitude for independent judgment.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES/ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

1. Participate in the planning, architecture, and design of customer projects2. Develop and maintain the strategic IT solutions to address the future needs and plans for enterprise architecture, platforms, technologies, and tools required to sustain a high level of application performance3. Builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions4. Cultivates innovation allowing for new and better ways for the company to be successful5. Collaborates well with cross functional executive-level peers; able to drive decisions when consensus is lacking

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor's Degree

Master's degree preferred

AWS Certified, CCIE, CCNA, ITIL

Related Work Experience: 6-8 years

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES:

Thorough understanding of AWS infrastructure and services including but not limited to VPC, Security Groups, IAM, Cloud Formations, EC2, EBS, S3, CloudWatch, Cloud Trail, AWS Config.

  • This is an infrastructure position NOT and application position so solid AWS network understanding in a large multi-account environment is critical.
  • Experience with networking principles and technologies (DNS, Load Balancers, Reverse Proxies)
Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Cloud Formations, Terraform, Ansible, and similar tools from the network level up through the application provisioning level.

Automation experience with Ansible, Python and BOTO3, AWS Systems Manager, and other AWS automation services.

  • Experienced in authoring and updating Python scripts with BOTO3
  • Strong automation experience with Python ideally or other solid scripting language
Strong abilities with designing and implementing complex IAM policies in a multi-account environment.

High availability and Disaster Recovery principles, patterns and usage

Experience working as part of an Agile/Kanban Team

  • Ability to self-start and successfully collaborate in a distributed team environment.
  • Willingness to adapt and change and take on new challenges.
  • Self-starter with the ability to work independently or as part of a project team.
  • Strong analytical problem-solving ability.
  • Extremely strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Positive attitude and a strong commitment to delivering quality work.
Experience with DevOps concepts, methodologies, and tools.

  • Experience with Git and Jira is a must.
  • Experience with Jenkins and Ansible highly preferred.
Experience with ServiceNow (or similar ITSM tool) to self-select AWS and related trouble tickets from a queue and successfully resolve them to meet or exceed documented SLAs

Experience with Active Directory, Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), SAML, web Single Sign-on (SSO), OAuth and related authentication technologies

Practical experience sizing compute and storage needs

  • Previous Architectural Experience of Advanced IT Infrastructures required
  • Demonstrated with application and/or infrastructure architectural experience with progressive responsibilities.
  • Hands-on knowledge of current technology standards/trends coupled with a desire to continually expand personal knowledge/skills
  • Ability and interest in mentoring technical staff and raising collective technical competencies
  • Ability to manage change and cope with complex and ambiguous situations
  • Ability to establish and maintain relationships with other business and technology leaders
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills coupled with the ability to tailor communication to all levels of an organization
  • Open-minded with proven ability to work collaboratively with others in team environment
  • Experience identifying, defining and implementing technical design/coding standards

Desired Technical Skills - Sitecore, SalesForce, Xamarin, Responsive Web Design (AngularJS), Azure, API Management, CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub/Artifactory/Ansible), Spring Boot, Emerging Database Technologies (Hadoop, NoSQL), Identity Access Management (OKTA, Saviynt, etc.) , Application Performance Management (New Relic, SteelCentral), AWS, VMware, RHEL, SAN Storage Technologies, Containerization Technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Lambda, etc.).

  • Experience with Security-related architecture and design
  • Experience creating logical and physical system designs with Visio
  • Solid understanding of SDLC, Release Engineering, and Automated deployment processes.
  • Experience with tiered architectures - e.g. presentation, application, data
  • Familiar with ITSM/ITIL management concept

SCOPE of POSITION:

Individual Contributor

This position is an individual contributor and has no supervisory responsibilities. Provides functional expertise through day-to-day work tasks. Works under the supervision of management.

THIRD PARTY AGENCIES, SUBCONTRACTORS, AND RECRUITERS NEED NOT APPLY. Applicants received from firms will not be considered. Subcontracting is not available for this position.

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