ISGF is currently seeking a Cloud Architect on a contract basis for one of our clients in Los Angeles, CA

Our client works to provide solutions in order to improve the way businesses hire and manage their potential employees. With their award-winning services and up to date technologies, our client goes beyond the traditional workforce. ISGF has repeatedly been ranked as Best Places to Work by Inc Magazine, Orlando Business Journal, and Florida Trend Magazine. We provide talent to some of the Nation’s leading companies.

 

Job Responsibilities:

• Work directly with client's largest cloud users to define technical specifications based on conceptual design and business requirements.


• Assist with the design and implementation of security and forensics capabilities to ensure governance across multiple cloud venues, private and public.


• You will help enable innovation through continuous deployment across technology stacks and demonstrate best practices around advanced cloud solutions


• Collaborate cross functionally to develop our target state cloud architecture and supporting organization model along with the platform roadmap required to achieve that target state. Drive cloud/ technology discussions and facilitate decision with other teams within the organization.


• Evaluate new and emerging technologies, services, tools, and multiple cloud vendors for innovative new capabilities; guide business and technology decisions.


• Develop reference architectures, publish design patterns, and speak about these internally and publicly, Drive technical designs to consensus and approval.


• Contribute to and respond to code and architecture reviews as needed.


• Write code and scripts to automate everything possible.


• Strong technical expertise and troubleshooting skills for large scale distributed computing systems and software.


• Minimal conceptual, logical and physical data modeling with data modeling tools and database design in complex, large-scale data environments.


• Enforce adherence to architectural standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines, usability design standards, governance, cost controls, etc.


• Work with product owners and other functional teams to translate the roadmaps into releases.

Job Requirements:

• BS in computer science or related field


• Knowledgeable in public and private cloud technologies


• Demonstrated ability in building cloud native and 12 factor applications


• Demonstrated production-level software development skills


• Demonstrated ability to conceive, manage, and complete project deliverables


• Script in JSON, Java or other programming languages


• Understanding of Terraform, GIT, ansible playbooks and cloud templating


• Ability to create business cases for new technology proposals


• Thorough understanding of infrastructure automation, continuous integration/deployment and cloud delivery models


• Deep expertise in public cloud architecture and transformation strategy as well as product architecture


• Knowledge of infrastructure design & server infrastructure implementation


• Experience with networking and web standards such as DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, HTTP, web security mechanisms, proxies, firewalls & application delivery controllers


• Experience in deploying production workloads using AWS and Microsoft Azure


• Balance of strategic and tactical skills and the ability to work on cross-functional teams


• Ability to write technical documentation


• Ability to work on multiple concurrent complex projects and to coordinate the work of others in the cloud environment.


• Experience with build tools, CI/CD, DevOps and agile principles


• Possess an understanding of system testing including platform, integration, load and scale testing


• Proficient at multitasking and proactive in work responsibilities


• Linux systems administration skills, across distributions, and especially in a cloud or virtualized environment


• Understanding of IP networking and traffic scaling


• Experience with development methodologies, rapid application development, and project management


• Proven ability to design and present understandable and practical solutions to complex problems


• Demonstrated leadership skills in a fast-paced, team-driven environment


• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including visual presentation skills


• Demonstrated experience in research data collection, analysis, and presentation


• Ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations


• Ability to travel when needed; expected travel is 5-25%


• Must be willing to submit to a background investigation


• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States


• Must be willing to provide support during non-business hours as needed


• AWS, Azure, and/or Google Compute Platform to deploy highly reliable and scalable cloud applications


• Python, Node.js, and Perl


• Expert at Web application development including JavaScript/CSS/HTML, Angular, BootStrap, and JQuery


• Proficient with data structuring languages, including XML, JSON, and design of binary data formats


• Revision control, including git and github


• Experience with automated testing and performance tools, including JMeter


• Experience with large-scale distributed infrastructures, including technologies for clustering and load balancing


• Understanding of distributed capacity management


• Understanding of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA and REST), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS)


• Experience implementing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools and systems


• Experience in Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos and Marathon


• Demonstrated ability to automate the deployment of infrastructure using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Chef/Puppet


• HTTP, TCP, DNS, UDP, IPv4/IPv6 networking and protocols


• Understanding of network database and storage technologies including NoSQL, NAS, and object stores


• Understanding of unattended installation and configuration technologies including PXE and Foreman


• Understanding software development in a DevOps culture


• Proponent of open source software licenses


• Ability and desire to mentor engineers, technologists, and managers