Position: Cloud Infrastructure Consultant

Duration: 9+ month contract

Client: Department of Technology in Sacramento, CA.

Please note - Candidate MUST be willing to working onsite from onset of contract. This is a hybrid position (3 days onsite, 2 days remote). No exceptions.
Must be located in Bay area

Duties with the Cloud

• • Cloud Consulting

• • SME on Cloud Solutions offered by Azure and AWS

• • Provide guidance to Staff on consuming cloud resources (which services, and how)

• • Keep current with updates to Cloud technologies and best practices

• • Project Management

• • Participate in Cloud or Hybrid solutions leveraging Cloud infrastructure

• • Deploy and configure cloud resources related to projects

• • Troubleshoot Cloud IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS Issues

• • Monitor and repair critical enterprise systems

• • Build out Cloud only and Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

• • Manage multi-hub-spoke architecture with permanent connectivity to County On-Premise datacenters

• • Deploy and configure various cloud services with/without on-premise availability

• • Enhance governance strategies in relation to the following areas:

• • ** Distributed Billing

• • ** Role Based Access Controls / Access Management

• • ** Resource Management

• • Enhance security posture of cloud resources

• 24x7 Best Effort Availability to support select critical environments

Skills:

• Azure and AWS

• Understanding of Enterprise Infrastructure (firewalls, load balancers, network segments, virtual machines, etc)

• Linux and Windows Systems Administration

• Technical Design for Enterprises

• Strong background in Network Security, Data Security, and Identity Security

Bonus

• SDLC Principles, Containerization, Web deployment technologies

• System automation

• Infrastructure as code via Azure Resource Templates, AWS Cloud Formation Templates. Ansible & Terraform configuration management and orchestration are bonuses.