Solutions Architect

The Solutions Architect will work directly with the Director of Enterprise Architecture, the Enterprise Architecture team, and Data Center and Cloud Engineering teams in performing the following duties:

Lead the design and implementation of enterprise solution architectures that support mission-critical applications and services
Translate business, functional, and technical requirements into scalable solution designs
Design highly available, fault-tolerant, and disaster-resilient architectures using data center and cloud best practices
Evaluate existing infrastructure and recommend modernization strategies
Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform
Architect data center and cloud containerized solutions utilizing VMware VKS, RedHat OpenShift, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, AWS Lambda, and related AWS services
Design and support GitLab DevSecOps pipelines and CI/CD tools
Optimize proposed technology solutions for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency
Lead architecture reviews, technical assessments, and design validation activities
Develop technical documentation including architecture diagrams, interface specifications, design documents, and implementation plans
Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers, developers, and infrastructure teams
Support Authority to Operate (ATO) efforts, continuous monitoring, and security assessments
Collaborate with project managers and stakeholders to estimate technical effort, identify risks, and develop implementation strategies
Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption where appropriate

Candidate Capability Requirements/Experience:

o Degree in Computer Science/Information Management Systems, or equivalent level technical experience.
o 5+ years performing Solutions Architecture activities.
o 5+ years developing business, application, and technology architecture.
o Demonstrated expertise in data center technologies as well as cloud solutioning
o Cloud Operations

AWS and Azure experience in multiple accounts/subscriptions environment
Experience provisioning and managing cloud services (e.g. compute, storage, networking, security, databases) in an enterprise environment
Cloud networking (e.g. VPC, firewall, security groups, VPN, hybrid cloud (Direct Connect/Express Route)
Cloud resource management automation DevSecOps
o Demonstrated experience developing with modern application programming frameworks
o Demonstrated experience containerizing applications
o Demonstrated experience managing GitLab pipelines
o Experience with CI/CD pipelines and best practices
o Experience writing Terraform HCL infrastructure code
o Git Version Control in DevOps: Git best practices, branching, tagging, release management, etc.

Containers/Kubernetes

o Demonstrated experience deploying to AWS and Azure Kubernetes environments
o Demonstrated experience with datacenter Kubernetes platforms such as VMware VKS and RedHat OpenShift
o Demonstrated experience developing Dockerfiles and Helm charts
o 5+ years system engineering/administration with Linux and Windows systems
o Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
o Demonstrated ability to mentor engineering teams and influence technical decision-making.
o Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with elected officials, senior staff, information systems professionals, and non-technical users.