Level 3 Communications, Inc

Cloud Solutions Architect

Level 3 Communications, Inc$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree with 12+ years of relevant experience or a Graduate Degree with 10+ years; 16+ years in lieu of degree.
  • 5+ years leading teams to deliver enterprise solutions with RESTful APIs and Microservices.
  • 3+ years experience leveraging Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) to host solutions with Containers and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
  • 3+ years designing scalable infrastructure and automated deployments with tools like Jenkins and Kubernetes.
  • AWS Solutions Architect and SysOps certifications preferred, along with Kubernetes Administrator certification.

Responsibilities

  • Support Business Development by writing technical proposals and conducting trade studies.
  • Interface with customers to gather use cases and design Cloud solutions.
  • Design and create Cloud environments for software teams, ensuring they are updated with the latest components and tools.
  • Collaborate with security teams to define and implement necessary security controls.
  • Act as a Subject Matter Expert in Cloud technologies and lead teams with best practices in scaling enterprise solutions.
  • Engage in fast prototyping and help field solutions in customer environments.

Benefits

  • Flexible 9/80 work schedule allows every other Friday off.
  • Opportunity for collaboration across cross-functional teams in various projects.
  • Access to cutting-edge tools and technologies in the Cloud domain.
  • Professional development opportunities in cloud certifications and emerging technologies.
  • Work on mission-critical solutions that have a significant impact on operations.
Full Job Description
Job Title: Cloud Solutions Architect

Job Code: 37603

Job Location: Herndon, VA

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days - totaling 80 hours worked - and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

L3Harris Technologies is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect to leverage Cloud Service Providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud) in delivering solutions to improve customer operations and provide information management services. As a member of the L3Harris team, you will work alongside various cross-functional teams to define requirements, architectures, APIs, serverless frameworks and libraries to ensure the mission critical readiness of programs and Independent Research and Development (IR&D) projects. As Solution Architect, you will collaborate with teams to implement Cloud & hybrid solutions while following proven best practices which may include fast prototyping, trade studies, COTS integration, and deployment.

The Cloud Solution Architect will work with internal and external customers to design, develop, and field Cloud architectures to satisfy customer requirements. Collaboration with cross-functional teams throughout pursuits, systems development lifecycle, deployment, and operational sustainment is integral to this role. As a technical expert in the latest industry trends, tools and methodologies, the Solutions Architect is essential to continuous optimization and modernization of our solutions.

Essential Functions:
  • Support Business Development team by writing white papers, performing trade studies, participating in fast prototyping and writing technical responses for proposals & new program pursuits.
  • Interface with customers to understand use cases and define requirements, design Cloud capable solutions, support system level testing, and field the solution in customer environments to support the mission.
  • Leverage existing domain experience hosting solutions in Cloud environments.
  • Design large-scale distributed systems using microservices and containers.
  • Create and maintain virtualized, containerized and/or Cloud ready environments used by the software teams. This includes periodic updates to components and tools to stay current with latest revisions and security updates.
  • Work with security teams to help define and implement security controls.
  • Serve as a Subject Matter Expert on Cloud, Microservices, IaC, and DevSecOps topics to lead teams in supporting enterprise solutions.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain an FAA public trust suitaiblity.


Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 12 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 16 years of prior related experience.


Preferred Additional Skills:
  • 5+ years direct experience leading teams to deliver enterprise solutions that implement RESTful Web Services, Microservices and/or Cloud components (AWS preferred).
  • 3+ years of experience in leveraging CSPs to host Cloud based solutions involving Cloud computing, Containers, VPC, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and Security Groups.
  • 3+ years designing a scalable infrastructure and automated deployment in Cloud environments leveraging tools to support pipelines and containers such as Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes.
  • AWS Solutions Architect and AWS Sys Ops certification(s).
  • Kubernetes Administrator certification(s).
  • Experience using scripting languages such as Python, Bash or other shell scripting.
  • Experience developing applications that leverage relational and noSQL databases (Cassandra, MariaDB, InfluxDB, EnterpriseDB).
  • Experience with IaC tools like CloudFormation, Terraform, Puppet or Ansible.
  • Experience with iterative software development processes (Agile, SCRUM, Kanban).
  • Multi-Cloud Domain experience


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