The work is expected to be done remotely.
Mode of InterviewThe State will conduct interviews. The State reserves the right to remove a resource from consideration if the resource is unavailable for interview as requested by the State. Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams.
Project Schedule- Anticipated Project Start Date: February 17, 2025
- Anticipated End Date: June 30, 2026
The State retains the option to extend the work order in increments determined by the State.
Sample Tasks - Work with product managers, development teams, and other engineering teams to deliver cloud-based solutions which meet the needs of the State.
- Use project management principles and practices sufficient to determine program direction, plan work, set goals, and monitor and evaluate accomplishments.
- Lead complex projects, write project plans, establish priorities, allocate resources/workloads in team environment. Sample project work may include:
- Designing complex processes and measurement metrics
- Applying research and analytical skills in evaluating new technologies
- Providing technical decision making with limited resources and precedence
- Developing specific solutions for unique and unprecedented problems
- Analyzing technical problems and implementing solutions under tight time constraints
- Using formal methods of systems analysis
- Develop policy and procedure.
- Create documentation, design, and technical artifacts in Microsoft Visio, Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
- Use verbal and written communications to interact technically with staff and vendor representatives and functionally with users (present technical concepts to both technical and non-technical staff).
- Present clear and concise reports to executive management/leadership.
- Provide knowledge transfer
Desired Skills - Five years of Cloud Architect experience
- At least two engagements with two different entities in a Cloud Architect role
- Knowledge of Agile project management tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical staff/end-users.
- Effective customer service skills, including the ability to interact frequently with end-users and other staff.
- Sophisticated troubleshooting skills, including the ability to create and test hypotheses based on relative likelihood, and a willingness and ability to creatively consider all possible causes for a problem and test appropriately.
Cloud Design Desired Skills - Experience designing enterprise cloud solutions leveraging, Microsoft Azure, Amazon
Web Services, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
- Excellent understanding of cloud shared responsibility and security models
- Secure system design and development principles to conform to state and federal
guidelines.
- Demonstrated ability to architect complex solutions on public cloud infrastructure.
- Experience with cloud Monitoring and Alerting Solutions, such as Azure Monitor, SCOM,
SolarWinds, or others.
- Experience providing governance around cloud services.
- Experience in cloud migration planning, design, and process for large enterprise
organizations, applications, and database services.
Cloud Solution Implementation Skills - Scripting with Python and/or PowerShell.
- Experience with Infrastructure Configuration Solutions, such as Azure Automation, Azure Orchestrator, SCCM Desired State Configuration, Azure Desired State Configuration, Puppet, Chef, or others.
- Designing and implementing with cloud IaaS and PaaS Services.
- Knowledge and usage of AWS CloudFormation or Azure Resource Manager, Terraform
- and/or Azure Bicep.
- Experience leveraging development pipelines, DevOps philosophies and working with infrastructure-as-code (IaC).
