AWS Solutions Architect
TechFlow, Inc, United States
Job Description
TechFlow, Inc. is hiring an AWS Solutions Architect for an immediate opening specializing in creative solutions and strong customer engagement in support of a hybridized infrastructure consisting of Linux and Microsoft ecosystems across multiple Cloud (AWS, Azure) and On-Premise hosting environments. This forward-thinking and cloud-focused solutions provider will provide leadership and a key role in a team to design cloud architecture, specifically Azure, and application hosting solutions based on customer requirements, and be able to make recommendations using a balanced mix of technical and business skills.
Responsibilities
- Lead activities to provide as a Service platforms and system integration and implementation as an integral member of the team
- Review business context for solutions to challenges
- Support the clients' cloud customers that do not have their own independent technical support functions
- Elicit, document, and analyze business requirements in alignment with technical requirements to translate these requirements into a feasible and efficient cloud solution
- Introduce new COTS, GOTS, and Open Source cloud tools and services to be used for maintaining and monitoring the cloud platforms
- Assist transition from the legacy system which will lead to a legacy system being retired
- Provide technical expertise to the Security POCs in support of Security Engineering and Compliance
- Assist in the development of a proposed tobe infrastructure consisting of development, testing, staging, and production environments that leverages virtualization and cloud computing
- Assist in application and service design, implementation, and migration
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in design, analysis, and implementation of information systems architecture
- Bachelor’s degree in an IT discipline
- General work experience may be substituted for education. The requirement for education levels can be substituted at the rate of 1.5 years of experience for every year of education. An associate’s degree is 2 years of education, a Bachelor’s degree is 4 years of education, and a Master's degree is 6 years of education. The work experience to be substituted for education must be in a relevant field such as Information Technology, Information Security, or an MBA. The years of specific experience used for satisfying an education requirement cannot also be used as filling the work experience requirement.
- Able to attain EOD Public Trust clearance
Preferred Qualifications
- Azure or AWS Certification with 4+ years of relevant Hands-on experience
- 6+ years of cloud migration experience
- 11+ years of progressive technical or functional experience in a selected technical area or specialty skill
- Leads strategic planning initiatives in a cloud engineering or solutions
- Meets with management and the team members frequently to propose initiatives, help foster adoption of technologies and establish priorities.
- Demonstrated experience with hybrid cloud solutions
- Familiarity with design of federal IT systems or solutions that meet NIST Special Publication 800-53 security controls guidelines
- Demonstrated experience both working independently and as part of a team of solution architects on projects of various sizes and complexity
Desired Technologies
- Experience with Ansible / BASH / Power Shell Scripting experience
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AWS/Azure Certification
- Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service Products
- Office 365 Services
- Forefront Identity Manager (FIM)
- Active Directory (AD)
- VMware
- Experience with a High-Level Programming Languages: MS .NET, C#, JAVA/J2EE
- Hands-on OS Administration Experience: Microsoft Server, Unix/Linux
- Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, Informatica, ETL
- Web: Microsoft IIS, Apache/Tomcat, JBOSS
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Benefits
About TechFlow
Founded in 1995 at the start of the dot-com revolution, TechFlow helped large commercial clients such as Dreamworks, Toshiba, MGM, and others modernize their business systems. Today, with deep operational roots in the bi-coastal innovation hubs of California and Washington DC, TechFlow continues as a leader in applying innovative engineering, technology, integration solutions, and support services to the Federal Government’s most demanding mission and business challenges.
Our culture thrives on out-of-the-box thinking and the unique powerful entrepreneurial expressions of our employee-owners. As a 100% employee-owned company, we have a shared expectation of commitment, accountabili