A$ A' "A' ?The Cloud Architect is an accomplished technical leader, proactive customer-focused advocate, a team player with solid understanding of cloud computing and technology systems, as well as experience designing and transferring applications to the cloud. The candidate will be responsible for architecting highly scalable, available, and elastic solutions that implement industry best practices using cloud-based solutions with specific understanding of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS).This individual will be involved in the design, review of architectures, and construction of cloud service provider environments. The candidate should have a positive attitude and excellent communication skills to effectively share the knowledge. The candidate must have hands-on experience evaluating and implementing cloud strategies and program architecture. The candidate must have hands-on experience with architecting cloud solutions and migrating on premise computing to cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation, supporting deployments in a GCP environment.Essential Job Duties:A cents € cents Provide guidance and technical oversight, brainstorm solutions, conduct architecture and design reviews to support internal teams as well as end clientsA cents € cents Present technical solutions, guidance, governance and participate in architecture and design reviewsA cents € cents Architect, design and lead the efforts in securing the cloud solutionsA cents € cents Create a well-informed cloud strategy and regularly evaluate cloud applications, hardware, and softwareA cents € cents Responsible for gathering system requirements working with application architects, product owner, and technical leadsA cents € cents Responsible for generating scripts and templates required for the automatic provisioning of resourcesA cents € cents Discover standard cloud services offerings, install, and execute processes and standards for optimal use of cloud service provider offeringsA cents € cents Stay well-informed of failures and complications related to a cloud offeringA cents € cents Collaborate with the development teams to enable their applications to run on Cloud infrastructureA cents € cents Support client using Agile and DevSecOps MethodologiesA cents € cents Build and improve the CI/CD pipelinesA cents € cents Build and maintain highly available systems on Kubernetes with auto-scalingPosition is remote in Washington DC area only, and will periodically require being onsite at the Maximus McLean, Virginia office. Education and Experience:A cents € cents Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field with more than 12 years of relevant experienceA cents € cents At least 5 years of Cloud platform Engineering experience including architecting cloud solutions at an enterprise levelA cents € cents Direct experience with GCP and familiarity with AWSA cents € cents Development experience with programming/scripting languages: Java/J2EE, Python, JavaScript frameworks (NodeJS, Angular), Web ServicesA cents € cents Experience with Agile/continuous integration/DevSecOpsA cents € cents CI/CD pipeline implementation and usage - leveraging tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, Tower, Veracode, CAST, and test automation tools (IBM RFT, Selenium, etc.)A cents € cents Ability to influence peers and superiors (technical and business) the strategic direction of overall solutionAdditional Requirements as per contract/client:Green Card Holder / US Citizens only