Cloud Solutions Architect

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Must need 15+ years' experience consultant with minimum 8+ years in Cloud Solutions and Infrastructure with certification and IAM, Candidates who don't meet minimum expectations will not be considered by State of TEXAS

HHSC has issued a request for a Cloud Solutions Architect to support their TIERS project on their Social Services Applications team. This role will lead system integrations, design and implement infrastructure and software, and build out their cloud strategy. They are seeking candidates with both a Cloud Solutions Architect and Cloud Infrastructure certification with at least 8 years of experience engineering IT cloud solutions and IAM. EX- State/federal experience will be given preferences.

This is a remote role from anywhere within the US.

Cloud Solutions Architect

Remote

Long Term contract

$120/HR on C2C

Project Name: TIERS Eligib App Staff Aug

The Department of Information Resources (DIR) requires the services of One Cloud Solutions Architect hereafter referred to as Worker, who meets the general qualification of Cloud Solutions Architect 3 and the specifications outlined in this document for Health & Human Services Commission - Social Services Applications team. The Cloud Solution Architect will provide strategic guidance in the development process, make technical decisions regarding solutions and explain how they will impact the organization.

As part of HHSC IT Applications Social Services Applications initiatives, the Cloud Solution Architect 3 will be responsible for:

• Creating and leading IT system integration processes to meet the organization's needs
• Conducting regular evaluations of the system architecture and collaborating with project management teams to improve the designs
• Evaluating any project constraints and devising alternatives to reduce risks, whilst performing process re-engineering
• Analysing and finding any impacts that that technical changes may have on a client's business proceeding
• Planning and engineering of an organization's cloud computing infrastructure and applications. Implements and designs infrastructure and software.
• Defining and developing blueprints and roadmaps for building solutions in the cloud
• Ensuring solutions are engineered and deployed in the cloud.
• Building roadmap for cloud Strategy, implementation and monitoring
• Ensuring compliance with enterprise security configuration standards
• Providing Production support and ensuring system is up and running.
• Providing operational guidance both internal to the team, and for external operations teams
• Performing continuous research on emerging technologies to stay updated with the best alternatives, investigate and provide feedback on new services and solutions offered by the CSP
• Providing technical oversight, review, and quality control throughout the life cycle of the implementations
• Engaging with Cloud service provider around solving technical problems in the Cloud ecosystem
• Supporting DevOps functions to best utilize cloud resources with software configuration management and continuous integration tools.
• Leading and ensuring HHSC best practices and methodologies are applied to the design, deployment, and operations in the cloud.

The Cloud Solution Architect will perform other duties as assigned.

Education

Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in computer science, computer information systems, engineering, or management information systems is preferred.

Must certified in below:

• Cloud Solutions Architect Certification
• Cloud Infrastructure Certifications

II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Requirements:
Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.

Years

Required/Preferred

Experience

8

Required

Hands on experience in designing, executing, and supporting IT cloud solutions.

8

Required

Experience with technical architecture, cloud platform development, cloud strategy, IT strategy, and infrastructure strategy

8

Required

Hands-on development experience implementing applications utilizing any J2EE Application Server, Authentication and Authorization, Caching strategies

8

Required

Hands-on programming experience in the following languages: Java, J2EE, HTML5, JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, CSS3, Bootstrap, SASS, Angular, Typescript, Spring, Java Server Pages, JSON, XML, ES5/ES6, NPM, Maven and/or other UI frameworks/libraries.

8

Required

Experience implementing Client-facing applications with responsive design and development

8

Required

Experience implementing SPA (Single Page Applications) with JS or with libraries/frameworks like Angular

8

Required

Experience in development of self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components

8

Required

Experience in Test-driven development and test creation using frameworks such as Katalon, Karma, Jasmine, Selenium

8

Required

Demonstrable experience developing, optimizing, and maintaining an enterprise-level Angular application including complete ownership of the front-end stack (JavaScript/Angular/HTML/CSS).

8

Required

Experience with implementing the best practices in application design, performance, scalability, and maintainability.

8

Required

Experience with deployment and orchestration technologies (such as Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, OpenShift)

8

Required

Hands-on experience participating in all phases of Agile development

8

Required

Experience with cloud technology, including Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

8

Required

Hands-on experience with adjacent technology areas including Security, Identity / Access Management and Monitoring.

8

Required

experience with virtualized environments (VMware vSphere 5.x) and knowledge of provisioning hardware, storage, resources, and configuration/administration, including high-availability and failover services for cloud infrastructure

6

Required

Hands-on experience with IBM WebSphere Application Server 8 or later and JBOSS

6

Required

Hands-on experience with CI/CD methodology

6

Required

Hands-on development experience for mobile and tablet platforms

Skills :