Cloud Architect

Overview:

TekWissen Group is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. Our client is a global operator, franchisor, and licensor of hotel, residential, and timeshare properties. The company is primarily focused on management, franchising, and licensing of its lodging properties. It also occasionally develops, acquires or renovates hotel and residential properties, directly and through partnerships, joint ventures, and other business structures with third parties.

Position: Cloud Architect

Location: Bethesda MD 20817

Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Contract

Work Type: Remote

Job Description:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience/certifications.

• 8+ years in an IT operational role supporting mission critical solutions or applications with 5+ years leading an infrastructure organization.

• 5+ years' experience in some or all of the following:

• Engineering role supporting storage, compute, and virtualization.

• Complex IT systems, data center infrastructure and software

• Security concepts and systems hardening techniques to secure PCI and PII information

• 3+ years' experience supporting business services running in the public cloud.

• Expert knowledge/experience in any of the following:

• Public Clouds/Virtual Private Clouds

• Amazon Web Services

• Microsoft Azure

• Ali Cloud

• Private Cloud InfrastructureOpenStack

• VMware / vRealize / VMware Integrated OpenStack

• Ability to design a global end to end architecture that supports high service availability

• Industry standard Operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux

• Solid understanding of some or all of the following:

• Operating Systems

• Type 1 and Type 2 Virtualization Hypervisors

• Software Defined Data Centers

• Enterprise-grade Datacenter Compute Hardware

• Storage: SAN, NAS, Object Storage, HDFS

• Networking - TCP/IP, QoS, OSPF, BGP, L2 Networking, Spine and Leaf Topologies, Core, Distribution and/or Access Topology, SASE

• Applications/Frameworks Tomcat, Play, Node.js, NginX, JavaEE, or HTML5

• Process DevSecOps, CI/CD

• Experience in core enterprise applications and/or application development tools

• Experience in developing, implementing, and maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Infrastructure Immutability, and/or API Driven Infrastructure

Preferred:

• Graduate Degree in a technical discipline

• Experience designing with application integration technologies (microservices, Web Services, REST)

• Lead and manage Well Architecture Framework (WAR)

• Experience in establishing and governing Cloud Center of Excellence ( CCoE )

• Experience with the contractual language supporting IaaS, PaaS and SaaS support models.

• One or more Cloud Certifications: CompTIA Cloud+, EMC Cloud Architect, AWS Certified Solutions

• Architect - Associate/Professional, VMWare VCP6: Cloud, Microsoft 70-533: Implementing Microsoft

• Azure Infrastructure Solutions, Google Cloud: Cloud Architect Professional

• Familiar with both relational (Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL) and non-relational (Cassandra, Couchbase, MongoDB) database technologies.

• Experience working with Docker, Jenkins Containers, Container Orchestration, and Modern

• Application PaaS (Pivotal Cloud Foundry, BlueMix, OpenShift Enterprise) solutions for application

• build and runtime management

• Supported infrastructure for retail and/or hospitality business

• Experience in developing and implementing strategic IT technologies and related processes, procedures, and decision support.

• Experience with business requirements gathering/analysis.

• Experience in researching emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products

• Experience in developing technology roadmaps and strategies

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity/affirmative action Employer (m/f/d/v) supporting workforce diversity.