Cloud Architect – Bethesda, MD

DUTIES:

Provide leadership oversight governance and strategic direction related to Cloud Services to enable the delivery of IT services
Oversee the documentation of all architecture design and analysis work
Represent the Infrastructure Delivery Team in project design and execution plans to align them with Infrastructure Delivery Projects and Roadmap
Establish a Cloud Asset Management Platform facilitating the normalization of billing provisioning and capacity management.
Partner with other Cloud architects to converge cloud footprints into an enterprise-grade cloud.
Provide input to the Marriott infrastructure architecture and governance model
Provide technical leadership oversight standardization and validation of the effectiveness for the Cloud Environment
Research design and implement high-performing software components that are standards-based highly available and secured delivering the required business functionality

Participate in the evaluation and selection of Infrastructure based products
Define Technical Infrastructure Architectures as they related to Software Solutions Architecture initiatives within EA and Software Delivery Lifecycles (SDLCs)
Institute governance based on best practices and ensure proper alignment to projects and major initiatives
Lead analysis of the current environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommends solutions for improvement
Lead analysis of technology industry and market trends to determine the potential impact on the overall Infrastructure architecture
Support Solution and Domain Architecture by providing architecture direction in terms of technology software and infrastructure for projects in the delivery life cycle
Consult with architecture teams to identify when it is necessary to modify the technical architecture to accommodate infrastructure needs.
Define and execute upon how to transition complex applications products and services from the Traditional IT datacenter environment to private and/or public cloud environments

Translation of project-level and enterprise-level infrastructure architectures from the Traditional IT (systems networking and/or storage) footprint to Cloud Native footprints
Partner with Cloud Service and other technology service providers
Function as a strategic senior technical expert within the department.
Develop specific goals and plans to prioritize organize and accomplish work.
Champion leaders vision for product and service delivery.
Make and execute the necessary decisions to keep moving forward toward achievement of goals.
Provide direction and assistance to other teams regarding projects.
Determine priorities schedules plans and necessary resources to promote completion of any projects on schedule.
Analyze information and evaluate results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
Support achievement of performance goals budget goals team goals etc.

REQUIREMENTS: Bachelors Degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or related technical field followed by 8 years of progressively responsible experience with infrastructure engineering and/or architecture.

5 years of experience in working with Cloud Infrastructure Architecture and Design with expertise in one or more of the following:
- Public Clouds (Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure and/or Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun)
- Infrastructure and Configuration Management as code Services (HashiCorp HashiStack: Terraform Vault Consul Nomad Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) Cloud Service Provider SDKs and APIs and/or Custom API Development (Web Services))

2 years of experience in working with Kubernetes Container-as-a-Service Platforms (Docker Enterprise Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise VMware EKS and/or Mesosphere)
2 years of engineering or architecture experience in enterprise systems that support 99.99% service availability in an Agile environment
3 years of experience with one or more of the following infrastructure technologies:
- Operating Systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Oracle Linux Windows and/or CentOS

- Storage: Local Block Storage Object Storage Cross Region Replication (XDCR) Backup & Recovery Best Practices
- Elastic Load Balancing Services Domain Name Services and Registration
- Security: Compliance Information Assurance Data Protection using industry-best practices and tooling ( Splunk Phantom/SignalFX HashiCorp Vault signers SHA1 and SHA2 certificate management)

- Applications Frameworks: Tomcat NginX HTML5 Angular JS
3 years of experience with both relational (Oracle DB2 PostgreSQL and/or MSSQL Server) non-relational (Cassandra Couchbase and/or MongoDB) database technologies and database caching technologies (Memcached Redis)

4 years of experience with cloud native database technologies (Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB and/or Amazon RDS Aurora)
2 years of experience in software development engineering (JavaScript Java Ruby Python Go)
Any experience with an enterprise cloud transformation effort
2 years of experience in retail and/or hospitality industries.

Telework: Hybrid position; part-time telecommuting authorized
Travel: Up to 5% domestic travel

SALARY: $137430 - $214400per year

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