Senior Cloud Application Architect

The Georgia Department of Human Services (DHS) Office of Information Technology is seeking qualified candidates for the temporary contractor staffing position of Senior Cloud Application Architect Child Welfare Program in Atlanta Georgia.

Must be local to Metro Atlanta

• The Senior Cloud Application Architect will be involved in the design implementation and management of technologybased business solutions to meet business and technical requirements for Georgia Child Welfare Office of Information Technology program initiatives.
• In addition be accountable for analyzing and designing the infrastructure architecture.
• The ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization on architecture is critical.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and development of scalable and robust software application architecture ensuring alignment with business goals enterprise standards and industry best practices.
• Design implement and manage AWS Cloud architecture focusing on performance scalability security and cost efficiency.
• Implement containerized solutions using Docker Kubernetes etc.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate AI and machine learning technologies into our applications enhancing user experience and driving innovation.
• Architect and oversee the development of web applications using ReactJS and other modern web technologies optimizing for user experience and performance.
• Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to define technical requirements resolve architectural issues and ensure successful project execution.
• Help modernize existing architecture and core technologies.
• Owning the endtoend delivery of solutions which will include gathering technical requirement designing developing testing and releasing Infrastructure as Code.
• Analyze and implement configuration changes and assist in the design of cloud related solutions to meet both functional and technical requirements.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends providing recommendations for adopting new tools and technologies to improve our technology stack.
• Communicate with all parties involved including senior management developers architects and end users who may be based in different locations and time zones.
• Coordinate with and responsible for communicating with other teams within DHS and vendors as needed.
• Creating and updating applicable technical documentation. Review technical documents produced by vendors.

Required Experience:

• Bachelors degree in computer science Information Technology or Engineering.
• Minimum 12 years experience developing IT application architecture solutions for organizations business concerns.
• Demonstrated experience in Core Java / J2EE technologies such as concurrency JDBC Spring Hibernate etc. and Python programming languages.
• Extensive expertise in web technologies particularly ReactJS and related frameworks.
• Minimum of 4 years experience and in one or more cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP).
• Extensive working knowledge of Cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Microsoft Azure.
• Expertise in AWS Cloud architecture including EC2 S3RDS LAMBDA etc.
• Proficiency in messaging frameworks including Kafka JMSMQ and Active MQ.
• Experience with data modeling and database development including SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Excellent knowledge and experience of Microservices architecture Docker and Kubernetes.
• Development and build tools (GIT Jenkins Maven etc.).
• Knowledge of Front Middle and backoffice functions and applications.
• Knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle for Iterative Agile and traditional approaches.
• Create and maintain comprehensive architectural and design documentation ensuring that all technical solutions are welldocumented.
• Experience with release management and an understanding of architectural schematics.
• Excellent knowledge of CI/CD concepts and tools such as GitLab GitHub.
• Developing and deploying Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (CloudFormation Ansible Terraform etc.)
• Knowledge of cloud monitoring and alerting services and capabilities.
• Monitor and optimize application performance ensuring scalability as user demands grow.
• Ability to solve complex technical problems and accomplish tasks with minimal supervision.
• Collaborates with system analyst engineers programmers to design systems to support applications.
• Excellent communication skills verbal & written in English. To be able to communicate with IT teams and departments end users and vendors.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Ability to support project team to prioritize activities and provide deliverables as planned.
• Experience in BMC Control M Administration calendars and automated job scheduling system.

Desirable experience:

• Industry vendor certifications are desired (e.g. AWS Azure GCP or CNCF/Kubernetes certifications); although not essential if you have the experience and demonstrate the ability to work on these technologies.
• Strong background in Linux/UNIX administration (e.g. RedHat/CentOS 7/Alpine Linux).
• Experience with configuration management tools like Puppet and Ansible.
• Knowledge of one or more scripting languages (bash Powershell Python).