Cloud Architect — WMATA (Onsite, DC Metro)

Velocity Talent is recruiting a Cloud Architect for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).

Location: Washington DC metro area fully onsite five days per week. Work is performed at WMATA sites:

• 4100 Garden City Dr Hyattsville MD 20785
  
• 300 7th St SW Washington DC 20024
  
• 2401 Mill Road Alexandria VA 22314
  

Engagement: Contract approximately 1920 hours a one-year base period with a six-month option period up to 18 months total.

About the role

WMATAs Digital Modernization Office of Service Delivery and Operations (SDAO) is seeking a Cloud Architect with extensive experience in enterprise cloud architecture IT infrastructure design cloud governance and cloud platform implementation.

This person will design implement manage and optimize cloud environments that support WMATAs business and technology objectives. The role requires expertise in cloud-native technologies infrastructure modernization security governance cost management and cross-functional collaboration. The Cloud Architect will provide strategic guidance on cloud adoption architecture standards and technology roadmaps aligned with enterprise architecture principles and operational requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design enterprise cloud architectures covering compute network storage security and application integration.
  
• Assess current cloud platforms and identify opportunities for standardization modernization automation and cost optimization.
  
• Create cloud infrastructure designs and implementation roadmaps aligned to WMATA business objectives.
  
• Develop cloud governance frameworks standards policies security controls and cost-management practices.
  
• Evaluate and recommend cloud technologies architecture patterns and technology stacks.
  
• Implement configure and deploy enterprise cloud environments.
  
• Lead migrations of applications services and data to cloud environments.
  
• Document current-state and future-state architectures diagrams workflows dependencies and operational procedures.
  
• Integrate cloud-native application services serverless functions containers microservices data orchestration tools and storage platforms.
  
• Monitor performance availability scalability security utilization and cost.
  
• Troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructure application and integration issues.
  
• Collaborate with developers infrastructure teams security teams and network engineers.
  
• Create architecture visualizations using Microsoft Visio or similar tools.
  
• Build cloud performance utilization and cost dashboards using Power BI or equivalent.
  
• Provide technical leadership across the design implementation and operational lifecycle.
  
• Support enterprise architecture governance and alignment with IT roadmaps.
  

Required experience

• 15 years designing developing and implementing IT infrastructure.
  
• 5 years specifically in enterprise cloud architecture.
  
• 5 years aligning cloud strategies and technologies with enterprise architecture standards and IT roadmaps.
  
• 5 years building comprehensive cloud architectures including network layouts storage solutions and compute resources.
  
• 5 years developing visual dashboards from raw data for cloud cost management using Power BI or a similar platform.
  
• 3 years of transit-industry experience.
  
• 3 years implementing architectural patterns and designs for data-analytics applications.