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Gama-1 Technologies Cloud Solutions Architect/Engineer in Silver Spring, Maryland
Preferred Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate; Microsoft Azure Architect
Technologies; Architect with Google Cloud Platform: Infrastructure
GAMA-1 Technologies, LLC is seeking a highly experienced remote Cloud Solutions Architect/Engineer to
support GAMA-1’s growing Cloud Services practice. In particular, the successful candidate will help
drive GAMA-1’s efforts to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA)
Cloud initiatives, which are intended to increase the bureau’s IT efficiency, improve IT delivery, and
reduce costs. The candidate must have extensive experience architecting and provisioning enterprise-level
Cloud services, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as
a Service (SaaS). The Cloud Solutions Architect will support the design and implementation of best of
breed cloud services across several major cloud service providers, including AWS, Google Cloud
Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure (Azure). This is a technical customer-facing role that will be
accountable for the end-to-end customer experience.
The successful candidate will support GAMA-1’s services and solutions to:
Evaluate and recommend best-fit, commercially-available, and FEDRAMP-compliant cloud
services utilizing various cloud models (i.e., public, private, hybrid) to support NOAA’s
mission and specific business, technical, and security requirements.
Support cloud optimization activities; performance and cost
Develops architecture solutions and evaluates alternatives for private, public and hybrid cloud
models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services.
Researches and recommends cloud architecture that will enhance internal and external platforms,
tools, and systems.
Develop architectural strategies/solutions to ensure application high availability in both hybrid
(on-premise / cloud) and fully cloud hosted applications to provide an ‘always on’ experience
Acts as a subject matter expert for cloud end-to-end architecture, including current and future
providers, networking, provisioning, and management.
Defines optimal design patterns and solutions for high availability and disaster recovery for
applications.
Ensures delivered solutions are realized in time frame committed; works in conjunction with
project owners to size, scope and identify risk.
Provides technical expertise in the diagnosis and resolution of an issue, including the
determination and provision of workaround solution or escalation to owners.
Ensures delivered solutions meets technical and functional/non-functional performance
requirements within.
Evaluate, design, and implement solutions for migrating on-premise applications to cloud hosting
solutions
Design, architect, and integrate cloud capabilities using FEDRAMP-certified leading cloud
providers that include Azure, AWS, and GCP.
Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to create a modernization roadmap and
architect solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects
and successful deployments, orchestrating key resources and infusing key infrastructure
technologies (e.g. Windows and Linux IaaS, Security, Management, Storage, Networking)
Provide high level cost and resource estimates for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a
Service (PaaS) and Software as Service (SaaS) offerings.
Use standardized process for mapping business needs to available cloud technology options,
including assessment of risks and possible mitigations
Architect, engineer, and deploy/provision secure and robust cloud services that include IaaS,
PaaS, and SaaS and support service quality, outage management, subscription management,
correlation of usage, and charges, and cost efficient solution architecture.
Use architectural design principles to develop robust, efficient, and secure cloud solutions based
on customer requirements.
Provide implementation guidance/support to the customer throughout the project life cycle.
Develop tools and documentation to enable the support organizations to resolve customer issues,
including complex technical scenarios dealing with the cloud architecture.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES
The successful candidate must be self-driven and possess the analytical skills to resolve challenging
technical issues, often through collaboration with other technical subject matter experts. The candidate
will serve a technical resource to the team regarding cloud engineering, security, performance,
deployment, and troubleshooting. The candidate must demonstrate the ability to think strategically about
the customer’s business needs and requirements, propose and architect appropriate solutions, and solve
technical challenges.
EDUCATION, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE
BS in Computer Science or related discipline
Preferred Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate; Microsoft Azure
Architect Technologies; Architect with Google Cloud Platform: Infrastructure
In-depth understanding of cloud computing technologies, IT business drivers, and emerging
computing trends and technologies.
7+ years of experience architecting and engineering enterprise Cloud Services (Iaas, PaaS, SaaS)
using leading cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, and Azure. Must include networking,
compute, storage, database, identify management/access control, monitoring, etc.
7+ years of experience migrating on-premise workloads to the public or hybrid cloud
environments and deploying cloud-ready applications.
Experience and understanding of large scale infrastructure deployments in enterprise-wide
environments required
Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior IT executives and
growing data services in large or highly strategic accounts
Extensive experience gathering business and technical requirements for Cloud Services-based
services and applications.
Extensive experience analyzing the customer’s current infrastructure and applications, developing
alternatives analysis for migrating to the cloud, and making recommendations on best-fit cloud
solutions and service providers.
In-depth working knowledge of FEDRAMP and extensive experience applying best practices for
building/deploying secure and reliable services and applications on FEDRAMP-compliant
Cloud platforms
Must possess in-depth understanding of networking principles and technologies and cloud
security practices.
Experience using coding languages such as Perl, Java, PowerShell, PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.
Experience architecting and building scalable, automated infrastructure
Experience with Amazon Web Services, code-defined infrastructure, configuration management
tools, and CI/CD
Experience with AWS Lambda and “Serverless” systems
Experience in large-scale enterprise IT environments
Experience in a consultative, client-facing consulting role
Understanding of load balancing, geo-redundancy, CDN, and VPN technologies.
Knowledge of Cloud Architecture patterns and strategies (including IaaS, PaaS, Security,
Compute, Storage and networking)
Functional knowledge of Infrastructure as Code – Automation using Ansible, Chef, Puppet
Powershell, Terraform, etc.
Excellent written, verbal, and analytical skills
Ability to obtain a Clearance
ABOUT GAMA-1
GAMA-1 is a rapidly growing technology business that is based in Greenbelt, Maryland. GAMA-1 Technologies provides strategic information assurance, information security, and business enterprise and networking solutions to the Federal Government. Our success is based on the utilization of industry and agency standards, establishment of standardized processes, and IT Services expertise. At GAMA-1, we believe employees should grow, achieve, and develop just as the company grows, achieves, and develops. GAMA-1 is committed to providing our employees with opportunities for career advancement throughout their employment. For more information, visit www.gama1tech.com
GAMA-1 is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
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