Salary salary up to 160k + OUTSTANDING BENEFITS

This is Hybrid role in Washington DC

Our client a well respected Professional leader is seeking a Sr Cloud Architect to join their team in key role in their modernization of the IT organization. Highly visible and will have a seat at the table in decision making.

Position Summary

As a Cloud Architect you will be implementing and managing cloud solutions. This role demands a profound understanding of cloud services, especially in Amazon Web Services (AWS), with GCP experience being a substantial advantage. Your expertise will be critical in the development and management of our cloud-based infrastructure, DVELOPMENT UTILIZING KUBERNETES while ensuring seamless integration and efficient operation across our extensive range of business units. This role will be working teams on a global basis so much have the ability to adjust as needed.

Position Accountabilities

• Minimum 10+ years of application development/solution architecture experience required for this position.
• Design, implement, and manage cloud solutions in AWS, with GCP experience as an added advantage.
• Take ownership of the provisioning of Cloud services and products. Develop and manage infrastructure automation focusing on scalability and security.
• Work closely with software and AI engineer teams to meet project acceptance criteria, document requirements, support continuous integration and delivery, and mentor junior staff members in cloud technologies and best practices.
• Experience with Design, develop, and manage dev, test, and production environments, ensuring robust software configuration management throughout the application development lifecycle.
• Extensive understanding of Cloud Agnostic architectures using Kubernetes and other solutions.
• Extensive experience in implementing AWS EKS clusters, management and scaling of the clusters with a good knowledge of traffic in/ouflows via subnet configurations and gateways. Linux experience is a plus.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipeline, ensuring smooth deployments and integrations using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and containerization strategies.
• Development and Management of Kubernetes clusters within cloud environments, optimizing for performance and reliability.
• Utilize Terraform and other Infrastructure as Code to automate and manage cloud infrastructure.
• Work with serverless computing frameworks on AWS to enhance application scalability and efficiency.
• Work on Org Units, IAM roles to define efficient and cost-effective operating models for all of publication assets.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in an Agile setting, to provide architecture support on AWS
• Integrate and help manage legacy workflows using ArgoCD, Airflow, Jenkins, Bitbucket, and Bamboo pipelines.