Azure Cloud Architect Engineer

GoAhead Solutions has a great opportunity for an Azure Cloud Architect/Engineer in Columbus, OH.  This would be a twelve month contract to start out with extension.  This position would require to be onsite three days a week.

Job Description: 
 Cloud Architecture, Solutions, & Engineering: Responsible for designing and developing cloud solutions in collaboration with agency cloud engineers; Acts as a subject matter expert on cloud architecture and services for a particular cloud provider. 

-Leads cloud architects and engineers with regards to architecture and technical implementation.

-Collaborates with Cloud engineers to ensure organizational best practices are implemented across the entire cloud portfolio. 

-Ensures Digital Architecture standards are applied; negotiates and documents tradeoffs with Digital Architecture as needed. 

-Understand and delivers security guardrails and frameworks; upholds cloud security best practices. 

-Support application rationalization, vendor interactions, and procurements for cloud services. 

-Work with agencies and other Company stakeholders to define technical drivers for procurement activities and evaluate vendor responses. 

-Participate in and drive Cloud Governance board activities. 

 Cloud Strategy: 

Develops and drives the end-to-end technical roadmap for existing and proposed cloud services and articulates impact on the broader strategy; develops innovative solutions and technical strategy. 

-Understands business objectives, industry standards, and technical drivers around cloud strategy and their impact on current and future implementations of cloud; makes decisions based on these inputs. 

-Provide technical oversight and guidance for infrastructure as code templates to adhere to Enterprise Architecture standards. 

-Makes recommendations on new procedures and overall approach in partnership with other cloud architects; negotiates and documents tradeoffs as needed. 

-Support annual cloud portfolio planning with agencies, in collaboration with Strategic Investment & Architecture team. 

-Owns Azure components of annual Cloud Strategic Plan 

 Knowledge: 

-Application Architecture 

-Service Design & Management 

-Cloud Strategic Plan Development 

-Cloud Governance 

-Disaster Recovery 

-Project Governance & Reporting 

-Agile Project Management 

-Cloud Risk and Compliance 

-Security Control Design 

-DevOps & DevSecOps 

-Enterprise Platforms 

-APIs & Containers 

-Code automation tools and languages (PowerShell, Terraform, ARM/Bicep, Puppet, Bash, Python, etc

 Other Duties:

-Responsible for providing technical oversight and guidance on all cloud services and deployable infrastructure. 

-Provides technical advisory to future and existing projects and programs. 

-Support buildout of financial operations reports and monitoring procedures, e.g., around resource utilization. 

-Assists with provisioning of cloud services and enablement of agency usage of state IaaS and PaaS offerings. 

-Works to establish guidelines, templates, best practices, and standards related to state cloud offerings. 

 Training and Knowledge Management: 

-Serves as a mentor and SME to cloud architects and engineers and ideates appropriate training and education for agencies on architecture and services. 

-Collaborates with HR and vendors to create: 1. training recommendations for CCoE & agencies and 2. conduct informational trainings e.g, overviews of major people, process, and tools changes.