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.

Flexible work from home options available.