DOES THIS SOUND LIKE YOU?

• Master of Your Domain: You are renowned for architecting and implementing scalable cloud solutions that are secure, cost-effective, and robust. With a deep understanding of AWS services, you efficiently manage infrastructure components, ensuring the deployment of resilient systems tailored to organizational needs.
• Embrace Synergy: You excel in collaborative environments, working closely with IT teams, developers, and business stakeholders. Your expertise is crucial in leading root cause analysis and solving complex application issues across both production and test environments.
• Proactive Leadership: Always ahead of the curve, you seek out and capitalize on opportunities to enhance the architecture, deployment, and management of cloud infrastructures. Your foresight in cloud strategy and implementation not only meets current demands but also anticipates future needs, ensuring seamless scalability and optimized performance.

THE HIGH LEVEL

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Cloud Solution Architect to lead our cloud infrastructure initiatives, focusing on AWS GovCloud solutions for the Veterans Health Administration Office of Connected Care (VHA OCC). The ideal candidate will possess deep technical expertise in cloud architecture, infrastructure as code (IaC), extensive experience in designing and implementing cloud-based solutions, and strong leadership skills to drive cloud adoption and best practices across the organization.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Collaborate with contracted development teams to design and implement systems that align with strategic goals.
• Contribute to the development and documentation of critical workflow processes, ensuring a focus on security and efficiency
• Contribute to the observability, monitoring, and optimization of AWS microservices architecture
• Monitor project progress, adapting strategies to meet changing needs and challenges
• Help evaluate and implement new technologies to enhance our capabilities
• Contribute to the development and refinement of processes to boost business efficiency and effectiveness
• Provide oversight and manage the iterative approach to application development projects that focus on continuous releases that incorporate customer feedback
• Develop and effectively present/communicate and then carefully manage plans tailored to each new feature or application, maintaining responsibility for overall project success from start to finish
• Help coordinate efforts across numerous teams through frequent and effective communication
• Provide cross-functional consultative services to our stakeholders during development and troubleshooting
• Regular and reliable attendance
• Additional duties as assigned

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE

• Good understanding of AWS Gov Cloud, VA Service environments.
• Experience with quality assurance processes for CI/CD pipeline and experience with AWS.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or a related field
• Minimum of 5 years experience in cloud architecture and solution implementation
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or similar certifications
• Strong understanding of microservices/container architectures using Kubernetes
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a complex and dynamic environment
• Functional skills with Infrastructure as Code & Automation (Jenkins), Containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), Observability & Monitoring (AppDynamics, Istio, Kibana, Kiali, Grafana, Splunk, Dynatrace), Software Component Management (Nexus), Active Directory (LDAP, DNS, Account Management), Databases (MongoDB, Oracle, MSSQL)

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

This position is fully remote and may require up to 10% travel for quarterly review meetings.

WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT

• Impact and Innovation: Thrive in a role where your contributions significantly shape the cloud infrastructure of the organization. Your work will ensure that critical systems are robust enough to handle updates and changes during peak business hours without disruption, reflecting the high standards of reliability and performance that you establish.
• Strategic Influence: Enjoy the satisfaction of seeing your strategic decisions being implemented across the organization. Your leadership in cloud solutions will directly enhance business operations, enabling safer, more efficient releases and deployments that support the organization's growth and adaptability.
• Iron Bow is rapidly growing and with growth comes opportunity for all.There is palpable energy and momentum across the company that is easy to tap into and be inspired by.
• Now's the time to join. Iron Bow is redesigning the customer and employee experience. This new approach elevates all and truly enables success.

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