Immediate, long term contract opportunity with our customer, a Federal Healthcare Insurance organization in Washington DC (100% remote right now, could be hybrid onsite/remote in 2023). We are seeking a Cloud Architect / Strategist to assist our client with their cloud journey. Currently, our client is on-prem with the goal to be off-prem (migrating to AWS) in 2023. They are seeking a Cloud Architect to help create a deployment strategy / road map / blue print on how they are going to deploy their applications and what frameworks they should adopt. The selected candidate should have completed a similar journey in their past.

Want to learn more? Then you should contact Elite Technical right away for consideration!

Required Skills

- Min. of 10 years of cloud experience (preferable AWS) with at least 2-3 cloud migration projects as an Architect / Visionary SME.
- Ability to put together a POC (Proof of Concept) and assist with the roadmap of how to go from on-prem to off-prem
- Ideally, AWS focused cloud experience (open to other platforms)
- Must have Ansible experience
- Must have standard DevOps tech stack knowledge (Jenkins, Kubernetes, Bit Bucket, Artifactory)
- Designing and building scalable solutions integrating technologies in hybrid on-prem and cloud environments.
- Extensive experience in the design and development of deployment frameworks that comprise multiple technologies supporting goals of continuous integration and deployment to hybrid (on-prem and cloud) environments. Extensive experience in the development of integration with source repositories, code quality tools, development of pipelines especially using pipeline as code implementations.
- Experienced architecting and automating cloud technologies, deploying apps, and provisioning infrastructure
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), using Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Very strong verbal, written, and presentation skills and (Critical)
- Ability to facilitate technical requirements gathering and design sessions