IT Architect - Cloud Solutions

Description & Requirements

Maximus is looking for an IT Architect- Cloud Solutions.

The IT Architect - Cloud Solutions is responsible for public cloud enablement at Maximus, as a team member of the Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE).

Part of the CCoE role is to assist with the adoption of public cloud through architected frameworks, developing reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC), pipelines and sharing success stories where public cloud has been adopted.

The IT Architect - Cloud Solutions is responsible for Cloud IaC automation, modular code pipelines, such as self-service portals that enable teams to easily consume the public cloud(s) to build and manage AWS accounts, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects and Microsoft Azure subscriptions.

This role also requires the ability to deploy infrastructure guardrails through code that scale the enterprise cloud organizations by deploying resources managed through code that enable logging that feeds that data into Splunk.

Cloud governance is a key role of the CCoE where the IT Architect - Cloud Solutions will work with the Maximus cloud engineering, cloud delivery and cloud operations, project teams for notify them of non-compliance infrastructure resources.

As part of the CCoE governance role the CCoE collaborates closely with the security teams to enforce the written security and compliance standards as guardrails within the public cloud(s).

These guardrails help the project product and platform teams operate safely within the cloud(s).

The IT Architect - Cloud Solutions encourages continuous learning through demonstrating CCoE services that are available to projects deployed in the public cloud(s).

The IT Architect - Cloud Solutions must also develop and manage relationships and maintain healthy collaboration with key external technology partners and third-party vendors.

Reports to the Senior Director of CCoE.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Oversee the automation processes for daily activities, build activities and new feature and functionality with public and private cloud

- Interact with other team members and groups within the IT organization

- Help enforce the standards for server builds and services deployed in AWS and the private cloud by the cloud solutions teams

- Perform other duties assigned by leadership.

-Establish technology strategy, architecture, and plans for the project modernization effort.

-Understands the organizational and project direction, goals, and the technology eco system to determine how architecture frameworks should be implemented.

- Interface with engineering and other cloud teams across the organization to establish and enforce best practices and standards as guardrails with manual and auto-remediation, for non-compliant cloud resources.

-Provides direction on implementing feasible, cost-effective solutions to the overall Solution architecture using cloud services and products considering both functional and non-functional requirements.

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