Contract Labor Category, Education, & Experience:
Software Engineer – Senior: Masters +10yrs, or Bachelors +12rs
Software Engineer – Intermediate: Bachelors +5yrs or Associates +7yrs
Required Certifications:
- CompTIA Security+
- Computing Environment (CE) Certification (i.e., MCSE, Server+, etc.) – can be waived for 30 days after project join date.
Position Requirements:
This position is for a Client Solutions Architect supporting the ALTESS commercial cloud customers who reside in Microsoft Azure (Gov/DoD). ALTESS is a managed service provider (MSP) for Army IT systems and we support enterprise applications owners hosted in private and public cloud environments.
JOB DUTIES:
- Participate and lead technical requirements gathering sessions with customers interested in migrating their IT system to ALTESS
- Collaborate with internal and external parties to transform high-level technical objectives into comprehensive technical requirements
- Based on customer’s technical requirements, develop an architecture for the customer’s IT system
- Create all the required architecture documentation and diagrams and create a Technical Data Package for the customer’s IT system
- Assist with identifying and planning potential new managed services, features and capabilities
- Serve as overall subject matter expert on Windows technology and market capabilities/trends
- Troubleshoot and resolve operating system, application and networking issues in a complex and highly secured environment
- Make recommendations for improvements to security, scalability, manageability and performance across a wide variety of network, storage and computer technologies
- Contributing to the ALTESS ongoing automation efforts
- Managing multiple customer application migrations simultaneously
SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience developing cloud based architecture solutions based on customer requirements
- Knowledge of private/hybrid/commercial cloud environments
- Mid to senior level Windows Administrator experience
- Security+ (Or equivalent IA cert) and computing environment certification (i.e. MCSA, etc.)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Experience effectively managing multiple large-scale projects
- Experience automating routine administrative tasks desired
- Understanding of network, storage, server, and application technologies
- Strong knowledge of automation concepts, tools and scripting languages (PowerShell, DSC, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc.)
- Working knowledge of DoD STIGs and IA Vulnerability Management (IAVM)