AWS Cloud Architect – Manager

Role Overview

• Manage the team ensuring the cloud infrastructure meets security, performance, and scalability requirements
• Lead, mentor, and develop staff, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement
• Implement, and deploy services using best practices for service delivery, incident management, and problem resolution, ensuring compliance with SLAs and KPIs
• Work closely with operations, application development, and business area to ensure alignment of cloud services with overall requirements and objectives
• Organize, direct and coordinate planning and execution of engineering activities, and review the work of subordinates, including subcontractors, to ensure that the schedule, standards, and reporting responsibilities are met
• Identify and mitigate risks that could impact program success, develop risk mitigation strategies, and facilitate resolution
• Provides leadership during Transition-In, ensuring continuity of operations, minimal disruption to mission-critical services, and effective risk identification and mitigation
• Setting team priorities, strategic vision, maintaining quality and product roadmaps
• Establish organization policies, standards, and engineering procedures
• Tracking project progress, monitoring performance against established SLA’s, metrics, and taking corrective actions as needed
• Ensuring that all project deliverables meet defined quality standards and requirements
• Identifying opportunities to improve engineering practices and documentation to enhance delivery quality and speed
• Conduct design reviews, system integrations, and develop comprehensive as-built and runbook documentation
• Implement and manage performance monitoring tools and processes to ensure optimal system performance and availability
• Implement automation solutions, leveraging tools such as Ansible and various scripting languages, to streamline hosting operations and reduce manual intervention
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Present architectural designs and recommendations to executive leadership
• Mentor, guide and supervise development teams on cloud-native application design and deployment
• Lead architectural reviews and provide guidance on complex technical decisions
• Assess employee performance, hire new employees, and ensure compliance with corporate training requirements for Leidos employees

Requirements

• Bachelors and 12+ years or more of experience; Masters and 10+ years or more of experience
• Secret clearance required to start
• US citizenship required
• Certifications: CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (IAT-2)
• Certifications: One or more cloud certification
• Excellent customer service skills, with experience working in a customer-facing position
• Administration experience with cloud-based applications
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Experience with various cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings
• Experience onboarding customer log-data from cloud platforms to on-premise or cloud-based analysis environments such as Elastic or Splunk

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• Cloud
• Splunk

Benefits

• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave
• Retirement