Cloud Infrastructure and Storage Architect, SME
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Cloud infrastructure and storage architect modernizing secure Azure and hybrid-cloud environments. Leading storage, DevSecOps, compliance, and enterprise infrastructure initiatives for SEC federal operations.
Responsibilities:
- Provide senior technical leadership for enterprise infrastructure architecture and modernization supporting the SEC ISS contract
- Translate mission and functional requirements into scalable, secure technical solutions across on-premises and hybrid/multi-cloud environments
- Lead cross-functional engineering and operations teams to improve reliability, automation, and service performance aligned to SEC OIT objectives
- Drive technology evaluations, proofs of concept, pilots, and demonstrations
- Ensure designs integrate with 24x7x365 enterprise operations and observability requirements
- Align architecture decisions with Zero Trust, FISMA, and SEC governance expectations
- Design, implement, and manage secure, highly available cloud environments
- Lead Azure cloud migration, modernization, infrastructure, and storage initiatives
- Design, configure, and administer Azure enterprise cloud environments
- Lead complex infrastructure and storage migrations, upgrades, modernization initiatives, and integrations across cloud and on-premises environments
- Support audit readiness, compliance, governance controls, and technical documentation
- Perform storage performance tuning, capacity planning, disaster recovery, business continuity, and risk assessment
- Integrate infrastructure, network, security, and operations teams
- Develop architecture governance, standards, and operational best practices
Requirements:
- US Citizen
- Ability to obtain and maintain SEC Public Trust (or higher if required)
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
- 12+ years of experience in enterprise IT infrastructure, including engineering, architecture, and administration of enterprise storage platforms
- Minimum 8 years of experience in IT infrastructure roles, including 5+ years focused on Azure cloud engineering and architecture
- Experience with IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS cloud hosting architecture/design patterns
- Proven experience managing multi-discipline infrastructure, server, storage, and system operations teams
- Experience translating functional and business requirements into scalable enterprise technical solutions and leading integration efforts
- Experience designing, implementing, and managing secure, highly available cloud environments for enterprise services
- Experience leading Azure cloud migration and modernization initiatives within regulated or compliance-driven environments
- Hands-on experience with Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Azure Containers, Kubernetes, Cloud Services, and related cloud-native technologies
- Extensive experience with enterprise storage platforms, SAN/NAS technologies, storage virtualization, and backup/recovery solutions
- Experience leading complex infrastructure and storage migrations, upgrades, modernization initiatives, and integrations across cloud and on-premises environments
- Experience supporting audit readiness, compliance requirements, governance controls, and technical documentation in federal or highly regulated environments
- Advanced expertise in storage performance tuning, capacity planning, disaster recovery, business continuity, and risk assessment
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
- Hands-on experience with Clustered Data ONTAP software
- Strong experience with Azure DevOps, Repos, Pipelines, and Boards
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert preferred
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate Certification preferred
- NetApp Certified Data Administrator (NCDA) or equivalent preferred
- Preferred experience with U.S. Federal Government environments and FISMA, NIST, OMB, and FedRAMP compliance
- Preferred experience supporting SEC or similarly regulated financial-sector federal agencies
- Preferred experience with observability, monitoring, and ITSM platform integrations
- Preferred hands-on experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, Ansible, GitOps toolchains, and automation frameworks
- Preferred experience implementing immutable infrastructure and policy-as-code controls
- Preferred experience leading architecture and modernization initiatives in 24x7x365 enterprise operations environments
- Preferred proficiency in Ansible, Python, and Bash scripting
- Preferred experience developing and enforcing infrastructure, cloud, and storage standards, policies, and operational best practices
- Preferred experience with FinOps, cloud cost optimization, and cloud resource governance
Benefits:
- Fully remote position
- Equal Opportunity Employer
- Military Spouse Employment Partnership (MSEP) partner
- Virginia Values Veterans (V3) Program partner
- Inclusive hiring practices
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