Cloud Architect

Astadia has built its reputation over the last three decades by providing the most innovative solutions in the area of Managed Services and Legacy Mainframe Modernization. Our solutions focus on providing our customers with the results necessary to improve their productivity and business performance while reducing their cost of operation. Our unique methodology, processes and best practices ensure these results for our clients. Continually striving to offer the highest customer service in the industry, we have gained esteem as the Mainframe to Cloud Experts.

LEGACY MOD
Our Legacy Modernization team drives change through our client’s entire organizations. The business decisions which dictate a migration from an aging mainframe to a distributed or cloud-based modern environment affect not only a client’s revenue, but their daily processes. Modernization gives our client’s the ability to grow and change with technology; saving them money on hardware maintenance contracts while giving them the flexibility to pivot as the economy does.

Our team of experienced Software Architects design and plan our client’s modernization journey to the platform of their choice, while our Software Engineers transform millions of lines of code. Our DevOps Engineers and Testers modernize our client’s development processes while our COBOL and Mainframe specialists focus on the migration efforts themselves. These projects can be large or small and give all of our team members the chance to work with professionals with a wide base of skillsets.

SUMMARY/ROLE:

Astadia’s Sr. Cloud Architects provide cloud engineering and DevOps services to our clients on a variety of projects types, most importantly is mainframe migrations as our core business, and other areas where our clients need to focus on DevOps frameworks to advance their maturity. The Sr. Cloud Architect will be responsible for forming and providing architectures that meet the migrations needs and the client needs. Also, the role will be responsible for cloud-services implementations using the latest CI/CD processes. These processes focus on infrastructure as code using ARM Templates, Desired State Configuration (DSC), and PowerShell for the Azure cloud. And for AWS, the role will be using CloudFormation, Ansible, and/or Terraform depending on the client directions. The role will be responsible for the technologies of pipeline automation using Jenkins and/or Azure Pipelines.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Interface with internal team members and clients to provide cloud-based services
• Provide the expertise the team needs to maintain the high level of Cloud and DevOps knowledge needed by our clients
• Work with various Cloud and DevOps technologies
• Deliver Cloud and DevOps technologies to clients both internal and external
• Thrive in an environment of collaboration and change
• Work within established modernization standards and best practices

SKILLS REQUIRED FOR THE POSITION

• Hands on Azure configuration management using ARM Templates, Desired State Configuration, and PowerShell.
• Hands on AWS configuration management using CloudFormation.
• Hands on experience using Azure Pipelines, Repos, Artifacts, and Boards.
• Hands on cloud engineering in Azure and AWS.
• Hands on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with code analysis tools using SonarQube and AppScan.
• Experience with code testing frameworks using Selenium and Cucumber.
• Experience with TFS, GIThub, and CodeCommit.
• Experience with CI/CD platforms and jobs using Jenkins, Ansible, Packer, Vagrant, and Terraform/CloudFormation a plus.
• Experience with DevOps models.
• Experience with integration of tools in DevOps including Jenkins, JIRA, Slack, Selenium, Nexus, GITHub, and TFS.
• Minimum 5+ years experience in Azure.
• Minimum 3+ years in DevOps and CI/CD.
• Excellent verbal, presentation and written communications skills.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or technical field experience equivalent.

Bonus skills:

• Prior knowledge of mainframe systems is a bonus to include:
• Micro Focus Visual COBOL, Micro Focus Enterprise Developer, Micro Focus COBOL Server, Micro Focus Enterprise Server
• Unisys: ECL, TIP, DMS, DPS1100, Mapper, LINC, MASM, Algol, Fortran
• IBM: COBOL, CICS, IMS, DB2, IMS-DB, Assembler

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

Undergraduate degree or 20+ years of comparable work experience; educational concentration in Information Technology or similar field is preferred

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

• Up to 10% monthly depending on location.

LOCATION/WORKING ENVIRONMENT

• This job works remote / home-based.

CORPORATE CULTURE AND VALUES

Astadia’s foundation for our success is our corporate culture, based on our values and principles. These include the highest level of commitment to integrity, quality, performance and teamwork. These are not just words. We not only assess and evaluate all employees on performance, but on how they live up to our core values and principles. Astadia is committed to continual development of our employees that allows future growth and career advancement to provide the means for a long-term career. We need great people to do great things!

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $0.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Cloud Architecture: 10 years (Required)

Work Location:

• Fully Remote

This Company Describes Its Culture as:

• Detail-oriented -- quality and precision-focused
• Outcome-oriented -- results-focused with strong performance culture
• Team-oriented -- cooperative and collaborative

Company's website:

• www.astadia.com

Benefit Conditions:

• Waiting period may apply
• Only full-time employees eligible

Work Remotely:

• Yes