Cloud Architect

TRISTAR is seeking a Cloud Architect for our upcoming government customer in MacDill AFB, FL

• The Cloud Architect will support PEO SDA, USSOCOM Components, TSOCs, and others to include Foreign Military Sales (FMS) as mission dictates, by providing technical and analytical mission planning, execution, and post-mission system support
• Mission planning is critical to special operations, the mission planning, execution, post-mission system/device will be maintained in a serviceable status to support combat/contingency operations
• The overall goal will be to achieve a system/device availability of 95% and a maintenance turnaround time of less than 24 hours from the time of notification within Continental United States (CONUS) and manned Outside the Continental United States (OCONUS) locations
• Support will be characterized by two (2) levels: Level I (Critical/Urgent) support will be defined as critical or emergency support to the mission planning and execution system/device
• This level of support will be completed within 72 hours or as mission requirements dictate
• Level II (Routine) support will be defined as cyclical support to the mission planning and execution system/device
• This level of support will be completed within 30 days or as mission requirements dictate

Position Responsibilities

• The cloud architect is responsible for designing and implementing cloud computing solutions
• The Cloud Architect facilitates the development of the right future-state architecture and ensure its effective adoption
• Provide overall direction, guidance and definition of architecture programs that effectively supports government operations
• Responsibilities include advocacy and support of the enterprise's IT strategies, identification, and analysis of enterprise business drivers to derive useful business context, analysis of the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement, and the development of strategies aligning IT to business
• Designing the cloud infrastructure, designing the cloud application architecture, and designing the cloud security architecture
• Maintain systems and network infrastructure
• Provide end user and common device support
• Provide configuration, change, license, and asset management
• Conduct training, and perform Install, Move, Add, Change (IMACs) services
• The responsibilities and tasks associated with each requirement play a pivotal role to USSOCOM, and ultimately the end-user who operate around the world 24 x 7 x 365

• Experience with cloud computing, including the various cloud deployment models, cloud service models, and cloud deployment architecture
• Previous experience supporting an enterprise IT environment for a DoD COCOM or similar level organization
• Prior experience supporting cloud migration efforts required
• MUST be a US Citizen
• An ACTIVE Top Secret Clearance with SCI Eligibility is required

Education and/or Certification

• Bachelor of Science with 10-12 Years experience, or Master of Science with 8-10 years experience, or PhD with 5 years experience in a related field is required
• DoD IAT Level II certification required
• AWS or AZURE or Google cloud certifications - i.e. AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Fundamentals, Google Associate Cloud Engineer or higher required

TRISTAR is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a commitment to diversity. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.