Everforth ECS is seeking a Cloud Solution Architect to work remotely.
ECS is looking for a Solution Architect who is passionate about automation, enterprise transformation, and continuously driving innovation. Strong candidates will have a desire to modernize existing architecture and establish innovative new architectures, while driving strategic initiatives that take advantage of modern approaches to technology, business delivery, and data.
The Solution Architect is responsible for designing sustainable cloud architectures in AWS and other Cloud Service Provides, while also supporting and building teams that will operate those architectures. They will play a strategic role in painting a vision while merging technical, business, and customer needs into achievable objectives and driving the completion of those objectives. As an expert in delivering technical projects, the Solutions Architect will identify challenges and improvements, then help a multi functional team solution and deliver those improvements.
Responsibilities:
- Independently applies a wide set of engineering disciplines for planning, design, analysis, coding, testing, roll-out and support of information systems architectures.
- Continuously optimizing AWS Cloud platform services across all integration points.
- Interact closely with key project stakeholders to design, plan and implement operationally sustainable solutions.
- Work closely with the technical team to deliver proposed designs.
- Provide thought and design leadership.
- Serve as a technical SME for cloud services, providers, and platforms.
- Lead solution architecting sessions evaluating trade offs between design, risk, and cost.
- Problem solve challenges as they arise.
- Adapt designs to new requirements or discoveries.
- Leverage data driven approach to continuous solution, organization, and workforce improvement.
- Optimizes performance across multiple teams by suggesting delivery process transformation towards evolving best practices based on each team and project context.
Salary Range: $150,000 - $200,000
General Description of Benefits
Preferred Qualifications- Bachelors Degree
- Minimum of 10 years of related experience including a broad background in various technology solutions, including:
- Cloud Services
- Infrastructure Automation
- DevSecOps
- Open Source Ecosystems
- Application Programming
- Service Oriented Architecture
- Enterprise Architecture
- Demonstrates a deep working knowledge of all aspects of Cloud Development Platforms.
- Including: IT operations, Virtualization, Containerization, Networking, Storage, Disaster Recovery, Security Policy and Controls implementation, System Management, and Data Migration.
- Demonstrates expertise in enterprise solution design, SOA models and approaches to enterprise cloud solutions, and promotion of architecture principles along with conducting research in specific technology areas and being up-to-date with the latest of industry trends on application architectures.
- Possesses significant expertise in the existing cloud computing technology: public, private, and hybrid, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
- Demonstrates very good written and oral presentation skills and outstanding client-interaction skills.
- Thinks creatively and demonstrates the ability to work independently, or with a group, on complex tasks with little direction, supervision, and management oversight.
- Must successfully complete a stringent Background Investigation.
- U.S. Citizenship is a requirement.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree
- Minimum of 10 years of related experience
- Expertise in Cloud Services
- Experience with Infrastructure Automation
- Knowledge of DevSecOps
- Experience with Open Source Ecosystems
- Understanding of Application Programming
- Expertise in Service Oriented Architecture
- Experience in Enterprise Architecture
ECS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ECS and has not been reviewed or approved by ECS.
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Healthcare Strength — ECS advertises multiple national-network medical plan options with HSA eligibility alongside dental and vision coverage. Coverage generally begins quickly and is paired with company-paid short- and long-term disability, adding stability to the health package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with Safe Harbor and immediate vesting on employer contributions is emphasized, with an employer match available. Access to an employee stock purchase plan via the parent company provides an additional savings avenue.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave up to 30 days, adoption assistance, and other family-oriented leaves are highlighted. Feedback suggests these offerings add meaningful value beyond base pay for many roles.
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What We Do
ECS, a segment of ASGN (NYSE: ASGN), delivers advanced solutions and services in cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), application and IT modernization, and science and engineering. The company solves critical, complex challenges for customers across the U.S. public sector, defense, intelligence and commercial industries. ECS maintains partnerships with leading cloud, cybersecurity, and AI/ML providers and holds specialized certifications in their technologies. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, ECS has more than 3,400 employees throughout the U.S. and has been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for the last five years.
