SYSCOM, Inc. provides specialized information technology resources that possess the requisite skills and capabilities to deliver enterprise level solutions that help our client’s achieve their objectives. At SYSCOM, we have a proven process that brings the best and brightest resources into our organization. Our teammates have excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as coordination and organization skills. The objective of our approach is to ensure a high level of customer satisfaction.

SYSCOM’s client is seeking a Cloud Architect to work with product managers, development teams, and other engineering teams to deliver cloud-based solutions which meet the needs of the client.

Work location: The work is expected to be remote, but occasional onsite work could be requested at work location in Saint Paul, MN 55106.

Job duties and responsibilities may include but are not limited to the following:

Use project management principles and practices sufficient to determine program direction, plan work, set goals, and monitor and evaluate accomplishments.

Lead complex projects, write project plans, establish priorities, allocate resources/workloads in team environment. Sample project work may include:

Designing complex processes and measurement metrics
Applying research and analytical skills in evaluating new technologies
Providing technical decision making with limited resources and precedence
Developing specific solutions for unique and unprecedented problems
Analyzing technical problems and implementing solutions under tight time constraints
Using formal methods of systems analysis

Develop policy and procedure.
Create documentation, design, and technical artifacts in Microsoft Visio, Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
Use verbal and written communications to interact technically with staff and vendor representatives and functionally with users (present technical concepts to both technical and non-technical staff).
Present clear and concise reports to executive management/leadership.
Provide knowledge transfer

Minimum Qualifications – must meet ALL

Five years of Cloud Architect experience
At least two engagements with two different entities in a Cloud Architect role
Knowledge of Agile project management tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical staff/end-users.
Effective customer service skills, including the ability to interact frequently with end-users and other staff.
Sophisticated troubleshooting skills, including the ability to create and test hypotheses based on relative likelihood, and a willingness and ability to creatively consider all possible causes for a problem and test appropriately.

Cloud Design – Highly Desired Skills

Experience designing enterprise cloud solutions leveraging, Microsoft Azure, Amazon
Web Services, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Excellent understanding of cloud shared responsibility and security models
Secure system design and development principles to conform to state and federal
guidelines.
Demonstrated ability to architect complex solutions on public cloud infrastructure.
Experience with cloud Monitoring and Alerting Solutions, such as Azure Monitor, SCOM, SolarWinds, or others.
Experience providing governance around cloud services.
Experience in cloud migration planning, design, and process for large enterprise
organizations, applications, and database services.

Cloud Solution Implementation – Highly Desired Skills

Scripting with Python and/or PowerShell.
Experience with Infrastructure Configuration Solutions, such as Azure Automation, Azure Orchestrator, SCCM Desired State Configuration, Azure Desired State Configuration, Puppet, Chef, or others.
Designing and implementing with cloud IaaS and PaaS Services.
Knowledge and usage of AWS CloudFormation or Azure Resource Manager, Terraform and/or Azure Bicep.
Experience leveraging development pipelines, DevOps philosophies and working with infrastructure-as-code (IaC).

Headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, SYSCOM, Inc. is a US-based company whose mission is to create and deliver the right technology solutions, by teaming with our customers to understand their business needs and empower them to achieve their goals. Since 1982, SYSCOM, Inc. has been providing enterprise-wide solutions for a variety of private and public sector clients.

SYSCOM, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.