Senior Cloud Architect

- Study, analyze, recommend, and ultimately design and build new hybrid cloud-based environments for DCO-S cloud initiatives, ensuring that critical applications are optimized for high availability and disaster recovery. - Integrate capabilities and models into the new cloud-based environment. - Define requirements for the DCO-S throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC), including integrating, upgrading, and sustaining the hybrid cloud-based environment. - Back decisions with research and articulate options, pros, and cons for each recommendation. - Develop solutions architectures and evaluate architectural alternatives for hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services. - Guide the migration of legacy systems to a modern cloud platform solution and assist with adoption into the DCO-S solution. - Design enterprise and systems security throughout the cloud development life cycle; translate technology and environmental conditions into security designs and processes. - Develop security requirements that mitigate risk while maintaining cybersecurity operational capability across the USSF enterprise. - Maintain knowledge of and stay updated on industry best practices, trends, and emerging technologies, evaluating their potential impact on DCO-S software development strategies and possible implementation. - Verify architecture against DCO-S program requirements and goals, including participation in technical discussions, trade studies, and working groups. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, UX/UI designers, and quality assurance, to define and deliver software solutions that meet DCO-S requirements and customer needs. - Interface with USSF Test Enterprise leadership and training/program managers to explain security goals and mitigations relative to their priorities of cost, schedule, and performance. - Provide regular updates, reports, and presentations on DCO-S software development progress, achievements, and challenges to stakeholders and senior management. - Establish and enforce quality assurance protocols to guarantee dependable, secure, and regulatory-compliant software solutions. - Champion process automation to reduce manual steps and improve reusability of solutions. - Utilize cloud services and technologies to architect and develop scalable and reliable software solutions.