Cloud Integrations Solutions Architect (Remote from anywhere in CO)

Description of Job

Day to Day Opportunities

• Establish scalable cloud hosting standards, policies, and SDLC frameworks to ensure secure, uniform multi-tenant service delivery across the enterprise.
• Architect and deliver robust IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and DBaaS solutions to maximize system performance, uptime, and operational cost-efficiency.
• Execute seamless hybrid-cloud migrations and deploy enterprise shared hosting services to reduce legacy infrastructure costs and modernize agency workloads.
• Accelerate software delivery cycles and harden environment reliability by embedding DevSecOps, cloud orchestration, and immutable infrastructure practices across teams.
• Standardize and promote reusable architecture and deployment patterns and CI/CD pipelines to shorten release cycles and improve deployment consistency.
• Adopt a product-lifecycle approach to cloud services, measuring success by user feedback, system reliability, and actual business outcomes.
• Resolve high-level multi-tenant engineering bottlenecks to ensure seamless, secure interoperability across agency systems.
• Translate strategic product roadmaps into production-ready cloud architectures through lifecycle analysis with product and operations leaders.
• Integrate best-of-breed security controls into all cloud designs to pass audits and secure GovRAMP, FedRAMP, FISMA, DoD IL4, and State compliance accreditations.
• Build robust data recovery and DR strategies to strictly enforce target RPO and RTO metrics.
• Validate active-active and active-passive failover capabilities through rigorous testing and BIA alignment.
• Evaluate cloud market research and feasibility studies to recommend data-backed technology investments.

Minimum Qualifications

• A minimum of five (5) years of experience working within Cloud based engineering.
• A minimum of three (3) years of professional, hands-on experience designing, architecting, and deploying enterprise-grade solutions specifically on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS), with demonstrated expertise in services such as GKE, Cloud IAM, BigQuery, EKS, AWS IAM, and R
• Experience designing secure, multi-tenant cloud environments with a focus on governance, compliance (e.g., FedRAMP, CJIS), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) within GCP and AWS environments.
• Experience with Mulesoft.
• Experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD.
• Familiarity with performing data research to determine proper data relationships and source validation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification is strongly preferred.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional) certification is a preferred credential.

Compensation

• A wide salary range is posted for this position and any job offer is based upon a salary analysis to comply with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act.
• The salary analysis considers relevant experience, education, certifications, and state seniority as compared to others doing substantially similar work.

Workplace and Conditions

• If this posting indicates 'remote from anywhere in CO' in the title, periodic reporting to the primary state work location designated for the position is required.
• All remote work must be performed in Colorado.
• The candidate selected for the position must relocate and reside in Colorado on the first day of their new position.
• This position may require travel within the specified geographic area, and to locations across the state as needed.
• A pre-employment background check will be conducted as part of the selection process.
• Post-employment background checks will be required for specific agencies as business needs dictate, which may include a polygraph exam, fingerprint-based criminal history search, reference checks, and a drug test.

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