This is a hybrid role.

Computer World Services, Corporation (CWS) is seeking an exceptional candidate to serve as Cloud Architect for the “Mission Applications Operations and Maintenance” Task Oder supporting The Department of State, Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), BPA for IDEA. INR is responsible for providing independent analysis of events to DoS policymakers and the broader Intelligence Community (IC). INR ensures intelligence activities support foreign policy and national security purposes and serves as the focal point at DoS for ensuring policy review of sensitive counterintelligence and law enforcement activities around the world. INR directs the DoS program of intelligence analysis and research, liaises with the IC, and represents the DoS on committees and in interagency intelligence groups.

As the Cloud Architect, the candidate will be responsible for applying expertise towards effective provisioning, installation or configuration, operation, and maintenance of the cloud environment for efforts as it relates to servers, VMs, security, software, encryption, hardware, and related infrastructure. The Candidate will plan, develop, implement, operate, maintain, monitor, and enhance mission applications operations and maintenance program to provide robust, reliable, efficient, and secure system function and availability across all security levels. This objective includes the full scope of IT systems administration, application delivery, and content and configuration management.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

• Responsible for overseeing and informing the development of the enterprise cloud computing system including cloud application designs, cloud approval plans, and cloud storage and management systems.

• Plan and coordinate essential system upgrades, security patches, and modifications, as well as any other planned systems maintenance.

• Ensure customers that operate services are promptly informed of systems changes and upgrades, and of system maintenance or interruptions.

• Coordinate with operators of other interconnected systems, intelligence community enterprise data standards governance bodies, other Department IT stakeholders, external government agencies, and other INR

• service consumers to identify requirements, impacts of planned and unplanned changes, and troubleshooting incidents.

• Responsible for addressing issues with systems integration, compatibility, and multiple platforms.

• Applies comprehensive methods for describing current and/or future structure and behavior of an organization’s processes, information systems, personnel, and organizational subunits to align with organization’s core goals and strategic direction.

• Addresses business architecture, systems relationships, performance management, and process architectures as well.

• Implement application enhancements for improving the reliability and performance of the application and business functions.

• Establishes and enforces processes to ensure a consistent, well managed, and well-integrated IT infrastructure.

• Design one or more applications or services within and organization solution development team.

• Gathers the requirements for a software solution from stakeholders.

• Responsible for the continuous maintenance of a system developed.

• Responsible for building strong relationships across the business and IT.

• Develop solution architectures, seeking practical solutions that optimize and re-use capabilities.

• Conduct discovery exercises and deep customer analysis and data reviews.

• Develop detailed assessments and recommendations for customer implementations.

• Communicate via multiple platforms and web meetings with customers, assisting and guiding them on the findings, potential opportunities, and solution paths

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