Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
THIS ROLE WILL BE ONSITE IN COLORADO SPRINGS COLORADO 3 DAYS A WEEK.
***US Citizenship is required for this role. Candidates for consideration must EITHER have a Secret OR Top Secret Clearance ***

The Cloud Architect will:
Architect, Design & Implementation of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) on AWS Gov Cloud or other cloud service providers.
Identify & define technical requirements to build new AWS (or other cloud service providers) based applications and architectures as well as migrate on-prem applications to the cloud leveraging cloud native services.
Use Terraform/Cloud Formations to deploy infrastructure as code (IaC) for AWS resources (or other cloud service providers).
Deploy and provision in a production environment AWS (or other cloud service providers) resources including IaaS: EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, ELB, IAM, Security Groups, Cloud Watch, VPC, Route53, Subnets, Routing Tables, Internet Gateways, certificates, autoscaling groups, PaaS services: EKS, ECR, ECS, Fargate, Code Deploy, Code Commit, and other SaaS services.
Evaluate Cloud Services requirements and make architectural/design recommendations for implementation, deployment, and provisioning up to IL-6 in AWS or other cloud service providers.
Design a hybrid architecture using key AWS (or other cloud service providers) technologies such as the Virtual Private Network (VPN), Transit Gateway, and Direct Connect (DX).
Work with and mentor a team of highly skilled engineers in building a state-of-the-art cloud environment that has the ability to scale and grow.

Security Clearance Required:
Minimum Secret clearance, prefer TS/SCI

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Security Clearance: Pre-existing, Active DoD Secret Clearance.
Degree: BS in an engineer field or applicable years of experience in Cloud architecture design and implementation

At least 5 years of demonstrated experience in/with:

• Deploying IL-4+ cloud assets from any provider (AWS, Azure, Oracle, etc.)
• Proficient in Terraform or Cloud Formations and at least one other major programming language

Additional Requirements:

• Must have at least 5 years experience leading the design and implementation of advanced cloud solutions
• Must have at least 5 years experience in a client-facing environment and interacting with technical and business stakeholders
• Strong knowledge in cloud-native services, serverless architectures, and container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Security Clearance: Pre-existing, Active DoD Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility
• Experience creating and maintaining an IL-4 to IL-6 GovCloud environment
• Relevant DoD, IC, and/or Industry work experience in Space Systems Command