Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Job Title: Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Work Location: Lansing, MI

Hybrid

Overview / Summary

This role supports mission-critical applications and services by designing, maintaining, and validating infrastructure architecture, data management strategies, and system integrations while ensuring alignment with enterprise standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide Infrastructure Architecture support.
• Coordinate and integrate system data models and designs to promote data sharing, eliminate redundancy, and optimize the use of data resources.
• Coordinate with and provide technical guidance to the Project Manager in developing project plans.
• Coordinate with data stewards to develop, communicate, and enforce data classification policies and standards.
• Create and maintain the metadata repository, including formal data descriptions, data structures, and data flow diagrams.
• Create, maintain, and verify system-level designs.
• Define and enforce data standards, procedures, and guidelines to ensure data integrity, quality, usability, and security.
• Develop an Information Architecture Model consistent with Enterprise Information Management.
• Develop and maintain the statewide data model to support integrated use across applications.
• Develop and manage configuration management standards, processes, and policies.
• Document application controls required to meet security standards.
• Ensure data integration with internal organizations and external business and IT communities.
• Evaluate and recommend software fixes to resolve issues.
• Facilitate and lead application environment consolidation, migration, and integration efforts.
• Gather, organize, and track IT solution requirements and issues.
• Lead implementation activities for IT solutions.
• Recommend software integration approaches for existing applications.
• Develop data management strategies to ensure data security and appropriate data retention.
• Prepare and facilitate SDT sessions.
• Provide data modeling and design guidance, including identifying data entities, dependencies, and relationships.
• Recommend infrastructure solutions based on TIA of proposed infrastructure changes to ensure feasibility and cost-effectiveness.
• Review Enterprise Architecture Solution Patterns, Reference Models, and Solution Assessments for application design guidance.
• Revise and validate project management documents using DTMB PMM and SEM.
• Revise and validate technical designs, specifications, and diagrams.
• Verify the architectural integrity of the application environment.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree.
• 8+ years of RHEL experience.
• 8+ years of Windows Server experience.
• Exposure to Application Architecture.
• Familiarity with application servers such as WebLogic, WebSphere, or JBoss.
• Experience designing and architecting native and hybrid cloud deployments on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

Most Desired Skills

• SQL and Oracle knowledge.
• State Government experience.

Other Desired Skills

• 3+ years of Network Administration experience.
• 3+ years of SQL experience.
• 5+ years of experience creating, updating, and maintaining systems documentation.
• Experience using architecture and diagramming tools such as Visio, Lucidchart, and Draw.io.
• Experience administering and architecting IIS, Apache, and WAF.
• Experience architecting redundant and scalable Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database deployments.
• Experience securing networks, web applications, and databases.
• Exposure to programming languages such as C#, Java, Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Experience with CI/CD tools including Ansible, Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory, and Veracode.
• Exposure to IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS deployments.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and CloudFormation).
• Experience architecting container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or OpenShift.
• Cloudflare experience.