Job Description

Agency

Department of Information Technology

Division

Chief Deputy SCIO

Job Classification Title

Cloud Architect (NS)

Position Number

60087477

Grade

DT12

About Us

The N.C. Department of Information Technology (NCDIT) serves as the Technology Center for the State of NC. Services that NCDIT provides reach a client base of state and local government agencies, as well as schools, colleges and universities. NCDIT’s mission is to enable trusted business-driven solutions that meet the needs of North Carolinians. NCDIT provides technology services to state agencies and is charged with closing the digital divide by expanding availability of broadband services and promoting the adoption of affordable, high-speed internet.

Description Of Work

Salary Range: $101,416-177,477

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We currently have an opening for a Cloud Architect

This position may be eligible for hybrid remote work in accordance with state policy and the agency’s remote work program but does require weekly onsite work

The position is designated Statutory Exempt and is exempt from the State Human Resources Act.

This position is responsible for planning, engineering, and assisting in designing systems to support state agencies utilizing the DIT Infrastructure and Services. This role is expected to be a technical architect and subject matter expert on all IT infrastructure, including multiple Cloud Platforms and native services (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform), Networking (routing, load balancing, VPN, DNS, DHCP), Cybersecurity (Network Security, Cloud Security Posture Management, and Identity and Access Management), compute resources (Virtual Machines, containers, serverless computing) and storage (databases, cloud storage, backups). It requires thorough knowledge of IT governance, compliance, and service management.

This role also involves system analysis and design creation, ensuring that business problems are fully understood, detailed requirements and business needs are captured, and alternative solutions are investigated and proposed.

One of the key responsibilities is to create architectural models and diagrams of existing agency applications from multiple disciplines (business, systems, information, and technology) and architecting those for a public cloud vendor, ensuring the application takes advantage of the scalability and elasticity of the cloud, meets the highest security standards, and achieves the required performance.

Duties Include, But Are Not Limited, To

• Writing detailed design documents that outline the structure, components, and configuration of cloud infrastructure, specifically in the areas of networking, security, identity and access management (IAM), resilience, and observability.
• Continuously optimizing cloud infrastructure for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness through automation, monitoring, and capacity planning.
• Developing and enforcing governance models, ensuring cloud solutions comply with statewide security policies, security standards, and best practices.
• Analyzing, designing, researching, and assisting with the development of the architecture for cloud-based applications or applications migrating to a cloud vendor. Key aspects of relevance include performance, security, reliability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of the solution.
• Defining standards, best practices, and reference architectures for cloud usage across the enterprise, and translate these reference architectures into solution blueprints, which can then be leveraged by application owners.
• Collaborating with agencies to define and build reference architectures for new technologies not yet adopted within the enterprise.
• Overseeing the technical aspects of IT projects, including design, implementation, and testing. Serves as the technical leader, providing guidance and direction across different infrastructure architectural domains like networking, security, IAM, resiliency, and observability
  
  

About The Division

The Identity & Converged Platform – Cloud team’s focus is to bring secure, cost-effective, cloud and/or on premise-based technical solutions into service for State agencies. As part of the Identity & Converged Platform within the Department of Information Technology, the Cloud team brings and supports new IT cloud services for its customers. The Identity & Converged Platform – Cloud offers a rich, complex, and continuously evolving environment where multiple teams work together to meet agency’s needs and challenges within the everchanging IT landscape.

Knowledge Skills And Abilities/Management Preferences

The following Management Preferences are not required, but applicants that possess these skills are preferred:

• Knowledge of automation and orchestration of Infrastructure, using IAC, agile and SecDevOps methodologies.
• Experience with Cloud Management and Monitoring, including health, performance, and financial monitoring of cloud infrastructure.
• Project and program management planning and organizational skills
  
  

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Minimum Education And Experience

Some state job postings say you can qualify by an “equivalent combination of education and experience.” If that language appears below, then you may qualify through EITHER years of education OR years of directly related experience, OR a combination of both. See the Education and Experience Equivalency Guide for details.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or closely related degree from an appropriately accredited institution and six years of progressive IT experience including four years of experience related to cloud architecture design and/or implementation;

or

Associate degree in computer science, information technology, or a closely related field from an appropriately accredited institution and seven years of progressive IT experience including five years of experience related to cloud architecture design and/or implementation; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

EEO Statement

The State of North Carolina is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and dedicated to providing employees with a work environment free from all forms of unlawful employment discrimination, harassment, or retaliation. The state provides reasonable accommodation to employees and applicants with disabilities; known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; and for religious beliefs, observances, and practices.

Recruiter

Tajia Brown

Recruiter Email

dit_hr_recruitment@nc.gov

Job Tags

Full time, Remote work, Local area,

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