Cloud Architect III

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Job Title: Cloud Architect III

Reports to: Engineering Manager IV  

Employment/FLSA Status: Full-Time/Exempt 

Remote Eligible: Yes, National, United States 

Travel Requirements: Up to 10% 

Salary Range: $90,288 - $135,432 (depending on experience, skills, and qualifications relative to the job requirements) 

Position Summary 

The Cloud Architecture III is responsible for developing computing strategies within the cloud. They evaluate, compare, and select from competing software solutions; oversee application design, and effective infrastructure management and monitoring. They ensure technical solutions comply with best practices for scalability, reliability, usability, and security. They must be both risk and cost aware, making efforts to balance both. The cloud architect must have a strong background in cloud computing, infrastructure as code, and continuous integration/continuous delivery. They need to stay current on industry best practices and emerging computer products and use that knowledge to design improvements to cloud infrastructure and software. The need to effectively communicate solutions to developers and managers leading them to production implementation. 

Details of Responsibilities 

General Essential Job Duties: 

Substantially contribute to:

• Assisting teams defining strategic directions, standards for functional and project groups. 
• Mentoring other architects, engineers, data scientists, and other technical staff members on best practices and strategies for the organization. 
• Creating complete plans for software development projects to meet requirements. 
• Communicating with internal stakeholders to establish requirements and implement feedback for project groups. 
• Coordinating with other team members to ensure tasks are completed on time with best practices applied. 

 Take lead or major role in: 

• Designing, developing, implementing, and supporting cloud-based software systems. 
• Contributing to the development of software system requirements and then analyzing and creating formal design specifications to meet them. 
• Writing organized and comprehensive documentation on projects. 
• Applying the Software Development Life Cycle to projects. 
• Working directly with others in functional or project groups to diagnose and resolve issues with software systems. 
• Other duties may be assigned as necessary for the successful operation of the business. 

Specialized Essential Job Duties: 

• Assists with joint analysis and design activities with other staff to define directions, standards, and key technologies for evolving complex software systems. 
• Promotes cloud-native design principles and vendor-specific managed services in their software solutions. 
• Author technical reports and publications, in addition to presenting relevant work at conferences. 

Leadership and Supervisory Responsibilities: 

• This position does not have supervisory responsibility. 
• Has frequent communication with project leads for instruction and guidance, and direct supervision by a functional manager. 
• Leads short-term project teams, including coordination with stakeholders and assignment of tasks to team members. 
• Foster a professional culture through the use of strong interpersonal skills, verbal and written communications. 
• Communicate clearly and effectively with other team members to ensure tasks are completed on time and with best practices. 

Qualifications – Tier 1

Salary Range - $90,288 - $112,755.50

 Minimum Education & Experience Requirements: 

• PhD degree in computer science, information systems, or related STEM field AND four (4) years of relevant experience of which two (2) years include work with a lead or major role 

OR 

• Master’s degree in computer science, information systems, or related STEM field AND five (5) years of relevant experience of which three (3) years include work with a lead or major role 

OR 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or related STEM field AND six (6) years of relevant experience of which four (4) years include work with a lead or major role 

OR 

• Eight (8) years of relevant experience of which four (4) years include work with a lead or major role 

Preferred Skills and Knowledge: 

• An understanding of earth sciences, earth science data, and the earth science community. 

Qualifications – Tier 2

Salary Range - $112,755.50 - $135,432

Minimum Education & Experience Requirements: 

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related STEM field at time of hire  
• Three (3) years of experience in software development. 

OR 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related STEM field at time of hire. 
• Five (5) years of experience in software development. 

OR 

• At least nine (9) years of practical software development experience. 
• Including Three (3) years of experience equivalent to a Senior Cloud Software Developer II. 

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:  

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability for the position: 

• Ability to take initiative to learn new skills, current best practices and technologies and then apply these to projects while encouraging them throughout the organization. 
• Ability to work both independently and on a team supporting multiple projects and deployments to cloud environments. 

Knowledge of: 

• Computer networking; building secure networks, and concepts such as Zero Trust and Identity Management. 
• Systems, data structures, modern scripting and enterprise level languages, and open- source tools that can and should be leveraged to solve problems. 

Experience with: 

• Building and deploying cloud-like operational environments and networks. 
• Software containerization (e.g. Docker). 
• Agile practices (continuous integration, test driven development, pair programming, etc.). 
• Implementing projects with design patterns, service-oriented architecture, and RESTful web services development. 
• Quality engineering via automated testing (e.g. Pytest, JUnit, etc.). 
• Using modern languages like Python, Java, Go, Rust, and other enterprise languages along with the common frameworks used with them. 

Expertise in: 

• Web technologies (HTTP), cloud databases (MongoDB/DocumentDB, PostgreSQL/AWS Aurora, DynamoDB, BigQuery) and Linux. 

Other Requirements:  

• Appropriate availability consistent with established company practices and norms; hours may exceed 40 hours per week, particularly when traveling. 

Environment 

Physical Setting and Requirements:  

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Frequently required to sit. 
• Frequently required to utilize hand and finger dexterity. 
• Frequently required to talk or hear. 
• While performing the duties of this job, the noise level in the work environment is usually quiet. 
• The employee must occasionally lift and /or move up to 10 pounds. 
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include Close vision. 
• Specialized equipment, machines, or vehicles used: 
• Ability to see computer screen with detailed screen menu in low lighting conditions. 

EarthScope’s Mission: EarthScope Consortium is a consortium dedicated to supporting transformative global geophysical research and education. 

To Apply: Applicants may apply by going to the EarthScope Consortium Career Center: https://www.earthscope.org/careers/

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EarthScope Consortium participates in E-Verify. 

EarthScope Consortium is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.