The United States Postal Service has the following challenging employment opportunity for a highly motivated and innovative individual. The Cloud Architect position is available in Washington, DC, however, domicile may be considered. The successful candidate must demonstrate through a combination of education, training, and experience the following requirements.
Location
US POSTAL SERVICE
Information Technology
Washington, DC 20260
Position Information
TITLE: Cloud Architect
GRADE: V-01
FLSA DESIGNATION: Exempt
OCCUPATION CODE:
NON-SCHEDULED DAYS: Saturday/Sunday
HOURS: 08:30 A.M. to 05:00 P.M.
PL: N/A
SALARY RANGE: 123 265.00 USD Annually
FINANCE NUMBER:
BENEFIT INFORMATION: The salary will be based on previous experience, salary history, and current postal pay policies. We offer excellent benefits including health and life insurance, retirement plan, savings/investment plan with employer contribution, flexible spending, flextime scheduling of core work hours, annual and sick leave.
Background Check
The Inspection Service criminal background check is conducted using United States information resources only (e.g., FBI fingerprint check, state and county checks). A criminal background check involves a 5-year inquiry for any location where the individual has resided, worked or gone to school within the United States or its territories. As a result of this limitation, the criminal background checks of individuals who have not resided in the United States or its territories for the preceding 5-years may not be considered complete. The Inspection Service may be able to process inquiries for U.S. Citizens only, but only if their time spent out of the country was spent as: a trailing spouse or dependent of someone working for the U.S. government (military or civilian), a missionary, a student attending school in a foreign country, a Peace Corps participant, or as an employee of a U.S.-based employer/company. If the Inspection Service is unable to perform a complete background check because of residency outside the United States, such individuals will be ineligible for Postal employment.
Functional Purpose
Manages component work for specific Information Technology (IT) that forms the foundation of the enterprise wide Cloud Architecture. Develops cloud native design patterns that provide scalable, performant, highly resilient yet cost-effective technology solutions. Develops cloud-based architectures to meet the requirements of new and existing applications and services.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Advises and assists USPS IT functional groups to define and implement solutions aligned with a Cloud based Microservices / Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for infrastructure or business applications.
2. Creates architecture deliverables describing cloud solutions in sufficient detail to develop bill of materials, technology components, vendor components, cost estimations, and design parameters suitable for handoff to implementation teams.
3. Prepares solution descriptions, assumptions, technical approach, and content that explains why solution is recommended, risks and mitigation plans.
4. Leads cultural change for cloud adoption. Actively participates in the development and socialization of Infrastructure Solution roadmaps related to public cloud offerings.
5. Creates and communicates cloud policies, procedures, standards, design patterns, and reference architectures that define repeatable solutions.
6. Identifies training and development needs required to support cloud based solutions standards; develops materials for training and awareness, and delivers messages to intended audience.
7. Interfaces with vendors to ensure standard architectures are adhere to and implemented for projects within a specific technology area.
8. Provides technical direction to management and systems professionals engaged in the analysis, design, development, implementation and maintenance of business information systems.
9. Ensures alignment of infrastructure and application solution design to the overall architecture for Enterprise applications and compliance with defined technology standards, policies, processes and best industry practices.
10. Researches and analyzes the technology industry and market trends relating to cloud technologies to determine potential impact upon the IT enterprise; makes recommendations to capitalize on trends and industry best practice.
11. Ensures the architecture governance structure is applied in a defined solutions area based on business and IT organization strategies.
12. Ensures publication and update of solution standards pertaining to cloud hosted solutions and manages individual projects related to the release and propagation of standards across IT.
13. Provides leadership and technical assistance as an IT SWAT team member to management and systems professionals engaged in problem solving regarding the analysis, design, development, implementation and maintenance of business information systems.
SUPERVISION
Manager unit to which assigned.
The United States Postal Service has the following excellent and challenging employment opportunity for highly motivated and innovative individuals. Successful candidates must demonstrate through a combination of education, training, and experience the following requirements:
Requirements
1. Ability to communicate, orally and in writing, sufficient to develop and present management briefings; provide written
and/or verbal guidance on technical issues; and prepare/present recommendations and reports.
2. Demonstrated ability to research, analyze, and evaluate existing and proposed business systems and procedures, develop requirements and identify system solutions in detailed measurable terms that achieve optimum performance and cost effectiveness.
3. Knowledge of industry developments, business information systems and practices, development methods, procedures, standards, techniques, Agile application life cycle, test driven development, continuous integration of code development, and current cloud technologies.
4. Experience leading the design, development and deployment of performant cloud business software at scale or current hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience.
5. Expert knowledge of cloud services from one or more of the primary Cloud Service Providers (CSPs)(i.e., Amazon, Microsoft or Google).
6. Ability to integrate cloud services with on premise technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, Linux, SAP, etc.
7. Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements in a regulated environment such as SOX and PCI.
8. Ability to automate complex tasks using scripting or coding skills, or similar current automation tools (e.g., shell, Python, Ruby, PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, Chef, or Puppet).
9. Knowledge of information systems enterprise-wide architecture including knowledge of a wide range of foundational technology such as cloud services, servers and storage, virtualization, high availability, performance analysis and
management, and enterprise infrastructure monitoring for highly available web-scale systems.
SPECIAL CONDITIONS: Applicant must submit to and be awarded a security clearance.
This position requires NACI clearance. This process can take up to 6 weeks from the date the offer letter is returned
Reimbursement of relocation expenses will not be authorized.
Qualified applicants must successfully pass a pre-employment drug screening to meet the U.S. Postal Service's requirement to be drug free. Applicants must also be a U.S. citizen or have permanent resident alien status.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
Applications must be submitted by 11:59 p.m., Central Time, of the posting's closing date. Applicants claiming veterans' preference must attach a copy of member copy 4 (only) of Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty (DD Form 214) or other proof of eligibility if claiming 10-point veterans' preference. The United States Postal Service (USPS) is an equal opportunity employer. The USPS provides reasonable accommodation for any part of the application, interview, and/or selection process, please make your request to the examiner, selecting official or local manager of Human Resources. This request can also be made by someone on your behalf. Explain the nature of your limitations and the accommodation needed. The decision on granting reasonable accommodation will be on a case-by-case basis.
SPECIAL NOTE: Current career Postal Service employees are ineligible to apply to this posting.