Job ID: MNSITE-2414 (90090622)3P
Remote Azure Architect with CI/CD, Git, ADO, GitHub/GitLab, Toolchains, DevOps, DevSecOps, SCOM, SolarWinds, .Net, Kubernetes, AWS CloudFormation/Azure Resource Manager experience
Location: St Paul MN (MNIT)
Duration: 6+ months
Attachments: RTR/Skill Matrix
Work is expected to be remote
Minimum Qualifications
•Two years of Cloud Application Architecture experience
•One year experience setting up Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment for Development Teams
•Five years of Cloud Application Development experience modernizing applications for the cloud
Desired Skills
•Two years’ experience with a Git-based version control system
•Knowledge of ADO and GitHub and Toolchains for Dev Ops and Dev Sec Ops tool chains for Application Lifecycle Management
•Expert Knowledge of Agile project management tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub, or GitLab
•Two engagements with two different entities in a Cloud Applications Modernization Developer or Architect role
•Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical staff/end-users
•Effective customer service skills, including the ability to interact frequently with end-users and other staff
•Sophisticated troubleshooting skills, including the ability to create and test hypotheses based on relative likelihood, and a willingness and ability to creatively consider all possible causes for a problem and test appropriately
•Cloud Solution Design Skills:
oExcellent understanding of cloud shared responsibility and security models
oDemonstrated experience with Azure application monitoring and ability to architect complex solutions on public cloud infrastructure
oExperience with cloud application and infrastructure Monitoring and Alerting Solutions, such as Azure Monitor, SCOM, SolarWinds, or others
oExperience providing governance around cloud services
•Cloud Solution Implementation Skills:
o.Net development experience
oAzure Kubernetes development experience
oKnowledge and usage of AWS CloudFormation or Azure Resource Manager
oExperience leveraging development pipelines, DevOps philosophies and working with infrastructure-as-code
Sample Tasks
•Work with product managers, development teams, and other engineering teams to deliver cloud-based solutions in support of distributed development teams which meet the needs of the State
•Use project management principles and practices sufficient to determine program direction, plan work, set goals, and monitor and evaluate accomplishments and document work plans and tasks in Azure Boards
•Lead complex projects, write project plans, establish priorities, and allocate resources/workloads in a team environment. Sample project work may include:
oDesigning complex processes, custom dashboards and measurement metrics in Azure monitoring tools
oApplying research and analytical skills in evaluating new technologies
oProviding technical decision making with limited resources and precedence
oDeveloping specific solutions for unique and unprecedented problems
oAnalyzing technical problems and implementing solutions under tight time constraints
oUsing formal methods of systems analysis
•Develop policy and procedure for CI/CD and helping distributed development teams learn and deploy it
•Create documentation, design, and technical artifacts for the development of application modernization techniques (e.g, like working with development teams to select containerization strategies and help development teams learn/deploy them)
•Use verbal and written communications to interact technically with staff and vendor representatives and functionally with users (present technical concepts to both technical and non-technical staff)
•Present clear and concise reports to executive management/leadership
•Provide knowledge transfer
Description of Project
The Minnesota Department of Information Technology Services (MNIT) is the information technology agency for Minnesota’s executive branch, tasked with setting IT strategy, direction, policies, and standards. To strategically position Minnesota to meet future technology needs, MNIT is moving many infrastructure and platform services to the cloud.
Given this, MNIT is seeking a vendor to provide one Cloud Applications Operations Architect/Developer resource to lead MNIT project teams in delivering cloud-based solutions to best meet the needs of the State.