ITPRO-USA-RV-MNIT-3292- CloudRAMP

This is a remote position.

Description of Project

The Minnesota Department of Information Technology Services (MNIT) is seeking one full-time resource to work on CloudRAMP, the State of Minnesota project to transition to Microsoft Azure cloud computing services. 

At a high level, the resource will work directly with the CloudRAMP project team and agencies to plan, design and migrate 70% of on-premise workloads and applications to the Cloud. 

Sample Tasks

• Work with product managers, development teams, and other engineering teams to deliver cloud-based solutions 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.
  

• Lead complex projects, write project plans, establish priorities, allocate resources/workloads in a team environment. Sample project work may include:
  

• Designing complex processes and measurement metrics
  

• Applying research and analytical skills in evaluating new technologies
  

• Providing technical decision making with limited resources and precedence
  

• Developing specific solutions for unique and unprecedented problems
  

• Analyzing technical problems and implementing solutions under tight time constraints
  

• Using formal methods of systems analysis
  

• Develop policy and procedure.
  

• Create documentation, design, and technical artifacts in Microsoft Visio, Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
  

• 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
  

Desired Skills 

• Five years of Cloud Architect experience
  

• At least two engagements with two different entities in a Cloud Architect role
  

• Knowledge of Agile project management tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira
  

• 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 Design Desired Skills 

• Experience designing enterprise cloud solutions leveraging, Microsoft Azure, Amazon 
  

• Web Services, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
  

• Excellent understanding of cloud shared responsibility and security models 
  

• Secure system design and development principles to conform to state and federal
  

• guidelines.
  

• Demonstrated ability to architect complex solutions on public cloud infrastructure.
  

• Experience with cloud Monitoring and Alerting Solutions, such as Azure Monitor, SCOM, 
  

• SolarWinds, or others.
  

• Experience providing governance around cloud services.
  

• Experience in cloud migration planning, design, and process for large enterprise
  

• organizations, applications, and database services.
  

Cloud Solution Implementation Skills 

• Scripting with Python and/or PowerShell.
  

• Experience with Infrastructure Configuration Solutions, such as Azure Automation, Azure Orchestrator, SCCM Desired State Configuration, Azure Desired State Configuration, Puppet, Chef, or others.
  

• Designing and implementing with cloud IaaS and PaaS Services.
  

• Knowledge and usage of AWS CloudFormation or Azure Resource Manager, Terraform
  

• and/or Azure Bicep.
  

• Experience leveraging development pipelines, DevOps philosophies and working with infrastructure-as-code (IaC).