O365 Integration Architect

Role: RQTBD Lead Azure / 0365 Integration Architect

Hybrid: Fort Meade, MD

Salary: $160,000 - $172,000

Secret Clearance is Required!

Recruiting Heroes is seeking a O365 Integration Architect to provide support on our Defense Enterprise Office Solution (DEOS) Cloud Service Offering contract. This position is a combination of remote (20%) and onsite (80%) support at either Ft Meade, MD or our GDIT secure facility in Chantilly, VA. Please be advised that no travel costs will be provided.

How An Azure / 0365 Integration Architect Will Make An Impact:

• By leading Azure software development best practices to facilitate collaboration, feature enhancement, issue tracking, testing, development, and production deployment.
• Implement automation and other tasks using Power Platform, Azure App Services, PowerShell, APIs, etc.
• Utilize parameter driven, declarative syntax models, when possible, to afford flexibility and simplicity to subscribing organizations.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, supporting release validation efforts.
• Coding experience using .NET (Core)
• Knowledge and practical experience of/with Azure Integration Services, API Design & Azure API Management
• You will assist our customers with architecture and design of high available, secure and scalable Integration solutions using Azure Integration Services such as Logic Apps & Azure Functions
• Provides top-level technical expertise, including performing in-depth and complex software systems programming and analysis.
• Designs architectures to include the software, hardware, and communications to support present technical specifications, while ensuring relevance, functionality, and adaptability for present and future cross-functional requirements and interfaces.
• Ensures these systems are compatible and in compliance with the standards for DoD architectures.
• Participate in strategic planning sessions led by Enterprise Architecture team for development of the application architecture and roadmap.
• Present solution designs to various stakeholders for input, buy-in and sign-off. Leads the development and implementation of large and complex IT solutions. This includes architecting the solution, piloting, first time implementation, documentation and standardization for repeatable deployment.
• Determines and identifies high level functional and technical requirements based on interactions with the user community and knowledge of the enterprise architectures.
• Interacts with project management to plan project schedules and technical direction.
• Develops software design documents and technology white papers. Instrumental in selection of development tools.
• Develops high-level system design diagrams, testing, and documentation.
• Responsible for quality assurance reviews and evaluation of existing and new software products.

What Youll Need To Succeed (Required):

• Active Secret security clearance is required.
• Current DoD 8570 IAT Level II (Security+ CE, CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, or SSCP) required.
• Bachelors Degree and a minimum of 10 years experience required. An additional 3 years of related technical experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
• Minimum of 2 years experience with automation platforms and designing solutions to run at scale.
• Experience designing, documenting, implementing, and maintaining custom applications for a Government customer
• Expertise in one or more of the following programming languages: C#, Java, JavaScript, Python
• Expertise in cloud native application development including front and back end services
• Experience in Cloud, Azure, MS Office 365 support environments.
• Experience implementing enterprise policies for internal and external content sharing and collaboration across all O365 core services (Teams, Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint).
• Collaboration on configuration changes using a distributed revision control system (i.e., Git).
• Automation with PowerShell Modules and Power Platform.
• Experience with Agile/SCRUM software development management methods.

What Youll Need To Succeed (Desired):

• Implement Policy as Code (PaC) using platforms like Ansible, Terraform, M365DSC, etc.
• Automation of tenant configurations using Microsoft 365 related API endpoints
• Experience with the Microsoft 365 Management Interfaces.

Technologies

To support our continued growth, we are looking to add an accomplished Lead Azure Integration Architect with experience in infrastructure, security and automation services. As an architect you must have designed and implemented solutions with Azure Landing Zones, Networking, Identity & Access Management, setting up AKS clusters and implementing strong security and compliance controls such as FIPS compliant encryption.

The ideal candidate would have experience with automation using Terraform, Azure Security Services, Azure Networking, and data encryption technologies on Azure as well as third-party products and relevant technologies for enterprise grade deployments of container-based solutions. This is a hands-on engineering, implementation and consulting role with a focus on infrastructure deployment, security architecture and compliance.

• KUBERNETES
  Developed and implemented Kubernetes/AKS, ECS, Docker and containerized solution architectures with advanced engineering concepts around security, segmentation, vulnerability and image scanning, and integration with third-party tools.
• AZURE Cloud Infrastructure and Security
• Experience managing full application stacks from the OS up through custom applications
• Knowledge of Azure and Cloud Computing concepts (preferred experience with Azure Landing Zones, Terraform and Azure DevOps.
• Understand how to manage and troubleshoot on Kubernetes.
  · Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat) and/or Microsoft Windows Server and associated technologies (Active Directory, Exchange etc.)
  · Understanding of IP Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, SSL/TLS, etc.)
  · One or more container orchestration management experience (e.g. Docker, OpenShift Kubernetes)
  · Troubleshooting skills at multiple levels of complexity.
• Terraform/ Cloud Formation
• Expertise using Terraform and Cloud Formation
• CI/CD ENABLEMENT
• Experience with one or more DevOps, Orchestration/Configuration Management and Continuous Integration technology (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, Ansible)
  · Programming experience with one or more scripting language (e.g. Bash, PowerShell, Ruby, Python, Node.JS)
  · One or more version control platform (e.g. Git, Perforce, SVN, TFVC

Who We Are:

Recruiting Heroes (RecruitingHeroesLLC.com) is an employment agency founded by a former First Responder. We are dedicated to finding amazing careers for America's Veterans and First Responders.

Recruiting Heroes LLC is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected Veteran status.