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Job Description
Cognosante is seeking an AWS Cloud Service Owner (SO) for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Cloud Operations and Migration Services (COMS) contract. The SO will manage a team of 3-7 personnel and work directly with a variety of VA stakeholders. The SO will also provide support for the refinement of the VA Enterprise Cloud (VAEC) AWS government and commercial environments. The SO will also assist VA application teams with migrating VA applications to the AWS VAEC. The candidate will support our VA clients with their cloud migrations to enhance, optimize, and maintain their computing capabilities across their technical landscape. This includes interviewing clients to understand application and infrastructure current state, leading client working sessions to identify, categorize, prioritize and analyze data and information to work into cloud migration action plans, working with the larger project teams to migrate legacy applications to their cloud platform.
The AWS Cloud Service Owner must have an expert level of expertise with Amazon Web Services. The Cloud Service Owner should have excellent communication skills, the ability to understand business needs, and the ability to provide sound technical guidance.The SO will work with the CSP (Amazon), the VA, and other technical contracting teams to implement best practices for all cloud hosted and cloud architect projects.
Key responsibilities:
Anticipate program challenges and risk scenarios and prepare, lead, and execute proactive response strategies to ensure optimal results
Assist in development and delivery of internal and client-facing program reviews, status reports, performance reports and other communications
Assist with reports on cloud infrastructure assets and costs
Closely monitor and manage team members across the program to align with the staffing plans, schedule, and cost constraints and goals
Confer with client executive management to define the client's strategic business information technology goals and advises in the reengineering of business processes to meet those goals
Direct efforts around business and technical requirements analysis, business process modeling/mapping, methodology development, and process integration with security, architecture, budget and acquisitions
Ensure compliance with the standards and organization requirements relative to specific assignments
Execute analysis and evaluation of existing or proposed processes, applications, systems, or software
Interact daily with the cloud architects and assist in all aspects of the design of the automation workflows and blueprints underlying the services migration of systems to the AWS government and commercial clouds
Manage a team of individuals with a variety of AWS skillsets
Perform tasks requiring in-depth knowledge of business domain targeting process efficiency and improvement
Provide operations and migration services that enable VA to tailor the availability and delivery of cloud computing services based on business and technical requirements into the AWS government and commercial clouds
Provide strategic business consulting to the program
Provide support for operations and migration services that enable VA to tailor the availability and delivery of cloud computing services based on business and technical requirements
Responsible for working with users and customers to document and strategize for process improvements for current business processes
Support the development of program and project requirements and review requirements documents to ensure business, functional and technical requirements are complete and consistent with the contract
Work with VA personnel, third party providers (Amazon, for example) as well as other outside contractors and vendors
Working daily with VA stakeholders to understand and document their needs and requirements when it comes to migrating or utilizing the AWS cloud
Must Have Qualifications:
A minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science, electronics engineering or other engineering or technical discipline is required (10 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education).
A Senior Cloud Analyst has experience implementing, migrating, managing, and operating systems/applications in an enterprise cloud computing environment
Subject matter expertise with ALL VAEC Cloud Service Providers which currently includes Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Able to pass a background check to obtain a Public Trust (High-Risk) Position
Must be a U.S. citizen
Candidates that do not meet the minimum qualifications will not be considered.
Preferred Qualifications
A minimum of 4 years of extensive hands-on cloud experience with AWS
A solid understanding of cloud concepts, either using Azure or AWS semantics
Ability to communicate clearly with all levels in an organization
Ability to pass a background check to obtain a Public Trust (High-Risk) Position
Background that includes at least one core technology; Linux/Windows or database admin (for example), with exp. working application migrations
Creative, analytical, problem-solving, and trouble-shooting skills
Excellent written and verbal skills
Experience in acting as the liaison between clients and contractor technical teams, and in aligning the technical teams' priorities with the clients' needs and priorities
Experience writing technical documentation, especially in relation to cloud architecture
Extensive experience implementing, migrating, managing, and operating systems/applications in an enterprise cloud computing environment
Management experience with team of engineers
Must be capable of working closely with the project leadership and technical resources to understand issues and work toward resolution
One or more Amazon cloud certifications
Previous Federal Government experience
Strong ability to foster collaborative work in dynamic team environment
Strong management skills to select, develop, mentor, and motivate team members
Strong technical experiences working migrations or systems development as well as coordinating from a business perspective
Strong understanding of SDLC concepts, full lifecycle development for systems/applications
