The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is seeking an Advanced Cloud & Infrastructure Architect to lead, plan, design, and build cloud-based systems and applications, providing technical guidance to teams and cloud users. This role is crucial for ensuring the cloud architecture provides a scalable and reliable IT infrastructure for the business operations, optimizing cloud performance, and ensuring security and compliance.
Requirements
- Advanced in cloud administration, cloud architecture and development, cloud operation & management, cloud security, cloud services (e.g., analytics).
- Advanced in deploying, managing, and securing multiple Hybrid Multi Cloud, on-prem, Server OS, and Directory Service environments, including AWS and Google
- Advanced in Large scale migration experience, Data Center to Data Center and/or Data Center to Cloud.
- Advanced in Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g., shell, Python, Ruby, PowerShell, Terraform)
- Advanced in cloud computing, cloud solutions, and cloud automation.
- Advanced knowledge of network security (e.g., firewalls, network ports, etc.) and connecting enterprise networks to the cloud.
- Advanced in analyzing storage needs, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for Cloud Engineering for AWS and Google across the organization
- Reviews cloud-based solutions produced by lower-level Cloud &I infrastructure Architects and drives transformative change in cloud-based applications and solutions for the organization.
- Designs and leads cloud adoption plans.
- Designs cloud-based architectures, ensuring security and compliance, and optimizing cloud performance.
- Coordinates cloud-based systems and applications within the organization's network.
- Creates a project plan to guide the software development process.
- Develops new cloud strategies/roadmaps and presents them to management.
Other
- Position at MTA Headquarters
- This position is eligible for telework, which is currently two days per week.
- Travel may be required to other MTA locations or other external sites.
- May need to work outside of normal work hours supporting 24/7 operations (i.e., evenings and weekends).
- Abides by MTA attendance expectations and requirements by attending regularly and reliably.
