Digital Technology Architect – Innovation, Digital Enablement Platform
FirstEnergy
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Maryland • New Jersey • United States
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About the role
- Develop, optimize, and maintain cloud architecture and pipelines that adhere to cloud engineering best practices and FirstEnergy’s business goals.
- Help to implement a strategy for establishing a secure and well-managed enterprise environment in Azure.
- Support cloud developers in optimizing and automating cloud deployment activities – e.g. CI/CD, provisioning, and deployment.
- Develop Terraform modules & pipelines to automate the deployment of resources and associated configurations.
- Utilize native Azure services to meet the firm’s technology and resiliency requirements.
- Work as part of a highly collaborative agile team.
- Design, develop, optimize, and maintain cloud architecture and pipelines that adhere to cloud engineering best practices and FirstEnergy’s business goals.
- Create/support strategy for establishing a secure and well-managed enterprise environment in Azure.
- Lead design process for network connectivity to Azure.
- Design and implement data protection options, including HA and BCP protection in Azure.
- You will experiment with and learn new technologies, staying ahead of tech trends.
- Engage in close collaboration with leadership, product, and design to ensure a cohesive end-to-end architecture and seamless delivery of functionalities.
- You will handle large volume of complex technical details, workstreams, and interdependencies.
- Participate in requirements reviews, and other technical discussions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline such as Computer Science, MIS or another related field.
- 1 year with degree, 2 years without in supporting the strategy, architecture, design, and implementation of cloud initiatives.
- 2 years with degree, 4 years without in supporting the strategy, architecture, design, and implementation of cloud initiatives.
- Experience with configuring, deploying, and automating Azure cloud environments (AWS and GCP experience are a nice to have)
- Experience with Terraform, YAML, & Azure DevOps pipelines.
- Experience in the Agile/Scrum methodology
- Experience working in an environment with rapid prototyping and piloting of cloud solutions.
- DevOps automation experience including setup and configuration of CI/CD processes
- Expertise in infrastructure as code (e.g., ARM, Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Chocolatey)
- Understanding of standard networking protocols and components such as HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, ICMP, and load balancing
- Willingness to travel throughout organization and service territory and work extended hours, as required
Benefits
- competitive pay plus incentive compensation
- company-sponsored pension plan
- 401(k) savings plan with matching employer contribution
- choice of medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, and life insurance programs
- skills development training with tuition reimbursement
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud architecturecloud engineeringTerraformAzureCI/CDinfrastructure as codeYAMLAzure DevOpsDevOps automationnetworking protocols
Soft Skills
collaborationleadershipcommunicationproblem-solvingagile methodologytechnical discussionsorganizational skillsadaptabilityattention to detailstrategic thinking