Cloud Solution Architect

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Job Description:

Bank of America offers Private and Public Cloud platforms for our developers to drive faster time-to-market, innovation with private and public cloud capabilities, and reduce complexity with bult-in integrations. We believe in high quality engineering and architecture culture to solution our platforms with customer and platform mindset, design for large enterprise scale and resilience, and accelerate market innovation into the technical platforms we deliver.

We are seeking an experienced Cloud Solution Architect to join an exciting team within Global Information Security (GIS). Cyber Security Technology (CST) is a globally distributed team responsible for cyber security innovation and architecture, engineering, solutions and capabilities development, cyber resiliency, access management engineering, data strategy, deployment maintenance, technical project management and information technology security control support.

This individual will play a pivotal role in solutioning and realizing the hybrid and multi-cloud strategy of the bank. We are looking for people who are passionate about cloud technologies, and about using them to solve interesting business problems for our customers.  If you’re collaborative, technical, and enjoy working on big challenges, we think you’ll enjoy working with us.

As part of this team, you will have a large impact in designing a secure next generation of Cloud services for Bank of America and explore an extensive list of new technologies that will drive innovation across our company.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze, design, develop, and deliver secure cloud solutions.
• Support with creating new and leveraging existing secure cloud architectural patterns to optimize a cloud design that aligns to business requirements.
• Manage all aspects of delivery of solution design, including capturing of security requirements, identifying risks & opportunities, and alignment to information security policy.
• Cross collaborates and work with line(s) of business teams and other security and IT support functions.
• Serve as a technical security design resource through the Systems Development Lifecyle.
• Maintain thought leadership role in cloud technology, remaining up to date on offerings of various cloud service providers.
• Maintain overall product design documentation and oversight. Responsible for the solution architecture of Hybrid cloud platforms and components that comprise it.
• Provide expert level guidance on Cloud design decisions, standards, and operational practices.
• Be an active member of Cloud center of excellence to define and govern best practices in Cloud platforms engineering, cloud operations, cloud-native application development, and cloud platform governance.
• Support with plan and implementation of the selection of new cloud services and tools to enable cloud roadmap.
• Drive discussions in architecture review board; develop platform architecture artifacts and influence on architectural decisions.
• Maintain blueprints, portfolio level designs, and reference architecture of cloud products.
• Partner with Information Security teams to engineer secure app patterns and have “security from the get-go” model into Cloud platforms.
• Work with teams that have high application complexity to provide guidance on cloud platforms and escalate risks and issues as appropriate.
• Communicate problems, risks, and challenges to drive discussions across key stakeholders –engineering, operations, developers, and senior leadership.

Required Skills:

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience required Experience in DevOps and GitOps models with infra-as-code, config-as-code, policy-as-code, etc. with technologies such as Terraform.
• Experience with on-premises based Private Cloud and Public Cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.
• Have deep knowledge of web protocols, Linux and/or Windows operating systems, and AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud and/or Google APIs and environments.
• Experience in native CSP orchestration stacks (e.g., Azure ARM templates, AWS CloudFormation, Google Cloud Deployment Manager)
• Experience in container-native technologies such as Kubernetes, container native virtualization, network, etc.
• Experience in cloud-native logging, monitoring and operations tools – Splunk, Prometheus, etc.
• Experience with containers related technologies and CICD tools – Jenkins, pipelines, container repos, etc.
• Experience in infra-automation tools and general programming languages – Ansible, Java, python, etc.
• Must have solid understanding and work experience in one or more of the following:
  • Cloud IAM/authentication service
  • Cloud threat & vulnerability, and SOC integrations
  • Cloud network and security design
  • Cloud IaaS design

• Native cloud services (i.e., CosmosDB, BigTable, etc.)
• Cloud-native Kubernetes services (AKS, GKE, EKS) design and implementation
• Red Hat Openshift public cloud design and implementation
• Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, CloudFormation, Salt
• Experience in Agile and Waterfall development practices and test-driven development

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Architecture
• Result Orientation
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Application Development
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• DevOps Practices
• Risk Management
• Agile Practices
• Automation
• Influence
• Solution Delivery Process
• Test Engineering

Enterprise Role Overview:

This job is responsible for defining an architectural vision and solution aligned to the enterprise architecture strategy, technology, and platform choices. Key responsibilities include describing the solution intent/associated operating environment, evaluating system impacts, determining the primary systems/sub-systems and their interfaces, and assisting with end-to-end solution design. Job expectations include defining non-functional requirements/architectural runway to support new epics/features and ensuring solutions are fit for purpose by working with stakeholders and service providers.

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