Title: Cloud Solution Architect

State Role Title: Info Technology Specialist III

Hiring Range: Up to $165,000

Pay Band: 6

Agency: Dept Behavioral Health/Develop

Location: Central Office

Agency Website: www.dbhds.virginia.gov

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

The Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) is seeking an experienced IT professional to fill the Cloud Solution Architect position. As part of the Enterprise Architecture team, this position is responsible for designing scalable, reusable, and secure application architectures across the organization, with a strong focus on AWS solution architecture, while supporting workloads on Azure and OCI as well.

Key Responsibilities include:
• Designing and implementing scalable, resilient, secure cloud-native applications on AWS aligned with Well-Architected Framework principles.
• Leading application modernization and cloud migration initiatives, embedding performance, reliability, scalability, and cost optimization into all designs.
• Producing detailed architecture documents, diagrams, and technical specifications to support solution delivery and governance.
• Providing architectural guidance for Azure deployments and validating/supporting workloads running on OCI.
• Promoting consistent cross-cloud architecture patterns across networking, identity, DevSecOps, security, observability, workload portability, and multi-cloud resilience strategies.
• Contributing reusable reference architectures, blueprints, accelerators, and standardized design patterns to reduce duplication across teams.
• Developing and maintaining shared frameworks for logging, monitoring, security, CI/CD, API governance, and system integration.
• Building and standardizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules and automation templates.
• Actively participating in solution design workshops, proof-of-concepts, and providing hands-on guidance during development and deployment.
• Conducting architecture reviews, code and design validations, and troubleshooting complex application and integration issues.
• Ensuring solution alignment with enterprise architecture principles, target-state roadmaps, compliance standards, and security, regulatory, and risk management policies.
• Participating in Architecture Review Boards and governance processes while maintaining complete and accurate architecture documentation.
• Collaborating with product, engineering, DevOps, security, and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable, sustainable technical solutions and providing consultative support across business units.
• Demonstrating strong analytical and systems thinking, deep technical credibility, a reusability-first platform mindset, effective collaboration and influencing skills, and the ability to balance governance with delivery agility—driving outcomes such as scalable secure solutions, reusable pattern adoption, reduced time-to-market, improved reliability/performance/cost efficiency, and reduced technical debt.

Minimum Qualifications

• IT experience, with experience delivering solution and application architectures.
• Experience designing and implementing AWS-based solutions, with experience in Azure and exposure to OCI.
• Demonstrated experience in cloud-native application design, modernization, and leveraging native cloud services for solution engineering across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Ability to translate business requirements into fully tested, scalable workflows by designing, implementing, and maintaining technology assets using approved tools.
• Knowledge of AWS services including compute, storage, networking, serverless, containers, and IAM, along with cloud networking concepts (VPCs, subnets, security groups).
• Experience in microservices, event-driven architecture, API-first design, integration patterns, and API development (e.g., AWS API Gateway).
• Experience with serverless platforms (e.g., AWS Lambda), containerization (Docker), and orchestration (EKS, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep) to automate provisioning and infrastructure management.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps practices, version control, and collaboration tools (e.g., Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline).
• Experience implementing observability frameworks including logging, monitoring, tracing, alerts, dashboards, performance tuning, and cloud cost optimization.
• Scripting and automation skills (e.g., Python, Node.js), business process automation capabilities, and commitment to security-by-design and zero-trust principles.
• Excellent stakeholder communication, collaboration, end-user training and support, continuous learning and mentoring mindset, and adherence to organizational policies and procedures.

Additional Considerations

• Experience showcased in cloud architecture and software engineering skills (ex: API Development, Algorithm design), Scripting (preferably python/NodeJS), Serverless computing, Containerization and Orchestration, DevOps for pipelines.
• Experience building products in a modern cloud ecosystem is crucial.
• Associate/Professional AWS Certified Solutions Architect
• Professional AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
• Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect
• TOGAF or equivalent Enterprise Architecture certification

Special Instructions

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

This position is eligible, however not guaranteed, for telework opportunities; availability, hours, and duration of telework shall be approved as outlined in the Commonwealth telework policy.

For consideration, interested applicants must apply by completing the online application and/or submit a resume. However, emailed, faxed, and hand-delivered applications and/or resumes will not be accepted. Applications must be submitted by 11:55 p.m., on the listed closing date. Reasonable accommodations are available to persons with disabilities during application and/or interview processes per the Americans with Disabilities Act.

DBHDS welcomes all applicants authorized to work in the U.S. For more information on how to seek this authorization, please refer to Working in the United States or contact the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office directly.

Contact Information

Name: ShaKiera Miles

Phone: N/A

Email: shakiera.miles@dbhds.virginia.gov - Inquiries Only/No Submissions, to include resumes.

In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at 800-552-5019.

Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.