REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training.
• 10+ years of in-depth experience in multiple IT disciplines within a higher education environment including technical architecture, network design, application development, middleware, servers & storage, database management, and operations.
• 4-6 years of expert-level experience with the integration of highly-complex, diverse, enterprise-class systems.
• 4-6 years of demonstrated experience working with “infrastructure as code” DevOps techniques including templating, configuration management, and automated build pipelines.
• 4-6 years of experience with continuous improvement theory and strategy, encouraging prudent risk-taking, exploration of alternative approaches, and organizational learning.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Expert knowledge of data storage, processing, and analysis and how they are used in administrative, research and/or academic endeavors.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into long-term architecture solutions.
• Expert understanding of cloud services and the ability to address the unique security considerations of secure Cloud Computing.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements driving the design of such systems.
• Demonstrated ability to define performance and reliability metrics and implement monitoring solutions to collect these data.
• Exceptional analytical skills including the ability to analyze project, program and portfolio needs, as well as determine resources to meet objectives and solve problems for a variety of stakeholders.
• Demonstrated effective communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate technical information to technical and non-technical personnel at various levels in the organization.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills in teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to understand business needs and how business systems can support those needs.
• Self-motivated and works independently and as part of a team.
• Demonstrates problem-solving skills. Able to learn effectively and meet deadlines.
• Demonstrated personal commitment to change through actions and words and to mobilize others to support change through times of stress and uncertainty.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF JOB DUTIES:

The Campus Core Cloud Team is a small, highly-technical group tasked with designing and building UCSB’s managed cloud environments (including, but not limited to, components such account provisioning, networking, security guidelines, identity systems, monitoring, logging, and dev/ops pipelines) from service offerings such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, G Suite, and Google Cloud Platform. These environments provide secure, reliable, managed accounts for the development, deployment, and operation of UCSB’s enterprise applications as deployed by all of UCSB’s IT units. The Campus Core Cloud Team is responsible for the architecture and operation of the UCSB’s central identity systems which are foundational technologies for UCSB’s enterprise application offerings. These services are enterprise in scope providing services to over 30,000 individuals and are critical requirements of the campus’s IT transformation goals. The Cloud Solutions Architect is a member of the Campus Cloud Core team and is responsible for designing and implementing well-architected applications and services in support of the campus AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform environments. These complex services are assembled from the thousands of possible components available on the cloud platforms in order to solve problems unique to UCSB’s use of these cloud platforms. He or she is responsible for developing performance, usage, and cost metrics for these services in order to rapidly construct newer, more efficient iterations based on these data. The Cloud Solutions Architect also acts as a senior consultant for other campus units as they plan to migrate services to the cloud or to develop new, cloud-native applications. In this role, the incumbent will lead their process from business analysis through application design and implementation with the goal of creating well-architected applications complying with industry and UCSB best practices. Demonstrates a keen understanding of institution‐wide needs and long‐term goals for use of Cloud technologies. Designs and builds solutions to highly-complex problems based on an analysis of the business requirements and processes then selecting tools, technologies, and methods to ensure a well-architected result. Reporting to the Senior Cloud and Identity Architect, Cloud Solutions Architect receives direction in the form of broad organizational objectives and translates these into design requirements, actionable tasks, or coordination efforts with other IT units. This senior IT architect will work to define end state solutions, starting with current conditions, with the ultimate goal of developing cloud services supporting UCSB’s instruction, research, and service missions.

10% Documentation and Other Duties as Assigned

• Creates, compiles, and maintains comprehensive documentation of systems in the group’s technology portfolio, including architectural designs.
• Other duties as assigne