RQ10145 - Solutions Designer - Senior

Description:

**This position is on a part\-time/as\-needed basis with approximately 2\-3 days a week.

• Design, drive setup and help to establish support of EHS solutions on OPS cloud
  


• Develop, provision and maintain MOH EHS solutions’ configuration on top of the OPS cloud infrastructure
  


• Work with relevant architects to ensure that the solution at every stage is aligned with the proposed/approved architecture
  


• Develop solution documentation including configuration guides
  


• Maintain the configuration in version control system (such as GitHub and Azure DevOps)
  


• Re\-produce configuration to multiple environments of the solution’s lifecycle (Dev\-to\-Prod) via automated CI/CD pipelines
  


• Develop and maintain the above CI/CD pipelines to include:
  


• re\-usable cloud environment configuration on top of the OPS cloud
  


• deployment of COTS and MOH\-custom applications
  


• related configuration components
  


• Provide guidance to MOH Operations on:
  


• optimization of solutions’ configuration via cloud native and 3rd party tools for optimal cost/performance ratio
  


• solutions monitoring and troubleshooting
  


• alerts and notifications
  


• restoration/redeployment of a solution in the event of unrepairable environment crash
  


• help to determine feasibility of environment repair vs. redeployment
  


• Assist with 3rd level solutions troubleshooting
  


• Stay up to date on MOH architecture roadmaps and cloud services lifecycle, upcoming new/end\-of\-life versions, changes in cloud service functionality and cost models and proactively notify the stakeholder
  


• Guide the DR and failover exercised using and creating automated processes
  


• Proven communication skills and technical leadership skills with an ability to identify areas for improvement and recommend solutions.
  


• Work collaboratively with the architecture team to create the required architectural artefacts
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Skill Set Requirements:

Solution Design Experience:

10+ years of experience in the following:

• Consulting with developers and COTS vendors to determine solution requirements
  


• developing, provisioning, and maintaining of MOH EHS solutions’ configuration for large, complex, highly available, mission critical on\-prem and cloud solutions
  


• Creating system requirements and design specifications
  


• Applying security principals and protecting high\-sensitive information in the designed solutions
  


• Implementing integrations to both On\-premise and cloud infrastructure, i.e. AWS cloud platform, Microsoft Azure cloud
  


• IT compliance and risk management requirements (e.g. security, privacy, etc.)
  


• Batch & real time integration technologies
  


• Optimization of solutions’ configuration via cloud native and 3rd party tools for optimal cost/performance ratio
  


• Solutions monitoring and troubleshooting
  


• Alerts and notifications on downtimes, errors and similar events
  


• Restoration/redeployment of a solution in the event of unrepairable environment crash
  


• Determining feasibility of environment repair vs. redeployment
  

Technical experience:

• Liaison with ITS Solution Designers and Builders to instantiate the solution onto OPS cloud
  


• Development and implementation of RESTful and SOAP web services, JSON and XML
  


• Designing Azure and AWS cloud solutions
  


• Maintaining the configuration in version control system (such as GitHub and Azure DevOps)
  


• Re\-producing configuration to multiple environments of the solution’s lifecycle (Dev\-to\-Prod) via automated CI/CD pipelines
  


• Development and maintenance of the CI/CD pipelines to include:
  

• re\-usable cloud environment configuration
  


• deployment of COTS and MOH\-custom applications
  


• related configuration components
  


• Working knowledge of documentation and planning, tracking, and managing agile software development projects tools such as Jira and Confluence. Fluency in git\-based source code management and version control systems \- Git, GitHub, GitLab etc.
  


• Experience in and understanding of best practices across Information Security domains; e.g. Encryption, Identity & Access Management, Application Security, Auditing & Monitoring, access control, Network zoning and Health Care IT systems
  

Communication Skills:

• Experience leading a team of developers, assigning tasks, mentoring junior developers, coordinating components for successful delivery
  


• Experience in writing technical documentation – configuration guides , how to wiki, specification docs, run books etc.
  


• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, problem\-solving and decision\-making skills
  


• Conducting research and assessment of options for technical design issues
  


• Contributing to design/development of project plans, including work breakdown and resource plans
  


• Verbal and written communications skills
  


• Interpersonal and negotiation skills
  


• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
  


• Experience with the projects related to 24x7 critical environments and operations
  

Project Management:

• Able to work on multiple assignment concurrently
  


• Proven and demonstrable troubleshooting and analytical skills
  


• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  


• Strong Interpersonal and negotiation skills.
  


• Strong consulting skills to engage with all stakeholders.
  


• A demonstrated team player with a proven track record for meeting deadlines