A client with Kforce is seeking a Cloud Solutions IT Architect to join their team in Jacksonville, FL. This is a remote position, but it is highly preferred that this person be local to Jacksonville FL. Summary: In this role, the Cloud Solutions IT Architect is responsible for public cloud enablement at client site, as a team member of the Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE). Part of the CCoE role is to assist with the adoption of public cloud through architected frameworks, developing reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC), pipelines and sharing success stories where public cloud has been adopted. The Cloud Solutions IT Architect is responsible for Cloud IaC automation, modular code pipelines, such as self-service portals that enable teams to easily consume the public cloud(s) to build and manage AWS accounts, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects and Microsoft Azure subscriptions. This role also requires the ability to deploy infrastructure guardrails through code that scale the enterprise cloud organizations by deploying resources managed through code that enable logging that feeds that data into Splunk. Cloud governance is a key role of the CCoE where the Architect will work with the Maximus cloud engineering, cloud delivery and cloud operations, project teams for notify them of non-compliance infrastructure resources. The CCoE collaborates closely with the security teams to enforce the written security and compliance standards as guardrails within the public cloud(s). These guardrails help the project product and platform teams operate safely within the cloud(s). The Cloud Solutions IT Architect encourages continuous learning through demonstrating CCoE services that are available to projects deployed in the public cloud(s).