692 words, 2.6 minutes read. By Gerard Blokdyk

Cloud Adoption Framework 1 big thing: Develop a (internal) customer centric, data driven model for training and adoption.

The big picture: Analyze and assess a (internal) clients information security program requirements, existing capabilities, and gaps, potential security tools to fill gaps and make recommendations to increase the programs maturity.

Why it matters: Establish and oversee the (internal) customers adoption, training and development of best practices to continually drive incremental value and return on the (internal) customers Investment.

On the flip side: Liaison so that your staff supports account planning and acts as a change agent for the practice and advocates internally to help (internal) customers transform to modern digital approaches.

What we’re hearing: “Ensure you engage directly with account teams through interactive coaching sessions that provide forums for peer-to-peer learning, expert advisory services, and resource recommendations to help teams drive growth.“, Supply Chain & Operations, Sourcing and Procurement Consulting Sr. Principal

Meanwhile: Confirm that your team synthesizes and combines various insights from their team and (internal) customer industry regarding business and Information Technology objectives for (internal) customer organizations using partnership with other account team leaders.

State of play: Make sure your company identifies and evaluates new security solutions and conducts proof of concept (POC) activities to determine best fit for enterprise.

Under the hood: Establish that your staff works with Services management to assess the amount of effort required for services engagements and provide input for the Scopes/Statement of Work generation.

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Between the lines: Warrant that your design is providing technical guidance or support for the development or troubleshooting of cloud systems, or to resolve cloud related issues.

What they’re saying: “Liaison so that your team and efficiently communicate and collaborate with external and internal (internal) customers of any hardware and software configuration changes that adversely affect any current system security and their configurations or violates policy.“, Information Security Management

Yes, but: Partner with software development and project management teams to prepare for customization or enhancements required for new engineering requirements, to enable better code quality, testability and release.

Be smart: Secure that your staff (internal) customers in all stages of their cloud adoption journey use these services, from first-time cloud users, (internal) customers migrating to AWS, or fully-in-cloud (internal) customers that need to access data from on-premises.

What to watch: Ensure you support and encourage a collaborative approach to cloud adoption, sharing best practices, helping change the culture of teams and strategic support to ensure success.

Go deeper: Make sure there is ability in performing rapid assessments of (internal) clients internal technology landscape and targeting use cases and deployment targets for Public Cloud technology.

The bottom line: Ensure your personnel is involved in building enterprise Scale Azure Cloud Solutions for large scale Cloud Migration, Application Modernization and Azure/Hybrid Cloud Operations.

What’s next: Partner with architecture and product teams to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address (internal) customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of cloud services.

ICYMI: Guarantee your team is involved in the design and development of cloud data solutions including data lake storage, relational data, semi structured data, streaming data, and event driven processing.

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Trusted by: Siemens, Kyndryl, Red Hat Software, General Dynamics Information Technology, Frontdoor, Benchling, Ciena, IT Data Solutions, Mursion Career Opportunities, Universal Orlando, University of Toledo, Facebook, Comcast, Mass General Brigham(PHS), SAP, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Trend Nation, Kite Pharma, Cedar Fair Corporate, Confidential, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, The Judge Group, SharpSearch, City of Atlanta, GA, Accenture, Deloitte, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies, BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc., UnitedHealth Group, Gartner, The Walt Disney Company (Corporate), Boston University, Georgia-Pacific, Brunswick Corporation, Production Resource Group Llc, Parker Hannifin Corporation, Google, Arsenal Biosciences, World Vision Canada, Northeast Georgia Health System, NBG Home, National Veterinary Associates, IBM, Orolia, Spotsylvania County, VA, PRICE WATERHOUSE COOPERS, Amazon.com Services LLC, Ross Stores, University of Kansas, Citi, Buckman, Box, Transurban Limited, Eastman, NAPA Auto Parts, The New York Racing Association Inc., Equitrans Midstream, Allstate, USAA, Zones, Matterport, DataRobot, Walt Disney World Resort, Standard Cognition, Krispy Kreme, Toast, Blackbaud, CBRE, Hollingsworth & Vose, Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, Raytheon Technologies Corporate, Ingram Micro, JLL, GenesisCare, USA, ServiceNow, Amerisave Mortgage Corporation, Regeneron, Tasteful Selections, LLC, avidxchange, Disney Cruise Line, CVS Health, Milwaukee Tool, Cenlar FSB, GWC Warranty, Newsmax Media, Inc., Catalent Pharma Solutions, US Office of the Chief Information Officer, Tosca, Centura Health, US Public Buildings Service, Reasons could include: the employer is not accepting applications, is not actively hiring, or is reviewing applications, Full Circle Fiber Partners, Telgian Corporation, Creatively Classic Activities and Books, US Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers, Mortgage Contracting Services, PTC, US Federal Acquisition Service, Leidos, MIDCONTINENT INDEPENDENT SYSTEM OPERATOR INC, IronFist Corporation, BAE Systems, Ent Credit Union, IntelliGenesis, LLC, Booz Allen Hamilton, MindPoint Group, LLC, Ho-Chunk, Coalfire, CyberLinx Solutions LLC, National Football League, Alston & Bird LLP, City of Phoenix, DRT Strategies, Inc., Concurrent Technologies Corporation, NCC Group, Elenchus Technologies, CACI, SysLogic, Inc., On-Board Companies, Applied Insight, Q2ebanking, ARxIUM, Integrated Data Services Inc., Telos Corporation, Raytheon Intelligence & Space, Clarity Innovations, Republic Services Inc, LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION, C2 Technology Solutions, Inc., T-Rex Solutions, Parsons, Qbase, Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated, Capital Solutions Group, Open Systems Technologies Corporation, Columbia Technology Partners, DCCA, EITR Technologies, LLC, Mr. Cooper, Guidehouse, DecisionPoint | Cortek, Fusion Technology LLC, Information Protection Solutions, Precise Systems, ERP International, LLC, RBR Technologies, FEDDATA, AMERICAN SYSTEMS, Prodigy One, LLC, B4CORP, Tucson Medical Center, 1 Source Consulting, Inc, Steampunk, Gulf States Financial Services, Masergy Communications, Inc., TechOpps Inc., ECS Federal LLC, Parsons Corporation, Aperio Global, LLC, EdgeWorks

618 words, 2.3 minutes read. By Gerard Blokdyk

Cloud Adoption Framework 1 big thing: Attend weekly product engineering meetings to consider issues pertinent to support.

The big picture: Confirm that your organization works closely with and provides leadership to the Security team to ensure that current and future cloud infrastructure meets Legislative Branch security requirements.

Why it matters: Be certain that your workforce is nurturing cloud computing expertise internally and externally to drive your core enterprise and cloud philosophies along best practices of performance, security and cost effectiveness.

Under the hood: Check that your company implements a standardized security framework and ensures that your organization moves through the capability maturity process toward increasing levels of competencies in information security.

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What they’re saying: “Warrant that your strategy ensures that team organization, individual development, and communication are in line with the (internal) client Services Delivery Stream and broader (internal) clients vision.“, IT Program Manager, Hybrid Digital Workplace

Yes, but: Make headway so that your company partners with IT Security Analysts and Enterprise Architects to establish, understand, and adhere to technical and IT security standards.

Be smart: Invest in system migration to the cloud supporting refactoring legacy system to modernize the application or integration services to leverage cloud native services and solutions.

Go deeper: Interface so that your company keeps management informed by submitting activity and results reports, as weekly status, and monthly and annual territory analyses.

Between the lines: Make sure the teams primary focus is defining public cloud architecture standards for use across your organization in support of application workload migration onto cloud platforms.

What we’re hearing: “Make sure the Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE) will perform, or review, technical security assessments of computing environments to identify points of vulnerability, non-compliance with established Information Assurance (IA) standards and regulations, and recommend mitigation strategies.“, CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER

State of play: Design and Implement Azure and Multicloud IT solutions and service offerings at (internal) customer sites locally, regionally, and nationally as well as provide feedback for improvement.

What to watch: Serve as a key member of the business development team in helping to define and deliver the joint solution set and supporting collateral for industry and service campaigns.

The bottom line: Work with internal stakeholders to communicate market realities regarding the economics of running IT applications and infrastructures in the when compared to a traditional data center environment.

What’s next: Conduct one to few and one to many sessions to bring appropriate knowledge about your service offering to your local and regional partners considering or already using Data Services.

ICYMI: Confirm that your strategy enables and empowers team to identify gaps and take ownership in driving action based on feedback and advocating on the (internal) customers behalf to drive resolution.

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Trusted by: Siemens, Kyndryl, Red Hat Software, General Dynamics Information Technology, Frontdoor, Benchling, Ciena, IT Data Solutions, Mursion Career Opportunities, Universal Orlando, University of Toledo, Facebook, Comcast, Mass General Brigham(PHS), SAP, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Trend Nation, Kite Pharma, Cedar Fair Corporate, Confidential, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, The Judge Group, SharpSearch, City of Atlanta, GA, Accenture, Deloitte, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies, BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc., UnitedHealth Group, Gartner, The Walt Disney Company (Corporate), Boston University, Georgia-Pacific, Brunswick Corporation, Production Resource Group Llc, Parker Hannifin Corporation, Google, Arsenal Biosciences, World Vision Canada, Northeast Georgia Health System, NBG Home, National Veterinary Associates, IBM, Orolia, Spotsylvania County, VA, PRICE WATERHOUSE COOPERS, Amazon.com Services LLC, Ross Stores, University of Kansas, Citi, Buckman, Box, Transurban Limited, Eastman, NAPA Auto Parts, The New York Racing Association Inc., Equitrans Midstream, Allstate, USAA, Zones, Matterport, DataRobot, Walt Disney World Resort, Standard Cognition, Krispy Kreme, Toast, Blackbaud, CBRE, Hollingsworth & Vose, Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, Raytheon Technologies Corporate, Ingram Micro, JLL, GenesisCare, USA, ServiceNow, Amerisave Mortgage Corporation, Regeneron, Tasteful Selections, LLC, avidxchange, Disney Cruise Line, CVS Health, Milwaukee Tool, Cenlar FSB, GWC Warranty, Newsmax Media, Inc., Catalent Pharma Solutions, US Office of the Chief Information Officer, Tosca, Centura Health, US Public Buildings Service, Reasons could include: the employer is not accepting applications, is not actively hiring, or is reviewing applications, Full Circle Fiber Partners, Telgian Corporation, Creatively Classic Activities and Books, US Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers, Mortgage Contracting Services, PTC, US Federal Acquisition Service, Leidos, MIDCONTINENT INDEPENDENT SYSTEM OPERATOR INC, IronFist Corporation, BAE Systems, Ent Credit Union, IntelliGenesis, LLC, Booz Allen Hamilton, MindPoint Group, LLC, Ho-Chunk, Coalfire, CyberLinx Solutions LLC, National Football League, Alston & Bird LLP, City of Phoenix, DRT Strategies, Inc., Concurrent Technologies Corporation, NCC Group, Elenchus Technologies, CACI, SysLogic, Inc., On-Board Companies, Applied Insight, Q2ebanking, ARxIUM, Integrated Data Services Inc., Telos Corporation, Raytheon Intelligence & Space, Clarity Innovations, Republic Services Inc, LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION, C2 Technology Solutions, Inc., T-Rex Solutions, Parsons, Qbase, Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated, Capital Solutions Group, Open Systems Technologies Corporation, Columbia Technology Partners, DCCA, EITR Technologies, LLC, Mr. Cooper, Guidehouse, DecisionPoint | Cortek, Fusion Technology LLC, Information Protection Solutions, Precise Systems, ERP International, LLC, RBR Technologies, FEDDATA, AMERICAN SYSTEMS, Prodigy One, LLC, B4CORP, Tucson Medical Center, 1 Source Consulting, Inc, Steampunk, Gulf States Financial Services, Masergy Communications, Inc., TechOpps Inc., ECS Federal LLC, Parsons Corporation, Aperio Global, LLC, EdgeWorks

680 words, 2.5 minutes read. By Gerard Blokdyk

Cloud Adoption Framework 1 big thing: Develop experience designing, developing, and shipping solutions on Azure or another public cloud.

The big picture: Guarantee your team maintains technical expertise, relevant industry standards, and best practices in cloud computing and virtualization technologies such as cloud service provider architecture, design, and configuration; cloud deployment models including public, community, private, and hybrid; cloud service delivery models including infrastructure-, platform-, and software-as-a-service; automation; hypervisors; containers; virtual compute, storage, and networks; virtual infrastructure management; self-provisioning; and scaling.

Why it matters: Design or integrate appropriate data backup capabilities into overall system designs and ensure that appropriate technical and procedural processes exist for secure system backups and protected storage of backup data.

Between the lines: Oversee that your strategy ensures that System Security Engineering industry best practices are established, implemented, enforced, and evaluated for compliance for technology and services that provide perimeter security, network security, endpoint security, application security, physical security, and data security for all information technology assets.

Yes, but: Design the end to end journey for partners to leverage key cloud frameworks, including Cloud Adoption Framework and Well Architected, across the (internal) customer journey.

The backdrop: Work closely with enterprise architects to identify and mitigate risks, perform security review, design top tier security practices and architecture, and deliver strategic, innovative cloud-based security solutions.

State of play: Drive and effectively manage multiple extremely strategic and complex projects with executive visibility and many critical dependencies across a variety of engineering and field teams.

What we’re hearing: “Engage with colleagues across a large, diverse, and distributed organization to drive decisive action that delivers results for expanding the market for Azure across international organizations.“, SCNO Sourcing & Procurement Manager – Contingent Labor

How it works: Participate in all aspects of the Cloud adoption and deployment lifecycle from concept, design, requirements, coding, customization, testing, and remediation through to packaging and deployment.

Under the hood: Ensure your organization believes in work flexibility to balance the demands of work and life while also connecting and collaborating with your colleagues in person one or two days a week.

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Be smart: Be confident that your group manages and forecasts unit level expenses which include department allocations, Product/Component, 3rd Party, project/program, software and vendor expenses.

Meanwhile: Ensure you are able to apply a range of advanced problem solving techniques to complex business issues, and apply creativity to the development of solutions.

What they’re saying: “Interface with both Internal and External (internal) customers in a consultative approach, offering knowledge sharing, expertise and direction in support of Product and Professional Services engagements.“, Strategic Sourcing and Procurement Analyst

The bottom line: Lead the adoption of cloud usage utilizing cloud solutions where practical and looking after all due considerations including security, support and costs etc.

What’s next: Align with and ensure (internal) customer Success Management team is aligned with goals of Chief (internal) customer Officer and (internal) customer Center of Excellence team.

ICYMI: Understand and make relevant the business objectives and strategy into a product strategy consumable by the teams and the product managers, turning technical conversations into product-grounded decisions.

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Trusted by: Siemens, Kyndryl, Red Hat Software, General Dynamics Information Technology, Frontdoor, Benchling, Ciena, IT Data Solutions, Mursion Career Opportunities, Universal Orlando, University of Toledo, Facebook, Comcast, Mass General Brigham(PHS), SAP, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Trend Nation, Kite Pharma, Cedar Fair Corporate, Confidential, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, The Judge Group, SharpSearch, City of Atlanta, GA, Accenture, Deloitte, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies, BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc., UnitedHealth Group, Gartner, The Walt Disney Company (Corporate), Boston University, Georgia-Pacific, Brunswick Corporation, Production Resource Group Llc, Parker Hannifin Corporation, Google, Arsenal Biosciences, World Vision Canada, Northeast Georgia Health System, NBG Home, National Veterinary Associates, IBM, Orolia, Spotsylvania County, VA, PRICE WATERHOUSE COOPERS, Amazon.com Services LLC, Ross Stores, University of Kansas, Citi, Buckman, Box, Transurban Limited, Eastman, NAPA Auto Parts, The New York Racing Association Inc., Equitrans Midstream, Allstate, USAA, Zones, Matterport, DataRobot, Walt Disney World Resort, Standard Cognition, Krispy Kreme, Toast, Blackbaud, CBRE, Hollingsworth & Vose, Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, Raytheon Technologies Corporate, Ingram Micro, JLL, GenesisCare, USA, ServiceNow, Amerisave Mortgage Corporation, Regeneron, Tasteful Selections, LLC, avidxchange, Disney Cruise Line, CVS Health, Milwaukee Tool, Cenlar FSB, GWC Warranty, Newsmax Media, Inc., Catalent Pharma Solutions, US Office of the Chief Information Officer, Tosca, Centura Health, US Public Buildings Service, Reasons could include: the employer is not accepting applications, is not actively hiring, or is reviewing applications, Full Circle Fiber Partners, Telgian Corporation, Creatively Classic Activities and Books, US Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers, Mortgage Contracting Services, PTC, US Federal Acquisition Service, Leidos, MIDCONTINENT INDEPENDENT SYSTEM OPERATOR INC, IronFist Corporation, BAE Systems, Ent Credit Union, IntelliGenesis, LLC, Booz Allen Hamilton, MindPoint Group, LLC, Ho-Chunk, Coalfire, CyberLinx Solutions LLC, National Football League, Alston & Bird LLP, City of Phoenix, DRT Strategies, Inc., Concurrent Technologies Corporation, NCC Group, Elenchus Technologies, CACI, SysLogic, Inc., On-Board Companies, Applied Insight, Q2ebanking, ARxIUM, Integrated Data Services Inc., Telos Corporation, Raytheon Intelligence & Space, Clarity Innovations, Republic Services Inc, LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION, C2 Technology Solutions, Inc., T-Rex Solutions, Parsons, Qbase, Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated, Capital Solutions Group, Open Systems Technologies Corporation, Columbia Technology Partners, DCCA, EITR Technologies, LLC, Mr. Cooper, Guidehouse, DecisionPoint | Cortek, Fusion Technology LLC, Information Protection Solutions, Precise Systems, ERP International, LLC, RBR Technologies, FEDDATA, AMERICAN SYSTEMS, Prodigy One, LLC, B4CORP, Tucson Medical Center, 1 Source Consulting, Inc, Steampunk, Gulf States Financial Services, Masergy Communications, Inc., TechOpps Inc., ECS Federal LLC, Parsons Corporation, Aperio Global, LLC, EdgeWorks

678 words, 2.5 minutes read. By Gerard Blokdyk

Cloud Adoption Framework 1 big thing: Support initiatives and special projects of other Information Systems teams with priority.

The big picture: Make sure the Climate Corporations data scientists and analysts expertly combine complex data layers (agronomic, grower, supply chain, commercial, clickstream, satellite imagery, genomics, weather) and continually investigate, experiment, and find insights that drive your mission.

Why it matters: Establish that your company is involved in leading the definition of cloud adoption strategies for large scale enterprise data and analytics solutions and use cases.

Be smart: Be confident that your team drives adoption and compliance of security standards across development and infrastructure teams both inside of and under contract with your organization.

Under the hood: Interface so that your process is identifying motivators and drivers for cloud adoption and unlocking business value for your (internal) customers; Creating compelling business cases for the transition to the cloud.

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What they’re saying: “Be sure your process leads customer/partner projects that implement technical architecture(s) to enable a breadth of highly advanced and complex solutions.“, Director of Vendor Management

Between the lines: Lead internal skills development activities on new technologies and solutions driven by cloud DevOps requirements, by providing mentoring and by conducting knowledge sharing sessions.

What to watch: Ensure that the architecture and design of information systems are functional and secure, including the program of record systems and special purpose environments with platform IT interconnectivity.

Yes, but: Lead bi weekly public cloud review meetings with each LOB to review demand pipeline, current initiatives, and risk/issues pertaining to upcoming deliverables.

On the flip side: Secure that your company is responsible for the design, review, evaluation and strategy of architectures, and construction of cloud service provider environments that are consistent with architecture principles, standards, methodologies and best practices.

Go deeper: Develop experience working directly with (internal) customers to drive adoption of best practices in data analytics system architectures, resolving database, systems and infrastructure related issues.

State of play: Apply technology expertise (Azure Cloud, Applications, Datacenter services, Network and Service management), Industry best practice and innovative ideas to architect/design solutions, evaluate multiple options to meet (internal) clients business requirements.

What we’re hearing: “Interface so that your organization provides technical expertise in the analysis of (internal) clients requirements and objectives to develop IT services offerings that provide significant value to the geography, which also includes recommending solutions and assisting account teams with development of proposals, quotations, and presentations.“, Sourcing/Procurement Specialist

The bottom line: Establish that your workforce creates functional strategies and specific objectives for the sub function and develops budgets/policies/procedures to support the functional infrastructure.

What’s next: Work on multiple projects utilizing agile methodologies to provide target state solutions that best fit the business requirements and align to enterprise goals.

ICYMI: Provide strategic and technical activities to support the development of a Sponsor integrated data management architecture baseline aligned with Sponsor and Sponsors partners data management activities, identify opportunities to integrate new data management and analytic technologies to enhance data discoverability, and provide technical guidance to drive Sponsor cloud adoption.

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Trusted by: Siemens, Kyndryl, Red Hat Software, General Dynamics Information Technology, Frontdoor, Benchling, Ciena, IT Data Solutions, Mursion Career Opportunities, Universal Orlando, University of Toledo, Facebook, Comcast, Mass General Brigham(PHS), SAP, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Trend Nation, Kite Pharma, Cedar Fair Corporate, Confidential, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, The Judge Group, SharpSearch, City of Atlanta, GA, Accenture, Deloitte, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies, BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc., UnitedHealth Group, Gartner, The Walt Disney Company (Corporate), Boston University, Georgia-Pacific, Brunswick Corporation, Production Resource Group Llc, Parker Hannifin Corporation, Google, Arsenal Biosciences, World Vision Canada, Northeast Georgia Health System, NBG Home, National Veterinary Associates, IBM, Orolia, Spotsylvania County, VA, PRICE WATERHOUSE COOPERS, Amazon.com Services LLC, Ross Stores, University of Kansas, Citi, Buckman, Box, Transurban Limited, Eastman, NAPA Auto Parts, The New York Racing Association Inc., Equitrans Midstream, Allstate, USAA, Zones, Matterport, DataRobot, Walt Disney World Resort, Standard Cognition, Krispy Kreme, Toast, Blackbaud, CBRE, Hollingsworth & Vose, Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, Raytheon Technologies Corporate, Ingram Micro, JLL, GenesisCare, USA, ServiceNow, Amerisave Mortgage Corporation, Regeneron, Tasteful Selections, LLC, avidxchange, Disney Cruise Line, CVS Health, Milwaukee Tool, Cenlar FSB, GWC Warranty, Newsmax Media, Inc., Catalent Pharma Solutions, US Office of the Chief Information Officer, Tosca, Centura Health, US Public Buildings Service, Reasons could include: the employer is not accepting applications, is not actively hiring, or is reviewing applications, Full Circle Fiber Partners, Telgian Corporation, Creatively Classic Activities and Books, US Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers, Mortgage Contracting Services, PTC, US Federal Acquisition Service, Leidos, MIDCONTINENT INDEPENDENT SYSTEM OPERATOR INC, IronFist Corporation, BAE Systems, Ent Credit Union, IntelliGenesis, LLC, Booz Allen Hamilton, MindPoint Group, LLC, Ho-Chunk, Coalfire, CyberLinx Solutions LLC, National Football League, Alston & Bird LLP, City of Phoenix, DRT Strategies, Inc., Concurrent Technologies Corporation, NCC Group, Elenchus Technologies, CACI, SysLogic, Inc., On-Board Companies, Applied Insight, Q2ebanking, ARxIUM, Integrated Data Services Inc., Telos Corporation, Raytheon Intelligence & Space, Clarity Innovations, Republic Services Inc, LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION, C2 Technology Solutions, Inc., T-Rex Solutions, Parsons, Qbase, Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated, Capital Solutions Group, Open Systems Technologies Corporation, Columbia Technology Partners, DCCA, EITR Technologies, LLC, Mr. Cooper, Guidehouse, DecisionPoint | Cortek, Fusion Technology LLC, Information Protection Solutions, Precise Systems, ERP International, LLC, RBR Technologies, FEDDATA, AMERICAN SYSTEMS, Prodigy One, LLC, B4CORP, Tucson Medical Center, 1 Source Consulting, Inc, Steampunk, Gulf States Financial Services, Masergy Communications, Inc., TechOpps Inc., ECS Federal LLC, Parsons Corporation, Aperio Global, LLC, EdgeWorks

610 words, 2.3 minutes read. By Gerard Blokdyk

Cloud Adoption Framework 1 big thing: Build business development pipeline by engaging with key prospects, (internal) customers and partners.

The big picture: Design resources to be used to lead (internal) customers based on risks or areas for improvement that are identified in engagements, as well as helping your (internal) customers improve their Operational Excellence through the adoption of your best practices.

Why it matters: Analyze and advise on the risk and remediation of security issues based on reports from vulnerability assessment scanners, patch management tools, and emerging threat information.

How it works: Liaison so that your company is responsible for introduction of new emerging technologies, cloud adoption plans, cloud infrastructure design, and cloud management strategies.

What they’re saying: “Be confident that your design partners with the Enterprise Architecture team on the creation of the conceptual architecture that addresses the high level business requirements.“, Global Sourcing Manager

The backdrop: Guarantee your organization designs and implements information assurance and security engineering systems with requirements of business continuity, operations security, cryptography, forensics, regulatory compliance, internal counter-espionage (insider threat detection and mitigation), physical security analysis (including facilities analysis, and security management).

What to watch: Understand the technical requirements of your (internal) customers and work closely with the internal development team to guide the direction of your product offerings for developers.

Between the lines: Develop and maintain security governance program to ensure security compliance with security policies, standards, regulatory and contractual requirements, and industry security frameworks/standards and best practices.

Go deeper: Create a playbook and cadence for all aspects of delivery and (internal) customer success and continue to refine value-based metrics and scorecards which allow for a fast and predictable snapshot of account health.

Be smart: Ensure your Cloud Engineering offering focuses on enabling your (internal) clients end to end journey from on premise or co location to Cloud.

On the flip side: Participate in the security architecture design review and change review processes and provide security consulting and/or approval to ensure that security architecture adequately addresses in strategy plans, environmental changes, and proposed architecture designs.

The bottom line: Make headway so that your team designs implementation of new systems, and participates in analysis, design and development/construction of next generation IT systems.

What’s next: Verify that your workforce recommends compliance and risk management requirements for supported area and works with other stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives including design controls, business process management and metrics.

ICYMI: Be certain that your workforce is identifying motivators and business drivers for cloud adoption and unlocking business value for your (internal) customers; Creating compelling business cases for the transition to the cloud.

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Trusted by: Siemens, Kyndryl, Red Hat Software, General Dynamics Information Technology, Frontdoor, Benchling, Ciena, IT Data Solutions, Mursion Career Opportunities, Universal Orlando, University of Toledo, Facebook, Comcast, Mass General Brigham(PHS), SAP, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Trend Nation, Kite Pharma, Cedar Fair Corporate, Confidential, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, The Judge Group, SharpSearch, City of Atlanta, GA, Accenture, Deloitte, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies, BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc., UnitedHealth Group, Gartner, The Walt Disney Company (Corporate), Boston University, Georgia-Pacific, Brunswick Corporation, Production Resource Group Llc, Parker Hannifin Corporation, Google, Arsenal Biosciences, World Vision Canada, Northeast Georgia Health System, NBG Home, National Veterinary Associates, IBM, Orolia, Spotsylvania County, VA, PRICE WATERHOUSE COOPERS, Amazon.com Services LLC, Ross Stores, University of Kansas, Citi, Buckman, Box, Transurban Limited, Eastman, NAPA Auto Parts, The New York Racing Association Inc., Equitrans Midstream, Allstate, USAA, Zones, Matterport, DataRobot, Walt Disney World Resort, Standard Cognition, Krispy Kreme, Toast, Blackbaud, CBRE, Hollingsworth & Vose, Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, Raytheon Technologies Corporate, Ingram Micro, JLL, GenesisCare, USA, ServiceNow, Amerisave Mortgage Corporation, Regeneron, Tasteful Selections, LLC, avidxchange, Disney Cruise Line, CVS Health, Milwaukee Tool, Cenlar FSB, GWC Warranty, Newsmax Media, Inc., Catalent Pharma Solutions, US Office of the Chief Information Officer, Tosca, Centura Health, US Public Buildings Service, Reasons could include: the employer is not accepting applications, is not actively hiring, or is reviewing applications, Full Circle Fiber Partners, Telgian Corporation, Creatively Classic Activities and Books, US Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers, Mortgage Contracting Services, PTC, US Federal Acquisition Service, Leidos, MIDCONTINENT INDEPENDENT SYSTEM OPERATOR INC, IronFist Corporation, BAE Systems, Ent Credit Union, IntelliGenesis, LLC, Booz Allen Hamilton, MindPoint Group, LLC, Ho-Chunk, Coalfire, CyberLinx Solutions LLC, National Football League, Alston & Bird LLP, City of Phoenix, DRT Strategies, Inc., Concurrent Technologies Corporation, NCC Group, Elenchus Technologies, CACI, SysLogic, Inc., On-Board Companies, Applied Insight, Q2ebanking, ARxIUM, Integrated Data Services Inc., Telos Corporation, Raytheon Intelligence & Space, Clarity Innovations, Republic Services Inc, LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION, C2 Technology Solutions, Inc., T-Rex Solutions, Parsons, Qbase, Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated, Capital Solutions Group, Open Systems Technologies Corporation, Columbia Technology Partners, DCCA, EITR Technologies, LLC, Mr. Cooper, Guidehouse, DecisionPoint | Cortek, Fusion Technology LLC, Information Protection Solutions, Precise Systems, ERP International, LLC, RBR Technologies, FEDDATA, AMERICAN SYSTEMS, Prodigy One, LLC, B4CORP, Tucson Medical Center, 1 Source Consulting, Inc, Steampunk, Gulf States Financial Services, Masergy Communications, Inc., TechOpps Inc., ECS Federal LLC, Parsons Corporation, Aperio Global, LLC, EdgeWorks