AWS/Cloud Solutions Architect

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

• Resource will work in the Department of Child Services (DCS). Child Welfare (CW) IT Office.
• This position is responsible for monitoring, maintaining, and configuring various AWS-based systems and infrastructure which support strategic initiatives and projects.
• This position will support building of new systems, maintaining current systems, and working with other DevOps teams using standard processes, application management, and maintenance of documentation and standard operating procedures.
• This position supports mainly in AWS services such as EC2, IAM, S3, Route 53, Lambda, SQS, Secret Manager, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, VPC, RDS especially Database Administration activities on Aurora Postgres DB, and Application Load Balancer.
• Provides support for Linux running in AWS (Amazon Linux and CentOS).
• Open to learn and ready to provide support on installation and configuration of applications such as Jira/Confluence/qTest applications running in AWS. This includes deploying new/existing software including business application software and automate deployment and other maintenance services such as upgrades, and fixes.
• Provides support in terms of configuring and remediation related action for cloud security.
• Research new technologies to provide solutions to business needs. Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

• 7+ Years of overall IT experience in Design and Development of Web, and Cloud based application.
• 3+ Years of hands-on experience in Amazon Web Services including EC2, VPC, S3, EBS, IAM, RDS, Cloud Watch.
• Experience of designing and architect server less web applications using AWS Lambda, and API Gateway
• Experience of Shell scripting on Linux environment. Unix Administration experience is a plus.
• Programming Languages: C#, Bash Shell Scripting, Java Scripting.
• Experience with AWS Data Migration Services.
• Experience Architecting Backup/Restore and Disaster Recovery of AWS workloads and Databases.
• Experience with AWS CLI and Python and PowerShell Scripts.
• Experience in Well-Architecting of AWS Elastic Container Services, Elastic Container Registry, EC2 Instances and Application Load Balancers
• Experience in Cloud Network architecture, establishing VPN tunnels, VPC peering and VPC's for different AWS accounts.
• Experience using and maintaining S3, EBS, EFS, SES and SQS
• Experience on CI/CD pipeline for code deployment (tools -Jenkins, CodePipeline). Including configuration of these tools.
• Experience of Object-Oriented programming languages C# with SOAP and RESTfull Web Services development is a PLUS.
• Splunk Experience in consuming http forwarder within AWS applications to collect and push data to Splunk.
• End-to-End Monitoring using Splunk (SaaS) SIEM tool Highly Desired.
• An understanding of the basic architectural principles of building on the AWS Cloud.
• AWS Certification is Desired.