Sr. AWS Architect

Job Description:

• Drive engagements related to assessing and maturing AWS Cloud usage, automation, and DevOps best practices.
• Provide leadership, mentorship and advisory services to engineers and project team to ensure that solutions are in line with the architecture direction and business strategies
• Influence and provide input in the future direction for enterprise architecture programs. Provide robust and scalable technology solutions to enable our customers to scale their operations into public cloud
• Provide a detailed understanding of cloud software, platforms and/or infrastructure services and well-architected principles
• Assist in defining technology direction for our customers.
• Participate in Agile sprints and associated activities
• Define and document architecture and technology standards reference architectures and solution architectures; constraints, and guidelines
• Manage and mentor junior architects
• Provided upward information to project leadership
• Provide thought leadership across the practice
• Bring new ideas and approaches to project teams

Required:

• 10+ years design & implementation experience with distributed applications and systems. Can whiteboard and explain both designs as well as why to use them.
• 10+ years’ experience in information technology, enterprise data-center technologies and private cloud
• 6+ years of hands-on experience with architecting solutions on AWS
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code (CloudFormation, Terraform, Hashicorp Terraform foundational templates)
• Strong understanding of cloud security requirements, tools, and best practices
• Strong understanding of the current state of infrastructure automation, continuous integration/deployment, SQL/NoSQL, security, networking, and cloud-based delivery models
• Experience with enterprise architecture and best-practices (AWS WAF)
• Strong knowledge of setting up Landing Zones utilizing ControlTower, ServiceCatalog, AWS IAM, etc.
• Working knowledge of software development and automation tools and methodologies (Jenkins, Git, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Python, etc.). Expected to be the go-to resource for subject matter knowledge within AWS and DevOps tooling.
• Hands on experience designing solutions and systems for high availability and disaster recovery.
• Experience in Infrastructure and Application Security, Monitoring and logging tools implementation
• Working knowledge of Containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
• Good knowledge in serverless technology and implementation
• Scripting abilities with one or more general purpose programming languages (Python, JavaScript)
• Experience in the business technology market, and expertise working closely with sales and marketing teams in cloud computing or related technical fields.
• Advanced Fluency with talking and managing stakeholders’ expectations and having insight into the root cause of issues

Desirable:

• Cloud related certifications (AWS)
• Working knowledge of VMware, KVM or another virtualization software