AWS Cloud Architect

Role Overview

• This job is responsible for defining an architectural vision and solution aligned to the enterprise architecture strategy, technology, and platform choices.
• Key responsibilities include describing the solution intent/associated operating environment, evaluating system impacts, determining the primary systems/sub-systems and their interfaces, and assisting with end-to-end solution design.
• Job expectations include defining non-functional requirements/architectural runway to support new epics/features and ensuring solutions are fit for purpose by working with stakeholders and service providers.
• Consults with the business and operations to identify and understand challenges and opportunities to improve the use and effectiveness of technology, find creative solutions through knowledge of the domain, practical experiments, and Proof of Concepts, and aligns the solution intent and architectural vision to an evolving backlog of technology change.
• Works with product management and other stakeholders to plan and prioritize technology focused backlog items for the architecture runway to enable business epics/features.
• Performs design and code reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements for a solution are sufficiently met (for example, security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability).
• Leads rapid shaping of a high level architecture with details filled in with emerging business requirements and ensures architecture is flexible, modular, and designed to adapt easily.
• Educates team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions.
• Clarifies the architecture and assists with system design for the development teams to support implementation and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments.
• Utilizes the defined best practices, templates, and documentation to create architectural designs and suggests improvements to best practices and templates.
• Working with version control tools such as Bitbucket or Github.
• Perform Patch management tasks include: maintaining current knowledge of available patches, deciding what patches are appropriate for particular systems, ensuring that patches are installed properly, testing systems after installation, and documenting all associated procedures.
• Recommend and implement system enhancements that will improve the performance and reliability of the system including installing, upgrading/patching, monitoring, problem resolution, and configuration management.
• Test new releases of products to ensure compatibility and minimize user impact.
• Develop and document technical processes and procedures as needed.
• Provide technical assistance and support for incoming queries and issues related to computer systems, software, and hardware.

Requirements

• Minimum 5+ years in Cloud Technologies preferably AWS
• Minimum 5+ years of experience with deployment orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, ECS, and Elastic Beanstalk
• Minimum 5+ years of experience working with CI/CD tools such as CircleCI or Jenkins
• Minimum 5+ years of experience with Docker and Docker-Compose
• Minimum 5+ years with configuration management and automation tools (e.g., Puppet, Ansible, Chef, CloudFormation, SaltStack, Terraform)
• Knowledge of AWS and its associated technologies, both from DevOps and CloudOps perspective
• Knowledge of Amazon ECS Cloud instances and configuration
• Creating S3 buckets and manage IAM rule based policies
• Design and manage highly scalable/available Cloud Infrastructure
• Extensive knowledge of Terraform and infrastructure as code
• Extensive knowledge of CI/CD tools and configuration of build and release pipelines
• Strong Linux system administration experience
• Strong programming experience in at least one language (python, node, java, go, c/c++, ruby)
• Experience with logging and monitoring tools such as ELK, DataDog or NewRelic, LogEntries, SumoLogic, etc.
• Experience with Incident Management and crisis management
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• AWS
• Chef
• Cloud
• Docker
• Java
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Node.js
• Puppet
• Python
• Ruby
• SaltStack
• Terraform

Benefits

• This role is currently benefits eligible.
• We provide industry-leading benefits.
• Access to paid time off.
• Resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.