Hello,
Position : AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Location : Washington, DC Metro
Job Type : Full-Time or Contract
Job Description:
- 10+ years of experience with enterprise application architecture strategies, patterns, standards and reference implementations in alignment with overall IT strategy for our customers.
- As the AWS Solution Architect, you must have extensive experience with AWS Cloud. The Cloud Solution Architect role will focus on architecture, design, and implementation of application resiliency in AWS and or other public Cloud providers environment.
- Apply AWS Well-Architected Framework to validate solution/architecture on AWS
- Design solutions using best practices for various AWS services
- Create roadmaps for migrations of legacy and large scale applications to AWS
- The role requires you to be able to work closely with customers, application developers, architects and infrastructure engineers to deliver resilient solutions in a team-oriented environment.
- The role will require that you be familiar with current and emerging cloud technologies, tools and system architectures.
- Develop KPIs that provide in-depth visibility into system health
Responsibilities:
- Understand business goals and drivers and translate those into an appropriate technical solution
- Gather technical requirements, assess capabilities and provide appropriate cloud solution recommendations and adoption strategy
- Contribute to cloud strategy discussions and decisions on overall Cloud design and best approach for implementing cloud solutions.
- Focus on continuous improvement practices as required to meet system resiliency imperatives
- Define high availability and resilience standards and best practices for adopting AWS and other Cloud provider services.
- Establish the appropriate monitoring and alerting of solution events related to performance, scalability, availability, and reliability.
- Design, test and support solutions resiliency in the Cloud and on-premises
- Liaison with other architects (security, infrastructure, data, etc.) and with delivery teams working primarily within an Agile (Scrum) methodology
- Support the adoption of DevOps methodology and Agile project management
- Communicate complicated technical concepts effectively to a broad group of stakeholders.
- Provide mentoring, knowledge transfer and assist in training for other team members.
Qualifications:
- Must have AWS Solutions Architect Professional Certification
- 10+years engineering, architecting and delivering infrastructure technology solutions and leading teams focused on platform and application engineering
- 5+ years of experience delivering large scale cloud-based product operations (SaaS)
- Direct experience designing and supporting deployment and automation solutions on public/private cloud environments specifically AWS
- Specific experience developing solutions within the AWS ecosystem of services, products, and solutions
- Other cloud experience, such as Azure or Google, a plus
- Demonstrated broad experience across a variety of operations and services including DevOps, Pipeline Construction, Release automation and deployment (Jenkins, CloudFormation, Chef, Team Foundation Server, Code Pipeline)
- Experience building high availability services at scale
- Demonstrated ability leading an open, highly collaborative team
- Ability to estimate the financial impact of various solution architecture alternatives
- Excellent oral and written communication skills along with ability to communicate at all levels.
Skills:
- Knowledge of AWS cloud monitoring tools (cloud watch, cloud trail, Splunk, and other application monitoring.)
- Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes in an AWS or GCP production context
- Infrastructure tools such as Terraform, Packer, Ansible and Vault
- Kubernetes operators is a plus
- EKS/multiple Kubernetes clusters, preferably with federation
- Network infrastructure design and security best practices, including VPCs, VPNs and IAM
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or another related field or Equivalent.
Regards,
Teja
(678) 823-8873
teja@futuralistech.com
Futuralis Tech