Job Description :
AWS Architect (NO 3rd party candidates)
Dallas, TX.
6 to 12 months
Position Summary:
Responsible for designing, creating, communicating and executing the Enterprise Private, Hybrid and Public Cloud Strategy. This role will focus on developing Enterprise Cloud capabilities, both internal, hybrid and external, and all cloud service types; IaaS, PaaS, and Saas. Collaborates with the Infrastructure, Technology Risk Management and Application Development organizations during Cloud System design and development phases, providing advice, interpretation, and review of Enterprise Cloud architecture and design principles. Focuses on overall project technical and architecture design, quality of solution, knowledge transfer to other areas, and mentoring the project technical team members. Conducts research and understands cloud computing industry trends with regards to technology and adoption, and can understand and evaluate the use of automated tools and utilities and how they relate in support of overall Enterprise Architecture.
Experience (Mandatory):
Minimum of 10 years experience in IT platform, storage, and network virtualization architecture and engineering, including:
In depth knowledge of private, hybrid and public cloud offerings and vendors
In depth knowledge of the complete VMware datacenter and desktop technology stack.
In depth knowledge of alternative hypervisor platforms and their management capabilities (Xen, XenServer, KVM, Hyper-V
In depth knowledge of storage and network virtualization technologies, capabilities, trends and the automated interaction with the physical infrastructure (EMC, NetApp, HP, Cisco
In depth knowledge of virtualization management and monitoring technologies, capabilities and market trends
In depth knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Microsoft Windows Server Operating platforms
In depth experience with Cloud methodologies (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), automation, orchestration, cost frameworks, trends and industry-leading private/public/hybrid cloud vendor offerings and interoperability
Experience with Amazon Services such as AWS, S3, Elasic load balancing / Block / Relational Database
Experience architecting automated data center processes, including provisioning, application and patch management, monitoring and alerting, capacity monitoring and planning, leveraging execution and human approval workflow design and implementation
Experience with Business Continuity and Disaster Recover design, planning and implementation for virtualized infrastructures
Experience in Linux System Administration
Experience scripting with bash, Ruby, Python and/or similar
Experience in virtualization tools like Vagrant and Docker
Experience with Continuous Development/Deployment/Integration design and best practices
Experience managing and working with configuration management tools (Chef, Ansible)
Experience in Agile development practices (Kanban or Scrum)
Ability to see opportunities for improvement, take ownership and work closely with others to drive operational improvement
Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to correlate system behaviors based on known interdependencies between those systems
Ability to handle ambiguity, embracing change and helping others see it as an opportunity and able to stay focused on goals while adapting to change
Experience (Preferred):
Experience with IBM Mainframe platforms including LPAR, IFL, zVM & zLinux
Experience with IBM P-Series platforms including LPAR, dynamic LPAR, Micro-Partitioning, Virtual I/O Server and Capacity on Demand
Experience with MS Windows (server and desktop), Solaris, Linux (RHEL & SLES), AIX Operating platforms
Experience with Web technologies including web services architectures and security
Experience with RDBMS technologies including Oracle RAC, Sybase, MS-SQL, DB2
Experience with 10G & 40G network technologies and I/O Virtualization
Experience overhauling legacy applications to work with modern technologies
Experienced with Atlassian as an Agile development management tool (JIRA)
Experience with various application architectures
Knowledge/Skills:
Maintains current knowledge of marketplace changes, technology changes, and client businesses pertinent to cloud, server, storage and network virtualization
Possesses a comprehensive knowledge of the Process Architecture
Possesses a detailed understanding of Domain/Area/Team applications and their development throughout all phases of the lifecycle
Possesses in-depth knowledge of the business units that the Domain supports
Exemplifies leadership characteristics in support of corporate objectives
Demonstrates proficiencies in business case development, program management, issue resolution, and communication
Excellent analytical problem solving skills with a methodical approach to problem resolution across large scale distributed platforms
Strong knowledge of multi-tiered application environments, including their design, implementation and capacity/scaling challenges
Strong knowledge related to public/private/hybrid cloud solutions and market trends, PaaS, SaaS, storage and network optimization
Education, Training or Certification:
Experience with Amazon's EC2, VPC, and S3, Microsoft's Azure, OpenStack and either the JBoss SOA stack
In depth knowledge of Cloud Management tools and methodologies
AWS Certified Solutions Architect preferred, with extensive hands on experience as a Cloud Architect in an enterprise environment
Advanced degree in a technical discipline preferred