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AWS Cloud Solution Architect with Devops & Azure
IL-Chicago
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USC/ CTH

Position Description/Responsibilities:
Client is in the midst of a multi-year, strategic transition to the cloud and in need of a senior solution architect with a proven track record of delivering customer solutions in a fast-paced, agile environment, and operationalizing value-added services that capitalize on cloud capabilities, including DevOps, Self-service, and Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings.

The solution architect will perform infrastructure solution architecture for strategic and customer-driven initiatives, and guide the evolution of [Azure|AWS] capabilities. We need a collaborative and self-directed individual who, in partnership with other Solution Architects, will engage customers and stakeholders to clarify expectations, apply relevant standards and best-practices, and drive the delivery of infrastructure solutions and services in [Azure|AWS]. The successful candidate knows how to balance a strong results-orientation with continuous improvement. This will be a collaborative role, necessitating strong interpersonal and influencing skills in addition to broad IT domain knowledge, particularly in DevOps, Security, and Architecture Governance practices.

Responsibilities
Analyzes new solution requests, solicits and clarifies non-functional requirements, and formulates conceptual and physical architectures, to rapidly deliver infrastructure solutions in a fast-paced, multi-vendor, cloud-first environment
Drive opportunities to accelerate deployment through identifying, proving, and leading implementation of automation and optimization solutions
Triages technology proposals against existing infrastructure standards and best practices, and leads subsequent solution and variance activities
Performs collaborative solution assessments that represent multiple foundational disciplines (especially platform, cloud services, network, security, data management & integration, service management & operations), makes recommendations consistent with standards and acceptable practices, and influentially communicates across the organization
Uses own subject matter expertise and appropriate stakeholders to evolve infrastructure standards that improve time to market, economics, and brand protection for global technology solutions
Supports Enterprise Architecture activities by driving service roadmaps, strategic planning, and optimization in [Azure|AWS], and taking a lead role in setting organizational standards for the optimal use of technologies

Position Requirements/Technical Skills:


Minimum Requirements
5 years experience in a senior-level infrastructure Engineering or Architecture role
2 years minimum direct experience architecting solutions in [Azure|AWS]
Expert level working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts and toolchain (e.g. Atlassian and HashiCorp product suite, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, CFT, ARM, Artifactory, Visual Studio Team Services, etc
Broad exposure to multiple areas of technology, particularly application development, cloud infrastructure and operations management, DevOps, and security
Appropriate [Azure|AWS certification] or demonstrated, equivalent work experience across all knowledge areas required
Ability to work collaboratively in a predominantly supplier-enabled, outsourced technology delivery environment
Excellent written, verbal, and meeting facilitation skills
Experience with agile methodologies, particularly Kanban
Experience in global and retail environments highly desired
             

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