Role: AWS Principle Architect, the PRINCIPLE is the highest level
Location: Fully Remote, The closer to the DMV area the better
Duration: Long Term Contract
DESCRIPTION:
ALL REQUIRED
Requirements: Strong skills are required in each of the following areas:
Development: Experience programming with one or more languages: Python, Java, Groovy, Go, etc.
IAC Tools for Platform Automation: Strong skills and experience in at least one: Ansible, Terraform, etc.
Containers: Docker or other OCI-certified containers
Container Orchestration Platform : Experience with Kubernetes, and AWS EKS is preferred, However Red Hat OpenShift, Platform 9 is acceptable.
CNI Plugins: Calico, Flannel, Weave Net etc.
Service Mesh: Istio, AWS App Mesh, OpenShift Service Mesh etc.
Container Security Tools: Twistlock, Sysdig, Aqua etc.
Platform Monitoring, Observability, & Performance Tools: Nginx, New Relic, AppDynamics, DataDog, Thanos, Jaeger, LogDNA, etc.
DevOps Tools: Git/bitbucket, Jira, Ansible/Puppet, Jenkins/Circleci/Bamboo, Maven/Artifactory/nexus, etc.
Others:
· Understanding of Cloud Native Architecture
· Linux, Shell scripting, and general admin skills
· Network, Security, Plugins, & Storage Skills
· AWS skills: EC2, S3, EBS, EFS, IAM, VPC, Lambda etc.
Nice to have:
· AWS Cloud and DevOps certifications
Roles & Responsibilities:
· Communicates Architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies, while highlighting short-term trade-off’s vs. long-term commitments and costs
· Engage in and improve the end to end Lifecycle of services, starting from Inception & design, deployment, operations, and refinement
· Help drive Engineering and Cloud Operations activities including System design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews
· Systems Scalability and sustainability leveraging automation and strive to improve our systems with changes that improve reliability and velocity
· Experience with Enterprise Cloud transformation efforts
· Be part of our Cloud automation journey and as a member of our team help lead platform automation and reliability for our platform
· Actively participate and help guide customers on using Cloud-native design and architecture patterns.
· Provide Consultation on Technology infrastructure planning and engineering for assigned systems; Assesses the implications of technology strategies on infrastructure capabilities
· Build strategy to migrate Legacy applications by conversion to multiple Microservices and hosting on AWS Cloud platform.
· Leverage Cloud-native architecture components including Containers, immutable infrastructure, Microservices, Service Mesh etc., to build highly available and Fault tolerant applications.
· Research on the global technology trends and their applicability to FEPOC products in support of our internal development teams and business.
· Promotes and ensures Modern application design, applies engineering best practices in the development and operations life cycle and mitigates vulnerabilities.
· Monitors and manages the Stability, Availability, and Performance of enterprise systems and platforms across IT domains
o (e.g., Systems, Network, Storage, Security) by analyzing systems to identify problems, trends, and opportunities for improvement.
· Maintain and continually improve (patch and upgrade) our Cloud-based infrastructure.
· Makes data-driven recommendations and decisions, and continuously improves the overall efficacy and efficiency of our software delivery capability.
· Mentoring peers as well as engaging with others across teams and socializing solutions.