Position Title: Solutions Architect DevOps + AWS Location(city and state): Newton, New Jersey, USA (Remote till COVID)
Salary: As per market
Experience: Total Years of experience: 18-20 years
Relevant experience: 8-10 years
Description
Solution Architect with technical depth and architecture skills. In this role, you'll work closely with pre-sales, business units and engineering on some of you will be part of customer engaging team of technical PMs and engineers responsible for implementing new deployments and execute POCs and pilot migration projects etc. Ideally candidates with exposure in Global markets across US, UK, Continental Europe, APAC including Indian market will be preferred.
- Position Sr. Solutions Architect DevOps + AWS
- Designation Principal Consultant/Sr. Solutions Architect/Deputy General Manager
- Experience - A minimum of 18 - 20 years of experience in a consulting, architecture, DevOps position with a software and/or services company.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Understand customer's IT estate, LOB applications, IT and business priorities and success measures to design implementation architectures and cloud native solutions.
Collaborate with network, security, and application architects and SMEs to develop enterprise grade solutions.
Leading the development of AWS architecture patterns, blueprints and standards
Solutions architecture design for AWS platform services & monitoring framework using architectural design principles based on customer requirements
Reviewing implementation of platform services to ensure alignment against design AWS well architected framework
Develop innovative solutions to complex business and technology problems.
Draft technical solution for migration, multi account multi region deployments, modern architecture, AWS Landing zone, control tower.
Keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights and maintain technical skills and knowledge.
Draft hybrid connectivity and networking landscape for the clients on boarding to AWS.
Work with clients to transform manual processes and deployments into DevOps automated pipelines using AWS native services.
Advocate new features and solutions to bring operational efficiency and cost reduction.
Drive architectural decisions from Infrastructure as code (IaC) and automation lens.
Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision makers.
Define long term cloud strategy and enhancement roadmap.
Develop test plan and test cases to demonstrate application/database readiness post migration or greenfield deployment.
Work closely with application teams to ensure business functionality and SLAs are met.
Consult for optimal design of environments, analysing complex distributed production deployments, and making recommendations to optimize performance.
Act as a subject-matter expert on AWS and assist Sales/Pre-Sales in RFP activities.
Mandatory Skills:
Bachelor's degree in Information Science / Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, MCA or a related field.
Subject matter level expertise on AWS Network & Security, AWS Compute (EC2) & Storage, Backup & DR, Monitoring, AWS Governance & Cost Management, Migration, DevOps .
Rich experience in Migration projects and good knowledge of migration tools (native and third party) like CloudEndure, MGN.
Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.
Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible , Jenkins etc.,)
Configuration management using Ansible and/or Chef/Puppet, Shell, PowerShell.
Implementing experience with primary AWS services (EC2, ELB, ECS, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, Route53 & S3)
Deep hands-on experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale.
Develop test plan and test cases to demonstrate application/database readiness post migration.
Work closely with application teams to ensure business functionality and SLAs are met.
Demonstrable experience working with Kubernetes and Docker administration (EKS and ECS).
Good architectural knowledge to design, build AWS Cloud Native solutions and integrating 3rd party tools required for customer delivery/ Cloud estate.
Experience in PaaS services like RDS, Lambda, API gateway, Redshift, Glue etc.
Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior IT executives and growing data services in large or highly strategic accounts.
Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.
Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively.
Resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences (Senior Executives, IT management and developers)
Desired Skills:
Min. 6 years demonstrable experience working with AWS in an architecture capacity
Min. 4 years experience working as a Lead DevOps engineer or an AWS Solutions Architect
Expertise in containerization Docker and Kubernetes
Experience in IaC tools Terraform and Ansible etc.,
Experience of developing Solutions architecture designs in tools such as MS Visio, Draw.io etc.
Experience of building and implementing enterprise-wide architecture principles, framework, standards, blueprints and patterns
Proficiency in any development language like Python, Golang or Ruby
Demonstrable experience of facilitating solution design workshops
Deep understanding of DevOps concepts (Agile, CI/CD and Automation)
CloudFormation deep expertise (cfn hup, cfn init, custom resources, stack sets etc.)
Strong hands-on experience on CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, Team city etc.
Experience in working with AWS CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline
Data analysis pipelines knowledge (Glue, EMR, Redshift, DMS, Kinesis) etc.
Certifications :
Must have - AWS Certified Solution Architect-Professional Level
Must have - AWS Specialty Certification - Networking or Security (Either 1 will do)
Good to have - AWS Certified DevOps Professional
Good to have - AWS Certified developer/Architect/Sysops associate
Good to have - Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Nice to have - Enterprise architecture qualifications (e.g. TOGAF, ZachMann)
Nice to have - HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate