Cloud Architect

What You’ll Do

Lead engagements with clients creating and designing migration solutions for AWS environments
Leverage common Infrastructure as Code tools to define AWS environments and workloads
Design deployment patterns and high-level orchestration strategy for Configuration Management and Continuous Deployment tools deliver infrastructure and applications to AWS environments
Plan migrations of bare metal and VM hosted applications to containers and serverless functions
Migrate operations of existing platforms to a highly available and scalable architecture (web applications, databases, storage, etc.)
Direct delivery staff on migration of on-premises data and applications to AWS
Implement optimized AWS architectures that account for cost, availability, and scalability needs
Communicate regularly with both clients and internal resources about project status and changes

Education

Bachelor’s Degree strongly preferred
Certifications related to cloud provider strongly preferred (or attained in first 90 days)

Experience
Business Skills

Creative Problem-Solving: Approaching migration challenges with a clear eye on what is important; employing suitable approach/methods to make the maximum use of time and human resources.
Effective Collaboration: Carefully listening to customers, management, engineers, and architects to establish their needs.
Intellectual Curiosity: Exploring new territories and finding creative and pragmatic ways to solve migration problems and efficiency.
Industry Knowledge: Understanding and perspective of how industry functions and how migrations are efficiently analyzed, planned for, and executed.

Technical Skills

5-10 years system engineering/administration experience on Linux or Windows
3-5 years of experience with a major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
3+ years of experience with AWS if other experience is Azure/GCP
2-3 years of experience with Infrastructure as Code tools – Terraform preferable, alternate tools acceptable
Domain of expertise in one of the following areas:
Windows, Linux, Containerization, Serverless, Machine Learning, or Software Development
Strong scripting experience on Linux or Windows (Bash/Fish/ZSH, Python, PowerShell) including use of the AWS SDK or CLI
2-3 years of experience managing common security controls (IAM, Least Privilege, Firewall, Patching, Antivirus, etc.)
Strong understanding of enterprise, network, system and application-level architecture
Experience utilizing common source control systems (git, VSTS, SVN) and project structure/organization
Experience with CI practices with a common tool (Jenkins, Travis, CircleCI, Bamboo)
Proven ability to effectively communicate with all levels of staff and management

Job Type: Contract
Pay: $100,959.70 - $134,575.13 per year
Benefits:

401(k)
Health insurance
Paid time off

Schedule:

8 hour shift

Work Location: In person