AWS Strategic Architect – Remote
Responsibilities
Provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership to our customers while working with a world class sales and business development team
Form deep relationships with clients and be the trusted technical advisor on all matters related to public cloud, containerization & modernization
Establish Cloud & DevOps CoE & C4E for our large enterprise customers to ensure successful transformation and adoption
Assess the Customers' knowledge of cloud platform and overall cloud readiness to support the customers through a structured development plan and ensure its delivery
Generating public cloud migration roadmaps and blueprints
Analyzing application portfolios, identifying dependencies & common infrastructure platform components, and assessing migration feasibility.
Demonstrate solid understanding of large-scale public cloud implementations and make strong contributions to design & architecture
Author and contribute to technical white papers, blog posts and reusable content
Educate customers on best practices & value proposition to ensure solutions are designed up to world class standards
Participate and contribute to development of engineering accelerators.
Participate and conduct educational sessions and design exercises for our customers
Establish software best practices; Analyze requirements & specifications to design & develop solutions
Ability to help develop and implement security measures related to the development process
Mentors and coaches other members of the agile team
AWS Specific
8 + years AWS Architecture experience is highly desirable
AWS Solution Architect certification is highly desirable
Demonstrate experience of various AWS infrastructure, services and their limitations with strong knowledge of Kubernetes and Elastic Kubernetes
Strong understanding of the advantages and limitations of various AWS services
Have implemented a DevOps model on AWS
Must have
15+ years of experience with at least 10+ years of Public cloud transformation & DevOps
At least 5+ years of experience working in an Agile team
Experience working with Kubernetes and CNCF ecosystem
Experience working with microservices architecture, REST APIs & API Gateways principles and patterns
Background in Software Development, DevSecOps, Site Reliability, and/or Systems Engineering
Have experience building and deploying solutions as containers on a cloud platform using an automated CI / CD pipeline
Experience in configuring, monitoring and handling scaling infrastructure in cloud
Experience working with real time observability solutions that provide visibility into system health
Author best practices around provisioning production and non-production environments in cloud
Experience implementing advanced security, authentication and single sign-on across hybrid cloud
Implemented end-to-end automated delivery pipeline for continuous application development
Have evaluated products/technology & created IT Roadmap for adoption
Added advantage
Intermediate/advanced knowledge of AWS/GCP/Azure services
Industry certifications in Solutions Architecture (AWS/Azure/GCP)
Experience of working in a technical role within a sales organization
Experience/ knowledge of infrastructure and security requirements, such as HIPAA, PCIS, CJIS, etc.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or additional comparable experience
Proven experience in IT, application development or DevOps, including excellent knowledge of networking, computing and storage
Background in DevOps, Software Development, Site Reliability, or Systems Engineering.