Senior Cloud Solutions Architect

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide strategical and tactical scope and work directly with the business representatives/customers to understand the requirements driving the need for a solution to be developed
• Communicate effectively with both business and technical colleagues throughout the course of the project
• Ensure that all the appropriate questions are asked and verify that nothing crucial to the success of the project is overlooked
• Be an AWS evangelist by educating a variety of customers on the value of AWS
• Help customers transition to the cloud in a high-value migration approach that leverages best of breed designs and practices delivered in an agile model.
• Work with customers to enable a DevOps culture and modernize operations and release strategies
• Establish credibility and build impactful relationships with our customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
• Lead in deep architectural discussions to build confidence and ensure customer success when building new, or migrating existing, applications, software and services on the AWS platform.
• Conduct deep dive “hands-on” education/training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers interested in AWS and to ensure our SAs are up to date
• Attend and present valuable information at Industry Events

Qualifications:

• Work as a technical leader alongside customer business, development, and infrastructure teams.
• Lead technical and design discussions with IT executives to help enterprises speed their adoption of new technologies and practices.
• You will have 10+ Yrs experience in architecting application infrastructure with an understanding of agile/scrum, Configuration Management, Infrastructure Automation.
• Must have hands-on architecting, designing or developing applications on AWS (other hyperscalers is nice to have)
• Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability.
• Must have hand-on experience writing IaC (Cloudformation, Terraform,CDK), Bash and Python scripting (PoweShell is nice to have)
• Leverage new technology paradigms (e.g., serverless, containers, microservices).
• Migrate monolithic applications to microservices architectures.
• Advise on implementing AWS best practices.
• Influence infrastructure architecture by sharing your application development expertise. 
• Occasional travel to client locations to deliver professional services. 






Skills and Technical Requirements


• 10+ years design & implementation experience with distributed applications
• 10+ years of experience in networking, infrastructure, or database architectures
• In depth understanding and professional experience with AWS services and infrastructure
• Must have "Hands on" experience with practices and services related to Automation, IaC and DevOps, being able to write IaC and Python code.
• Demonstrated knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
• Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT management, and developers
• Excellent communication skills with an ability to right level conversations
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly






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Preferred

• Cloud Certifications 
• Demonstrated success as a software developer, infrastructure architect, or consultant working with various platforms.
• Architecting, designing and developing applications on the AWS platform.
• Designing and building application using Container and Serverless technologies.
• Expert understanding of Agile software development and DevOps practices such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration and automated deployment.
• Continuous Integration (CI) tools (e.g. Jenkins).
• Experience with configuration management platforms (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible).
• Strong practical application development experience on Linux and Windows-based systems.
• Presenting at public events such as technology conferences, hackathons, blogging, writing on technical forums, etc. 
• Experience working directly with customers, partners or third-party developers.

Sponsorship

• This role is not sponsorship eligible
• Candidates need to be legally allowed to work in the US for any employer.