AWS Cloud Architect

Johnson Technology Systems Inc; Virginia Beach (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson Technology Systems Inc is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to join their Professional Services team. This role combines technical leadership and hands-on implementation, helping customers on their cloud journey. You will collaborate with teams on AWS services, guiding applications' development and migration.

Successful candidates will have a strong technical degree, extensive AWS experience, and the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders. This position may require travel to client locations, representing JTSI/AWS in various environments.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of IT implementation experience.
• Strong ability to represent JTSI/AWS within customer environments.
• Expertise in large scale, high performance enterprise application deployment.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with JTSI/AWS teams for AWS service implementation.
• Guide customers in building and migrating applications using AWS.
• Deliver on-site technical engagements with partners and customers.

Skills

Customer facing skills

Architecting and migrating applications on AWS

Communication skills

IT implementation experience

Expertise in security solutions on AWS

Agile methodologies

Education

BS level technical degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3)

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Job description

Job Description

Duration: 12 months+

Location: Remote Now – After pandemic stabilizes either in Picatinny, NJ or APG, MD or Ft. Belvoir, VA

Certification: CompTIA Security+ certification is preferred.

Clearance: Interim or Active Secret clearance required

Job Description

As a Senior Cloud Architect in our Professional Services team, you will be an extended part of our customer’s technical teams. As an expert, you’ll help them make decisions on their cloud journey. This role combines thought leadership across the globe with cutting code, designing architectures, and helping our customers build system components as they move and build new applications in the cloud.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with JTSI/AWS teams to help partners and customers learn and use AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Simple DB/RDS databases, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), etc.
• Guide customers to ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services following the principles of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Define and deliver on-site technical engagements with partners and customers. This includes participating in on-site visits with prospective customers, understanding customer requirements, and proposing and delivering packaged offerings, and delivering custom solution engagements.
• Delivery Engagements include on-site projects proving the use of AWS services to support new distributed computing solutions that often span private cloud and public cloud services. Engagements will include migration of existing applications and development of new applications using AWS cloud services.
• Work with engineering and support teams to convey partner and customer needs and feedback as input to technology roadmaps. Share real world implementation challenges and recommend new capabilities that would simplify adoption and drive greater value from use of AWS cloud services. Our Consultants work with enterprise customers locally, regionally and potentially domestically. As such, Consultants will be required to travel to client locations to sell and deliver professional services as needed.

Qualifications

Required:

• BS level technical degree or equivalent professional
• Customer facing skills to represent JTSI/AWS well within the customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management and risk mitigation
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges
• Highly technical and analytical, possessing 15 or more years of IT implementation experience
• Proven experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies required
• Strong experience in Architecting, designing and migrating applications on the AWS platform
• Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (eg. security, privacy, SOX, HIPPA etc.)
• Experience working directly with customers, partners or third-party developers
• Strong verbal and written communications skills and ability to lead effectively across organizations
• Ability to travel to client locations as needed (25-50%)
• Expertise in Large scale , high performance enterprise application deployment and Solution architecting on complex heterogeneous environments on AWS.
• Expertise in security solutions on AWS.
• Expertise in Infra capacity sizing, costing of AWS services to drive optimized solution architecture, leading to optimal infra investment vs performance and scale.
• Expertise in articulating architectural choices within various AWS services and solution methodologies. Expertise in AWS foundation services is a must ( EC2, RDS, S3, SNS)

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• Demonstrated success as a Cloud Infrastructure architect or consultant working with various platforms
• Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability
• Good exposure to Agile software development and DevOps practices such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration and automated deployment
• Presenting at public events such as technology conferences, hackathons, blogging, writing on technical forums, etc.

Additional Information

We promote a Drug-Free Workplace and are an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and affirmative action employer.