Cloud Solutions Architect

Commercial Programming Systems

United States

On-site

USD 120,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

A leading IT services company seeks a Solutions Architect specializing in cloud migrations and modernization. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in cloud application infrastructure design and significant expertise in AWS/Azure environments. This role involves leading architectural standards and optimizing business application solutions to enhance efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

Qualifications

8+ years of IT architecture experience with cloud focus.
Hands-on deployment experience in AWS/Azure.
Experience with compliance standards and network technologies.

Responsibilities

Design and develop cloud-based application infrastructures.
Establish architectural standards for DevOps practices.
Optimize architecture to manage costs and maintain vendor relationships.

Skills

AWS Cost Explorer

CI/CD pipeline

Cloud architecture

Infrastructure automation

Observability tools

Network principles

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Certified Solutions Architect Professional

Certified DevOps Engineer Professional

Tools

AWS

Azure

Jenkins

CircleCI

Datadog

Splunk

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Contractor shall meet the following key high-level work products and outcomes:

Function as subject matter expert on design and development of cloud-based applications infrastructure
Establish architectural standards that enable DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, and automated continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD)
Translate organizational level business requirements and use cases into architectural capabilities verified to meet the requirements
Design solution-independent architecture models that map business services to cloud application stacks
Continuously manage, monitor, and update architecture models as business needs evolve and additional cloud services become available
Participate in optimizing solution, component, and application infrastructure architectures to manage costs and identify cost control mechanisms
Assist product owners, solution architects, and application architects in designing scalable, highly available, secure, cost-effective solutions that leverage cloud infrastructure services
Utilize cost/benefit models with mapping architecture to business outcomes and KPIs
Maintain technical vendor relationships and maintains up-to-date and extensive knowledge of cloud products and technology
Participate in business case development and validation (for enterprise level business cloud projects)
Curate cloud infrastructure reference architecture documentation
Other related tasks identified by LADBS.

The qualified candidate must possess the following skills and experience:

Bachelor’s degree in computer Science or engineering related field or equivalent work experience; Certified Solutions Architect Professional and Certified DevOps Engineer Professional highly desired
8+ years of IT architect experience, with at least 3 years in AWS/Azure Cloud Architecture demonstrating hands-on deployment and operation of AWS/Azure based solutions
Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining business application on AWS/Azure stack, leveraging services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, MSK, SQS, Lambdas, AWS Step functions, Redshift, Tableau, AWS Glue, AWS Directory Service, RDS and Aurora and leveraging third party support structure and similar services on Azure.
Experience in building and maintaining complex path to production pipelines including fan-in-fan-out, Blue/Green and Canary deploys on wellknown CICD platforms such as Jenkins, CircleCI, GitlabCI, GoCD etc
Good understanding of AWS Cost explorer and experience optimizing infrastructure cost on AWS
Experience with compliance standards such as ISO-27000 family, CCM, PCI-DSS and experienced in leveraging industry standard security tools
Hands-on experience in building, provisioning, deploying, testing and monitoring enterprise grade software
Integration of cloud services with on premise technologies
Experience in leveraging Observability tools such as Splunk/Datadog/New Relic or equivalent
Experience in industry standard tools providing Edge services such as Cloudflare/Cloudfront/Akamai etc.
Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g. shell, Python, Ruby, PowerShell)
Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC), CI/CD pipeline, agile/iterative and agile/scrum methodologies
Hands on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience with an AWS/Azure Cloud focus
Experience with networking principles and technologies (DNS, Load Balancers, Reverse Proxies, VPNs, BGP)
Experience driving discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management and risk mitigation
Willingness to research and self-study to keep technical skills relevant in a highly complex environment
Ability to mentor and lead training for internal platform and capability teams focused on Cloud Infrastructure and the CICD.cloud team.

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