IaC (AWS) Architect

TechDigital Group; Berkeley Heights (NJ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled AWS Cloud Consultant/Engineer to join their dynamic team. This role involves managing and developing the AWS cloud platform, collaborating with development teams to deploy applications, and ensuring the infrastructure's scalability and high availability. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in automation, DevOps, and a strong understanding of AWS services. This position offers an exciting opportunity to work on innovative projects and engage with clients across global markets, making a significant impact in cloud technology solutions.

Qualifications

• 9-12 years of hands-on experience in infrastructure delivery and automation.
• Proficiency in AWS services and DevOps tools.

Responsibilities

• Automate solutions and deploy applications using AWS services.
• Manage AWS infrastructure and ensure high availability.
• Troubleshoot issues and implement performance solutions.

Skills

Infrastructure Automation

AWS Services

Python

DevOps Scripting

CI/CD Tools

Configuration Management

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

PowerShell

CloudFormation

Job description

Experience:
Total Years of experience: 12+ years
Relevant experience: 5+ years

Description:
AWS Cloud Capability Delivery Unit is looking for experienced customer-focused AWS Cloud Consultant/Engineer with technical depth and architecture skills. In this role, he/she will be responsible for managing and developing the AWS cloud platform. This includes working with the development team to deploy applications, managing and scaling the AWS infrastructure, and ensuring high availability of the platform. The engineer will also work closely with the operations team to troubleshoot and resolve issues with the platform.
Specifically, you will be part of a customer-engaging team of technical PMs and engineers responsible for implementing new custom deployment pipelines and executing POCs and pilot migration projects with a modernized approach. Ideally, candidates with exposure in global markets across the US, UK, Continental Europe, APAC, including the Indian market will be preferred.

Position: AWS Cloud Engineer/Consultant
Experience: A minimum of 9-12 years hands-on experience in infrastructure delivery, designing and implementing solutions with proficiency in automation and DevOps tools.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Automate solutions for repeatable problems.
• Work with clients to transform manual processes and deployments into DevOps automated pipelines using AWS native services.
• Develop test plans and test cases to demonstrate application/database readiness post-migration.
• Work closely with application teams to ensure business functionality and SLAs are met.
• Develop innovative solutions to complex business and technology problems.
• Keep up to date with market trends and competitive insights and maintain technical skills and knowledge.
• Advocate new features and solutions to bring operational efficiency and cost reduction.
• Key focus on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation.
• Work with the development team to deploy applications to AWS.
• Manage and scale AWS infrastructure.
• Ensure high availability of the AWS platform.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues with AWS platform and applications.
• Identify, troubleshoot, and implement solutions to performance, scaling, and availability issues across the platform.
• Work with the security team to ensure compliance standards are met.

Mandatory Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Science / Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, MCA, or a related field.
• Experience in any one programming language like Python, Node.js, etc.
• Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (e.g., shell, PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Hands-on experience of automating the build and deployment of AWS resources, using Terraform, at both the platform level (e.g., Landing Zone) and across compute, storage, network data, and security services.
• From a development background, the individual will have experience of the Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC), preferably with hands-on experience working with Python, and be familiar with an agile delivery framework (e.g., Scrum).
• Strong hands-on experience on CI/CD tools like Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.
• Configuration management using Ansible and/or Chef/Puppet.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.
• Implementing experience with primary AWS services (EC2, ELB, ECS, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, Route53 & S3).