Sr. Cloud Architect - AWS

Sr. Cloud Architect - AWS

Location: Atlanta, GA (Day-1 Onsite/Hybrid)

Duration: 12+ months

Visa: USC,GC,H1B

Rate: $80-85/hr. on C2C

Client: Delta Airlines

Exp.: 14-15+ Yrs.

Note: Must have LinkedIn profile with 500+ Connections

GRADE: Architect Level - Hands On

Description:

Qualifications:

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? / WHAT EXPERIENCE DO YOU NEED?

- 7-8+ years of experience in design and implementation of large enterprise public cloud environments

- AWS Certified Professional preferred

- 5-6+ years of hands-on experience integrating mission critical applications into AWS

- Deep understanding of AWS such as IAM, VPCs, Landing Zones, Control Tower, AVM (Account Vending Machine), EC2, EBS, KMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Systems Manager, S3, RDS, Route53, Lambda, AWS Config, etc.)

- Experience building and securing infrastructure as code using CloudFormation, Ansible, Java, Python and/or similar tools and languages.

- Infrastructure Automation (IaC) - applying IAM Roles, Policies & SCP to AWS Services, not just IaaS automation

- Solid working knowledge of TGW, VPCs & PrivateLink

- Ability to integrate any combination of these services into IaC around other AWS Services (S3, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, etc)

- Fluency with one or more scripting/coding languages such as Java, Javascript, REST, JSON, Python, bash

- Experience implementing and leveraging the logging and monitoring solutions

- Experience in cloud native architectures and micro-services design

- Understanding of the shared responsibility model in AWS

- Proven record of accomplishments in major enterprise level projects

- Experience in design of complex distributed systems environments

- Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges

- Ability to clearly communicate and present to various levels of the organization

- Strong organizational and analytical skills with attention to detail

- Independent and self-motivated and very thorough worker

WHAT ELSE?

- Candidate must have excellent communication skills (both written and verbal), demonstrated teamwork skills, be innovative, creative and have strong problem-solving abilities.

Responsibilities:

The AWS Cloud Architect will provide technical leadership for technical design, planning, implementation of foundational AWS integration, including both infrastructure and security integrations. In addition to AWS Foundations build out, responsibilities include evaluation of new cloud technologies, and automation and tooling of these environments to support Developer Self-Service (DevOps) capabilities for deployment of complex, multi-tiered application environments into AWS.

The Cloud Architect will provide leadership and direction for these technology areas, mentoring team members to drive organizational maturity. The Cloud Architect will also consult with development teams to ensure platform fit aligned to the business application requirements. Additionally, understanding of APIs, micro-services development, containers and supporting platform technologies also required. This position reports to the Director of Cloud Platforms and Solutions Engineering within the Infrastructure & Reliability organization.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES IN THIS ROLE

- Provide technical leadership and design expertise for AWS Foundations integration

- Define standards and patterns for when and how to efficiently leverage AWS services

- Lead automation of AWS integration processes and tasks

- Develop frameworks to enable dev teams to consume authorized AWS services

- Lead automation, using Ansible or CloudFormation, to support acceleration of application deployments into AWS

- Ensure Security-by-Design is a foundational component of every workload deployed into AWS

- Contribute to creation, management and upkeep of Intranet FAQs, User guides and Knowledgebase, standards and build documents for AWS Foundations integration

- Provide leadership in identifying new concepts, ideas, techniques, and technology assistance (best practices, guidelines and design patterns for supported technologies)

- Perform cost benefit analysis to determine best system architectures

- Aid development of Public Cloud Usage Statistics and Reporting dashboards for account owners

- Mentor engineering and development staff on public cloud integration design and hygiene, driving quality, consistency, resiliency, security and supportability into designs

- Design and maintain standard templates, reference architectures, and design patterns that aid other Cloud Engineers in development of standards-based design