DevOps Solution Lead/Architect (AWS)

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** We will NOT accept 3rd Party (C2C) Contractors **
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Position:DevOps Solution Lead/Architect (AWS)
JOB REF#:
Duration:12+ Months (Contract)
Location:ONSITE - Plano, TX 75024
Pay Rate:$90.00 per hour (W2 Only)

This role is 100% ONSITE - LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY

HOURS: MON-FRI 8:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m. (CDT)

DAILY TASKS:
Perform as an accountable resource and take ownership on assigned projects and tasks for delivery with quality and in a timely manner using Agile/JIRA best practices.
Partner with application teams as a trusted advisor to ensure compliance and adoption of organizational SecDevops standards, processes, and industry best-practices for developing and deploying MicroServices in public cloud environments.
Guide the technical leads to create the component and process flow diagrams and assist the application support team for performance, scalability, reliability, and capacity planning.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
Perform as an individual contributor and colleague who enjoys collaborating with, learning from, and mentoring program team members on security disciplines to bolster overall security posture to lower the business risk profile.
Solve complex problems around connected vehicle technology for mobility and Telematics by troubleshoot issues and debug codebases.
Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of AWS cloud-based production system.
Adapt new technologies, tools, processes from the organization as needed.
Communicate with team members and work collaboratively.
Maintain and improve existing codebases and peer review code changes.
Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS production systems.
Management of creation, release, and configuration of production systems.
System troubleshooting and problem resolution across various application domains and platforms.
Review code and technical approaches for problem solving to ensure functional and non- functional requirements are met in an effective and high-quality manner.
Provide guidance and mentor technical teams across multiple architecture styles and technologies to ensure high quality design/implementation, re-use of enterprise/common patterns, improve code quality and testability/maintainability by ensuring
standard design practices and removing duplication of effort.
Help ensure high quality software delivery by providing guidance on testing strategy, providing technical consultation to plan/design performance testing and profiling of application, and providing feedback/guidance for tuning performance and other
non-functional elements.
Define and communicate complex technical and operational solutions and translate complex topics into simple business language to drive the value alignment. Preparing technical solution and architecture documents, artifacts, work products and
presentations.

REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:
**Candidates will have to pass a coding test**
5+ years' experience in Information Technology with 2+ years in an Architecture environment
MUST have experience in IaC - Terraform
Must have achieved mastery in ONE of the SecDevops practices: IaC-Terraform, SONAR, Git-CI Cloud-AWS, CICD-Git/Argo, MicroServices architecture deployment (primarily Kubernetes) with awareness about site reliability engineering principles
Experience with Source Control and Continuous integration tools.
Strong analytical and reasoning skills.
Solid experience with Cloud Services (AWS), Cloud engineering, Architecture, and Software As A Service (SaaS).
Hands-on experience in AWS Services IAM, VPC, EKS, CloudFront, and APIGW.
Scripting experience with Bash/Shell, Python.
CI (preferably Gitlab CI) and CD (preferably Argo CD).
Kubernetes debugging experience.
Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology.

DESIRED SKILLS:
Cloud Platform Engineering team manages several tool stacks, expertise in more than one of the following: AWS ECS, EC2, S3, SNS, SQS, MKS, Batch, Lambda, Cognito, SG, RDS, Cert Manager, Route 53, ALB, Param Store, Config, etc.
IaC: Terraform Preferred, CloudFormation
CI & CD: GitLab Preferred, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Artifactory, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Argo CD, Serverless
Secrets Management: HCP Vault, AWS Secrets Manager
Networking: Transit GW, VPC Peering, NAT, Istio, Traefik, HCP Consul, Nginx, Section.io, etc.
Scripting: Python, GO, Bash/Shell, JavaScript, YAML, JSON
Build Tools: Maven, Gradle, NPM, Bazel, Go
Databases: RDS, SQL, MySQL, Postgres, RedShift, MongoDB, DynamoDB
Security Scans: SAST, Secrets, Container, DAST, Xray, Prisma Cloud
Logging and Monitoring: DataDog, Splunk, App Dynamics, ELK, Grafana
Good knowledge of authentication/authorization standards, protocols, and frameworks such as OpenID, SAML, OAuth, JWT, CA, X.509, MTLS, etc. with a conceptual knowledge of IT Architectural frameworks, such has TOGAF with good
understanding of service mesh and TechRadar practices

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Calance Consultant Benefits Offerings:
- EPO/PPO Medical Plans
- HMO/PPO Dental programs
- Vision - VSP (Vision Plan Summary)
- 401K Retirement vesting program (VOYA)
- Paid Bi-Weekly/Direct Deposit
- Flex Spending Plan
- Voluntary Life, AD&D, STD or LTD plans