Cloud Solution Architect

Senior Cloud Engineer/Solutions Architect
Jersey City, NJ - 3 days a week onsite
Contract to hire
Qualifications:

• 15+ years of relevant experience mostly in a financial industry environment
• Advanced cloud implementation experience using compute, storage, networking and security services and cloud native best Practices on AWS.
• Proven background working in an Enterprise IT environment.
• Familiar with IaC tools, Terraform, CloudFormation
• Design capabilities aligned with the well-architected framework
• EC2, Unix/Linux, User Data, Ansible
• Kubernetes, Serverless
• Experience with Kafka a plus
• Networking and Security
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Python, Docker
• Experience collaborating with Infrastructure and Application teams
• Self-disciplined, self-starter who can provide leadership and mentor others while resolving complex incident and delivering projects
• Knowledge of SDLC and CI/CD best practices
• Azure experience not required, but nice to have

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that deploy customers' applications to cloud infrastructure while promoting security and cloud computing best practices.
• Use infrastructure as code tools to automate immutable infrastructure
• Manage, configuration, administration, and maintain AWS services
• Provide guidance to Application and Business teams on infrastructure design decisions
• Collaborate and liaise with various technical teams on escalations, development of cloud and managed services
• Drive DevOps team process improvement wit Enterprise IT cloud management capabilities
• Identify opportunities for threat management and critical upgrades
• Utilize enterprise SaaS products to align with business technology needs
• Continuously learn to keep up with industry trends and best practices
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously and can adapt to changing business needs
• Work well with cross functional global and remote teams.