AWS Cloud Architect

Title: AWS Cloud Architect

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Architect to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in cloud architecture, with expertise in designing and implementing scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions on the AWS platform. This role will involve collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and architecting solutions that meet the needs of our customers.

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 with 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.

Important Pointer:

• Candidate should be from Application Development background like Dot, Java or any other programming language etc.
• Recent at least 8-10+ years from Infrastructure background.
• Expert in DevOps like Terraform, Docker, Container etc / SRE.
• Expert in AWS like AWS VPC Networking, AWS Control Panel, Landing Zone etc
• He should be able to migrate on prem infrastructure services to AWS.
• He should be able to create various automation template for reusability using tech stack like Terraform, Cloudformation, Bash, Powershell etc
• He should be an expert on understanding various AWS storage services and there use cases.

Qualifications:

• 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 incidents and delivering projects.
• Knowledge of SDLC and CI/CD best practices
• Azure experience not required, but nice to have.