W2 Requirement!

Looking for AWS Cloud Architect

Location: San Antonio, Texas

Experience: 12+ years

Visa: Except OPT, any visa is fine

What you will do :

• Participate/lead in producing conceptual, solution and component-level architectures and associated artifacts.

• Develop cross domain business requirements reference architecture for transition and target state and contribute to the cloud related patterns and implementations.

• Identify, create and socialize developer guides to explain technology best practices, how to and do's and don't

• Identify, create and socialize standards and specifications of existing and new technology and drive their adoptions by domains across the organization.

• Identify the need for common components for shared business capabilities, develop the strategy including architecture and drive their development and adoption discussion with leadership team.

• Develop and lead developer community of practices to facilitate discussions on technical topics.

What you will have :

• Hands on experience with AWS cloud networking including VPCs, Subnets, Security Groups, ACLs, Transit Gateways, ALB/NLB, Route53, ACM, API Gateway and related technologies

• Understanding of networking processing, protocols, and standards - TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, HTTP

• Hands on experience with security mechanisms including mTLS, x509, OpenID Connect, JWT/JWE, OAuth2, PEP/PDP, SAML, WS-Security, Basic Auth and ABAC/RBAC based policies

• Hands on "code first" development of cloud configuration and components from the ground up using tools like Gitlab and Terraform

• Strong hands-on experience in one or more development languages including Java, python, Golang

• Experience with Open Trace, AWS Cloud Watch, DataDog, Prometheus, ELK, Grafana, Hystrix,, App Dynamics, NetCool and other tools to ensure the cloud is operating as expected

• Experience with continuous delivery (CD) tooling including Jenkins, GitLab, Travis CI, GoCD and others.

• Experience with Containers including tools like Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/ECR, and other related technologies and tools

• Demonstrated experience in explaining complex technology decisions to both technical and nontechnical audiences at all levels in the organization.

• Demonstrated experience effectively communicating and developing high trust relationships with frontline and second level management and stakeholders.

• Ability to develop target state architecture using services offered by AWS and private cloud and vision to develop the transition architecture.

• Ability to design patterns for moving legacy applications to AWS and private cloud.

• Hand on experience with common architecture patterns (microservices, event-driven, REST, NO SQL databases, Caches, etc.) and services offered by AWS (S3, EKS, RDS, elastic search, etc.)

• Experience addressing operational and non-functional concerns (e.g. scalability, performance, maintainability, load distribution, resilience and recovery, etc.)

• Experience with SAFe framework or other similar agile frameworks.

• Experience with Java, Kafka, Spring, Redis, Kubernetes, OpenShift and others.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Provides technical leadership and architectural direction for all the in-scope cloud services deployed in AWS Cloud

• Participate in the design, build and deployment of a new platform including service request, provisioning process, configuration, monitoring definition, backup and recovery strategy, and security

• Work closely with developers and product owners to adopt architectural changes adapt to the emerging cloud requirements and technologies.

o Manage architecture and solution dependencies within the assignment

• Articulate platform functional and non-functional requirements to support development services

Must have Experience

• Broad experience in network and/or infrastructure architecture and solutioning, including knowledge of Cloud offerings and virtualization technologies

• Strong experience in architecting, designing, developing highly reliable, fault tolerant and performant cloud-based services

• Strong experience in Docker, Kubertnetes, Kubernetes CRDs, Kubernetes RBAC

• Strong knowledge of cloud monitoring and alerting tools like (Dynatrace, Prometheus, Cloudwatch, Grafana, New Relic, Sendgrid)

• Strong experience on the application diagnosability with tools like ELK/EFK

• Strong experience with infrastructure and platform sizing, infrastructure cost reduction

• Exposure to DR strategies followed while building highly available applications

• Strong experience in working on projects distributed across multiple geographies

Skills and Experience

We are seeking experience with the following technologies/domains:

• Prior experience in developing and architecting cloud services across diverse technology stack on C++/Node.js/Java preferably Multi-tenant SaaS/PaaS Services using microservices architecture on any of the cloud environments AWS/Azure/Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

• Must be familiar with containers technologies like: Docker Containers, Kubernetes and ideally have developed on any of the full stack technology stack. Exposure to JQuery, AngularJS, KnockoutJS, Bootstraps would be great to have.

• Proven ability to develop and ship high quality software products in Agile development environments.

• Must have used and developed Site Reliability Practices using popular Cloud Monitoring and logging framework.

o Should have high emotional quotient, self-driven and shows technology leadership in complex and ambiguous situations.

• Good to have experience in a in multi cloud environment (AWS, Azure, OCI)

If interested, share your resume to or reach me at +1(972) 636-5083.