Cloud Architect - USA
Discovery Partners
Responsibilities:
- Design and document a system in AWS to meet customer needs and requirements
- Driving the implementation of leading practice architecture for assigned clients
- Architecting and building solutions in AWS (e.g., Landing Zones, container platforms, application hosting environments, data storage solutions, etc.) using various AWS services like Control Tower, EKS/ECS, S3, Transit Gateway, EC2, etc
- Conducting cost-benefit and risk-reward analyses
- Designing solutions, development and deployment plans, and high-level solution validation processes for execution by delivery teams
- Meet with a customer or internal team member to troubleshoot, educate, and unblock implementation progress
- Partner with an Engagement Manager to craft a customer communication
- Gather requirements, document current state, and educate customers on your solution approach
- Jump on a pre-sales call to demonstrate Business's expertise and experience to a potential customer
Qualifications and Requirements:
- 5 or more years of continual, prior experience working as a Solution Architect consisting, in parallel, of at least 03 years architecting AWS infrastructure
- 3 or more years building AWS infrastructure, including minimum of 01 year of infrastructure as code experience (Terraform preferred) with 01 year of DevOps toolchain experience (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, AWS Code* Suite)
- AWS Professional certification
- Strong working knowledge of leading AWS cloud security practices
- Proficient in developing Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform / AWS CloudFormation)
- Proficient in coding configuration management tooling (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
- Proficient in at least one or more programming / scripting languages (e.g., Python, Java, Node, etc.)
- Demonstrable knowledge of Agile and Waterfall SDLC methodologies
- Ability to work with multiple clients, in parallel
- Attention to detail
- Exceptional communication and time management