Golang Job: Sr. AWS Architect

Title: Sr. AWS Architect

Location : Toronto, Canada

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Understand customer's IT estate, LOB applications, IT and business priorities and success measures to design implementation architectures and cloud native solutions.

• Collaborate with network, security, and application architects and SMEs to develop enterprise grade solutions.

• Leading the development of AWS architecture patterns, blueprints and standards

• Solutions architecture design for AWS platform services & monitoring framework using architectural design principles based on customer requirements

• Reviewing implementation of platform services to ensure alignment against design AWS well architected framework

• Develop innovative solutions to complex business and technology problems.

• Draft technical solution for migration, multi account multi region deployments, modern architecture, AWS Landing zone, control tower.

• Keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights and maintain technical skills and knowledge.

• Draft hybrid connectivity and networking landscape for the clients on boarding to AWS.

• Work with clients to transform manual processes and deployments into DevOps automated pipelines using AWS native services.

• Advocate new features and solutions to bring operational efficiency and cost reduction.

• Drive architectural decisions from Infrastructure as code (IaC) and automation lens.

• Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision makers.

• Define long term cloud strategy and enhancement roadmap.

• Develop test plan and test cases to demonstrate application/database readiness post migration or greenfield deployment.

• Work closely with application teams to ensure business functionality and SLAs are met.

• Consult for optimal design of environments, analysing complex distributed production deployments, and making recommendations to optimize performance.

• Act as a subject-matter expert on AWS and assist Sales/Pre-Sales in RFP activities.

Mandatory Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Science / Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, MCA or a related field.

• Subject matter level expertise on AWS Network & Security, AWS Compute (EC2) & Storage, Backup & DR, Monitoring, AWS Governance & Cost Management, Migration, DevOps.

• Rich experience in Migration projects and good knowledge of migration tools (native and third party) like CloudEndure, MGN.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.

• Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Jenkinsetc.,)

• Configuration management using Ansible and/or Chef/Puppet, Shell, PowerShell.

• Implementing experience with primary AWS services (EC2, ELB, ECS, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, Route53 & S3)

• Deep hands-on experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale.

• Develop test plan and test cases to demonstrate application/database readiness post migration.

• Work closely with application teams to ensure business functionality and SLAs are met.

• Demonstrable experience working with Kubernetes and Docker administration (EKS and ECS).

• Good architectural knowledge to design, build AWS Cloud Native solutions and integrating 3rd party tools required for customer delivery/ Cloud estate.

• Experience in PaaS services like RDS, Lambda, API gateway, Redshift, Glue etc.

• Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior IT executives and growing data services in large or highly strategic accounts.

• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.

• Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively.

• Resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills.

• Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences (Senior Executives, IT management and developers)

Desired Skills:

• Min. 6 years demonstrable experience working with AWS in an architecture capacity

• Min. 4 years experience working as a Lead DevOps engineer or an AWS Solutions Architect

• Expertise in containerization – Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience in IaC tools – Terraform and Ansible etc.,

• Experience of developing Solutions architecture designs in tools such as MS Visio, Draw.io etc.

• Experience of building and implementing enterprise-wide architecture principles, framework, standards, blueprints and patterns

• Proficiency in any development language like Python, Golang or Ruby

• Demonstrable experience of facilitating solution design workshops

• Deep understanding of DevOps concepts (Agile, CI/CD and Automation)

• CloudFormation deep expertise (cfn hup, cfn init, custom resources, stack sets etc.)

• Strong hands-on experience on CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, Team city etc.

• Experience in working with AWS CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline

• Data analysis pipelines knowledge (Glue, EMR, Redshift, DMS, Kinesis) etc.

Certifications:

• Must have - AWS Certified Solution Architect-Professional Level

• Must have - AWS Specialty Certification - Networking or Security (Either 1 will do)

• Good to have - AWS Certified DevOps Professional

• Good to have - AWS Certified developer/Architect/Sysops associate

• Good to have - Certified Kubernetes Administrator

• Nice to have - Enterprise architecture qualifications (e.g. TOGAF, ZachMann)

Nice to have - HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: Up to $140,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Evening shift