Senior AWS Architect

Title: Senior AWS Architect

Description:

Ideally Bachelors from a US University

Heavy Financial Experience

Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant experience

• Must have AWS Professional Certification

• 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.