Summary of Company:
We are looking for a very talented and experienced individual to work with our company. The work will be entirely remote and it is a long term contract. Please see the Job description and requirements below.
Responsibilities
• Understand customers' overall portfolio; IT and business priorities and success measures to design implementation architectures and solutions (Microsoft and 3rd party solutions)
• Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to create a modernization roadmap. Architect solutions to meet business and IT needs; ensuring technical viability of new projects and successful deployments; while orchestrating key resources and infusing key Infrastructure technologies (e.g. Windows and Linux IaaS; Security; Networking; etc.); and/or Application Development and DevOps technologies (e.g. App Service; containers; server less; cloud-native; etc.) as appropriate
• Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision-makers; who drive long-term cloud adoption within their company to enable them to be cloud advocates
• Be the Voice of the Customer; Share insights and best practices; and connect with Engineering teams to remove key blockers
• Assess the Customers' knowledge of AWS platform and overall cloud readiness to support customers through a structured learning plan and ensure its delivery through partners
• Collaborate with other Cloud Solution Architects in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions on the AWS platform
• Establishing software best practices; designing and analyzing requirements and specifications; developing migration procedures. • Leads in the administration and configuration of AWS DevOps tools
• Design and enable interfaces for AWS DevOps Builds and Release management and enable CI / CD pipeline for applications.
• Mentors and coaches’ other members of the agile team. • Optimizes packages to meet SLA/functional requirements.
• Provides functional and technical expertise on applications and interfaces.
• Drives engagement with Security and Infrastructure teams to ensure the secure deployment of applications.
• Designing complete monitoring solutions and remediation using operations tools including ITSM ticketing platforms
• Assists product owners in systems analysis and creation of documentation for all business processes.
• Participate in technical design meetings with Enterprise and application architects
• Must have a strong understanding of application architecture; common failure modes and the development process
• Must have a strong understanding of 24x7 application operations; including Incident Management; Change Management; and Capacity Management
• Works within the SAFe Agile framework. Participate in sprint planning
. • Conduct daily scrum; technical clinic’s and other governance ceremonies with DevOps team
• Assists in production support and maintenance of applications as needed.
• Develop documentation
Experience:
Must have
• 7+ years of experience with at least 2+ years of AWS DevOps
• Good understanding of AWS Infrastructure services and their limitations
• Experience working on/with micro services architectures; web services; ReST APIs & API Gateways; • Have experience building and deploying as containers on a cloud platform using an automated CI / CD pipeline.
• Experience in configuring & monitoring different attributes and handling scale up and scale down scenarios for the application in AWS
• Application monitoring through operations insights; application insights
• Provide best practices around provisioning production and non-production environments on AWS to optimize the usage
• Have good understanding in the implementation of advanced security; authentication and single sign-on across cloud and on-premise
• Strong understanding of the advantages and limitations of various AWS services
• Provide best practices around provisioning production and non-production environments on AWS to optimize the usage
• Have good understanding in the implementation of advanced security; authentication and single sign-on across cloud and on-premise
• Have implemented a Dev Ops model on AWS
• Have evaluated products/technology & created IT Roadmap for adoption
• Have adopted end to end automation
• At least 3+ years of experience working in an Agile team Added advantage
• Good if the candidate is from an application development background who has expertise in building large scale web applications before the cloud experience.
• Good to have knowledge of common and industry standard cloud-native/cloud-friendly authentication mechanisms (OAuth; OpenID; etc)
• Experience with deployment orchestration; automation; and security configuration management preferred
• Experience with service-oriented architecture for cloud-based services.
Qualifications:
• Bachelors degree or equivalent in Computer Science; Engineering or a related field; or additional comparable experience
• Proven experience in IT; application development or DevOps; including excellent knowledge of networking; computing and storage
• Industry certifications in DevOps will be a big plus
• Certifications in AWS will be a big plus