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