AWS Architect

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About the Group:

Our group is focused on building and supporting DevOps pipelines for Enterprise Payments systems.

About the Role:

The AWS Architect interfaces with customers and identifies their needs and then works with various departments from network engineers, support and operations, to ensure a plan is in motion to improve the customer's experience. The Architect works to balance various aspects of the project, from safety to design. Additionally, the Architect researches advanced technology regarding best practices in the field and seek to find cost-effective solutions.

This job is responsible for defining an architectural vision and solution aligned to the enterprise architecture strategy, technology, and platform choices. Key responsibilities include describing the solution intent/associated operating environment, evaluating system impacts, determining the primary systems/sub-systems and their interfaces, and assisting with end-to-end solution design. Job expectations include defining non-functional requirements/architectural runway to support new epics/features and ensuring solutions are fit for purpose by working with stakeholders and service providers.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Information Technology professionals within the company to ensure hardware is available for projects and working properly
• Provide detailed specifications for proposed solutions including time and scope involved
• Assist other department engineers in creating practical demonstrations of proposed solutions and demonstrating them to other members of the team
• Establish a framework for necessary contributions from various departments and facilitate their collaboration
• Analyze current technologies used within the company and develop steps and processes to improve
• Document and monitor requirements needed to institute proposed updates in relation to customer experience
• Work alongside project management teams to successfully monitor progress and implementation of initiatives
• Consults with the business and operations to identify and understand challenges and opportunities to improve the use and effectiveness of technology, find creative solutions through knowledge of the domain, practical experiments, and Proof of Concepts, and aligns the solution intent and architectural vision to an evolving backlog of technology change
• Works with product management and other stakeholders to plan and prioritize technology focused backlog items for the architecture runway to enable business epics/features
• Performs design and code reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements for a solution are sufficiently met (for example, security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability)
• Leads rapid shaping of a high level architecture with details filled in with emerging business requirements and ensures architecture is flexible, modular, and designed to adapt easily
• Educates team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions
• Clarifies the architecture and assists with system design for the development teams to support implementation and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments
• Utilizes the defined best practices, templates, and documentation to create architectural designs and suggests improvements to best practices and templates

Primary Skill:

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Secondary Skill:

Terraform

Required Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science, Electronics, Communication, Information Technology or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of experience in cloud engineering or a similar role
• Strong understanding of AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Experience with core AWS services: EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda
• Proficiency with Terraform and infrastructure as code (IaC) principles.
• Knowledge of networking concepts (VPNs, VPCs, subnets, routing)
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools
• Understanding of security best practices in cloud environments
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and container services (ECS, EKS)

Desired Qualifications:

Experience With:

• JAVA Full Stack Development on UNIX & Windows
• Automation on Windows automation (Power Shell, Bladelogic, etc.)
• DEVOPS (Environment Management & Application Releases on Windows)
• App middleware Architecture (IIS/.NET) on Java
• Network architecture
• Hardware architecture

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Architecture
• Result Orientation
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Application Development
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• DevOps Practices

Shift:

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