AWS Architect

Client is seeking a senior AWS technologist with extensive experience in AWS Cloud. This role will focus on researching and identifying AWS service resiliency characteristics and failure modes, designing experimentation to validate its resiliency behavior, surfacing any potential weakness/issues, working with AWS engineers in clarifying and engineering to resolve those weakness/issues, and working with clients engineers to solution for the required level of resiliency.

The role will require that the individual be familiar with current and emerging cloud technologies, tools and system architectures. The role requires an individual who can work closely with application developers, architects and infrastructure engineers to deliver resilient solutions in a team-oriented environment. The expectation is that this candidate will work with other principal technologists in the organization to develop a resiliency model for supporting our applications’ business and technical requirements as we establish a significant presence within the Cloud landscape.

This role is considered part of the Business Unit Senior Leadership team and may mentor delivery team members.

• Lead and implement analytical data lakes and accepted best practices in AWS.
• Intimate knowledge of all phases of AWS infrastructure and concepts such as VPC, subnets, security groups, S3 object stores, RDS, EC2, Glacier, Lambda, IAM, enterprise security, data security, encryption, Dev Ops, replication and disaster recovery.
• Deep experience with security in cloud environments around HIPAA, PHI/PII data, data encryption at rest and in transit as well as security concepts like tokens, federated security models and secrets management.
• Support development of a highly scalable and extensible Big Data platform on cloud which enables collection, storage, modeling, and analysis of massive data sets from numerous channels with an emphasis on proper security and data governance best practices.
• Familiarity with Dev Ops and CI/CD as well as Agile tools and processes including Git, Jenkins, Jira and Confluence.
• Provide support to Data Engineering teams on deployment of Hadoop/Spark jobs, work with IT Operations and Information Security teams on monitoring and troubleshooting of incidents to maintain service levels and coordinate with Vendor teams on installation, bug fixes, upgrades and escalations.
• Benchmark systems and analyze system bottlenecks in a hybrid environment and propose solutions to eliminate them.
• Research and provide recommendations on automating administration tasks and contribute to the evolving systems architecture to meet changing requirements for scaling, reliability, performance and manageability.
• Provide mentoring, knowledge transfer and assist in training for other team members.
• Understand business goals and drivers and translate those into an appropriate technical solution.
• Identify explicit/implicit technical assumptions and devise corresponding experimentation to validate the key resiliency assumptions.
• Participate in the definition of high availability and resilience standards and best practices for services from AWS and other internal/external providers.
• Participate in the assessment of service readiness for tiered business applications and service adoption.
• Participate in the establishment of appropriate monitoring and alerting of service events related to performance, scalability, availability, and reliability.
• Contribute to cloud strategy discussions and decisions on overall Cloud design and best approach for implementing cloud solutions.
• Focus on continuous improvement practices as required to meet system resiliency imperatives.
• Act as a liaison with other architects (security, infrastructure, data, etc.) and with delivery teams working primarily within an Agile (Scrum) methodology.
• Establish relationships with IT leaders, architects, and technical specialists in advancing proposed resiliency solutions.
• Support for the adoption of Dev Ops methodology and Agile project management.
• Communicate complicated technical concepts effectively to a broad group of stakeholders.
• Engage with Technical Architects and technical staff to…