Application Architect III

Application Architect III – Chandler, AZ (Hybrid)

Contract Duration: 12 months contract role

• Write public cloud infrastructure as code automation using tools such as Terraform
• Design and develop public cloud landing zones automation to build core cloud foundational platform services
• Develop cloud services provisioning automation with integrated capabilities of IAM, network, security policies as code, and observability
• Implement built-in resiliency, observability, and enable Fin Ops as a part of infrastructure automation to enable data PaaS services
• Develop and maintain cloud services catalog for app developers and devops teams
• Develop CI/CD pipelines to build the cloud data analytics platform
• Collaborate with technical product management and operations, to deliver the engineering roadmap in Agile model
• Partner with Information Security teams to engineer secure app patterns into Cloud platforms
• Assist in translating business requirements into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks for deployment in compliance with architecture standards and policies
• Assist technical Analysts and Infrastructure Engineers by ensuring that technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards.
• Promote an inclusive and healthy working environment and help to resolve organizational impediments/blockers

• Significant experience writing Hashicorp Terraform configurations and modules.
• Experience in Dev Ops models with infra-as-code, config-as-code, policy-as-code, etc.
• Proficient in translating designs into fully developed Terraform code.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure Cloud, preferred certification. AWS and GCP desirable.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking concepts, subnets, routing, load balancing, firewalls, and cloud security.
• Experience in enterprise-scale environments, building highly available IaaS and PaaS solutions
• Understanding of landing zones, cloud-native security, monitoring and logging tools, and Well-Architected Framework principals.
• Understanding of Azure data analytics technologies including Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Databricks, Microsoft Purview and Power BI.
• Experience in programming and infra-automation tools – Terraform, Ansible, Java, Python, etc.
• Experience in Cloud logging, monitoring, and observability tools
• Proficient in at least one scripting language (i.e. Bash, Python).
• Strong analytical, problem solving and organizational skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent collaboration skills and ability to work in a global team
• Minimum of a 4-year degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
• Minimum 3+ years of Cloud Automation Engineer working experience
• Experience in financial services industry
• Experience on Technology and Infrastructure Teams
• Experience in Linux/UNIX system administration

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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many…