Resiliency Architect

Principal Responsibilities:

• Understand business goals and drivers and translate those into an appropriate technical solution.

• Gather technical requirements, assess capabilities, and provide and engineer appropriate resilient solution recommendations.

• Design and implement full stack applications that can be used to demonstrate and validate various resiliency and integration patterns.

• Validate and test resiliency solutions in the Cloud, on containers and on premises.

• Focus on continuous improvement practices as required to meet system resiliency imperatives.

• Define high availability and resilience standard and best practices for adopting new and existing technologies for applications across platforms.

• Establish the appropriate monitoring and alerting of solution events related to performance, scalability, availability, and reliability.

• Support for the adoption of Dev Ops methodology and Agile project management.

• Communicates complicated technical concepts effectively to a broad group of stakeholders.

• Provide mentoring, knowledge transfer and assist in training for other team members.

Experience:

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in the design & implementation of distributed applications

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in networking, infrastructure, middleware and database architecture

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in highly available architecture and solution implementation

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience with industry patterns, methodologies, and techniques across the disaster recovery disciplines.

Knowledge and

Skills:

• Ability to be curious, solve problems and engineer solutions that meet resiliency requirements

• Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision.

• Strong knowledge of AWS cloud environment is a plus

• Experience with performance analysis, tuning and engineering is a plus

• Knowledge of monitoring tools (cloud watch, cloud trail, splunk, and other application monitoring.)

• Knowledge of SSL concepts, Authentication and Authorization, AWS Identity Access Management (IAM)

• In-depth, hands-on expertise in Java, SQL, Linux

• Must be comfortable working in an open, highly collaborative team

• Strong troubleshooting skills

• Ability to write scripts (Bash, PHP, Python) for automation of solution resiliency validation and verification.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills along with and ability to communicate at all levels.

• Chaos engineering experience a huge plus.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical discipline or equivalent work experience