Senior AWS Architect/Engineer

Job Description

Please Note :

• Selected candidate must reside within two (2) hours of the client's Headquarters in Woodlawn, MD
• Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site at least 2 days a week.

Position Description :

• Provide engineering and operations support for the AWS CCaaS platform.
• Analyze application and platform and translate functional requirements into technical solutions.
• Provide recommendations to solve technical business problems and identify opportunities and risks.
• Provide cloud architectural, platform optimization consulting expertise to technical leads, cloud engineers, and other systems architects.
• Document and review IT cloud architecture / infrastructure, and technology portfolio.
• Provide recommendations and implementation of cloud technology standards policies and standards.
• Attend all customer technical discussions / design / development meetings and provide technical inputs to further enhance the code quality / process.
• Impact functional strategy by developing new solutions, processes, standards, or operational plans that position customer competitively in the marketplace with best practices.
• All other duties as assigned or directed.

Key Required Skills :

• Systems Admin supporting Middleware
• Enterprise Applications
• Managing complex systems / projects
• Workflow
• Technical knowledge of AWS platform and applications in AWS IaaS, PaaS, SaaS environments
• Understanding Network functions / team collaboration.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications :

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field
• Master's or Doctorate degree may substitute for required experience.
• 7+ years of experience in Ansible, Kubernetes, Containers, GitLab, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence and CloudFormation
• 7+ years in AWS Cloud Services such as VPC, EC2, EKS, ECR, EFS, EBS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFront, SQS, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, Route 53, Cloud Watch and IAM.
• 5+ years of experience practicing AWS Cloud Computing, DevOps, CI / CD, Infrastructure Automation, Configuration Management, and Quality Engineering Expertise.
• Proficiency with integrating AWS applications with inhouse systems e.g., CRM, ServiceNow
• Contact center migration experience from legacy systems to cloud hosted capabilities.
• Experience working in Agile Practices (e.g. SAFE, Scrum)
• Must be able to obtain a public trust clearance.

Required Skills :

• Strong understanding of cloud computing architecture and design principles.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, automation, and deployment strategies.
• Experience with deploying and managing cloud-based solutions in production.
• Solid AWS Services Experience : Connect, EC2, Cloud Formation, VPC, ELB, AWS Security, S3, RDS, EBS, ECS.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools for automation (Ansible).
• Hands-on experience with programming languages (e.g., Python, Ruby or PowerShell).
• Experience with monitoring tools (Nagios, Splunk).

Desired Skills :

• Experience with Lean / Agile development methodologies.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and experience working in a team environment.
• Hands-on and architectural experience with modern Cloud Native architectures.
• Delivery (CI / CD) best practices and use of DevOps to accelerate quality releases to Production.
• Design and build high-quality, scalable, and secure cloud-based solutions on the AWS platform.
• Experience working in a PaaS / SaaS environments, Agile practices and service-oriented environments.
• Self-starter, highly motivated individual who adapts and isn't afraid to volunteer in a dynamic work environment.
• Strong attention to detail with an ability to operate effectively across multiple priorities.
• Adept at working independently, but also in a team environment.
• Demonstrated experience delivering technology solutions in a fast-paced, deadline driven enterprise environment.
• Excellent understanding of change management, testing requirements, techniques, and tools to ensure high availability of systems.
• Prior Federal government experience.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications : Minimum knowledge, skills, abilities needed. Bachelor’s Degree and 7 years of work experience, Master’s Degree and 5 years of work experience, or 11 years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.

Must possess the F5 Certified Technology Specialist or Solutions Expert Level Certification. Seasoned industry professional with 3 -5 years of hands-on server load balancing experience in medium to large enterprise networks.

4 year of experience with network connectivity for physical and virtualized servers. 4 year of Experience installing and configuring network equipment such as routers, switches, firewalls, etc.

4 year of experience with the communication network using TCP / IP protocol. Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical topics to management and non-technical audiences, as well as interface with the customer on a daily basis.

Must be able to obtain a Position of Trust designation Preferred Qualifications : Candidates with these skills will be given preferential consideration.

Passed VMWare Data Center Virtualization or End User Computing examination Passed Cisco CCNP Certification Prior hands on experience with Cisco networks Knowledge of networking protocols such Domain Name Server (DNS), Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Knowledge of IP routing protocols and implementations