Senior AWS ArchitectEngineer

• Selected candidate must reside within two (2) hours of the clients Headquarters in Woodlawn MD
  
• Selected candidate must be willing to work onsite at least 2 days a week.
  

• 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.
  

• 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

• Masters 10 years of experience OR Bachelors 12 years of experience OR 18 years of related experience in lieu of a degree.
  
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Mathematics Engineering or a related field
  
• Masters 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.
  

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

• Experience with Lean/Agile development methodologies.
  
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and experience working in a team environment.
  
• Handson 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 highquality scalable and secure cloudbased solutions on the AWS platform.
  
• Experience working in a PaaS/SaaS environments Agile practices and serviceoriented environments.
  
• Selfstarter highly motivated individual who adapts and isnt 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 fastpaced deadline driven enterprise environment.
  
• Excellent understanding of change management testing requirements techniques and tools to ensure high availability of systems.
  
• Prior Federal government experience.