AWS Architect

Principle Solution Architect Cloud (AWS)

Responsibilities

• Participate in transformational consulting to assist clients in assessing their on-prem, legacy application/Infrastructure and defining the target state for cloud adoption, technology landscape (architecture), producing the business case and roadmap for migration to Cloud.
• Engineer Cloud Native solutions that can be instantiated with different technologies by applying scientific (or pseudo-scientific) principals in a pragmatic way.
• Create Cloud Solution design for the client that will enable achievement of business strategy and client objectives.
• Advice on the change management strategies and programs that will ensure the migration from current state to desired business state
• Develop best practices, frameworks for cloud adoption.
• Responsible to work as a high performance team side by side with other teams to help Client buildup their cloud environment.

Technical Skills

• Broad based technology knowledge including: cloud computing, applications development, DevOps, relational databases, noSQL databases, data warehousing, MapReduce, analytics, networking, Performance, security, storage, compute, continuous deployment, and management and monitoring.
• Experience executing large scale Application transformation or application migration and modernization projects.
• In-depth hands on experience in either Java or .net is a must, functional reactive programming experience is preferred.
• Deep and broad knowledge in multiple core technologies like messaging, routing, data processing, event streaming, security, system management etc.
• Engineering expertise in building highly performant distributed systems for scalability, security and resiliency.
• Demonstrated competency in leveraging current technologies in the areas of containers, container orchestration and peer-to-peer computing.
• Working experience with PaaS such as Cloud Foundry (PCF/Stakato)/Bluemix or Azure PaaS.
• Excellent working knowledge of Infrastructure-as-a-Service technologies such as OpenStack and public cloud such as either AWS or Azure.
• Experienced DevOps practitioner through work in technology organization that practices the concepts behind the paradigm.
• Working Knowledge of architecture frameworks for Cloud.
• Experience in developing cloud adoption roadmap for large enterprise clients.
• Ability to access enterprise client application portfolio and suggest various cloud migration strategy.
• Experience in architecture design of applications based on Microservices and distributed computing.
• Very strong experience on messaging and RESTFul based applications.
• Experience in Architecture design of cloud native application and understanding of the implications of the 12 factors Apps concept

Experience and Technology

• Graduate in Engineering with 12 to 15 years of experience.
• B.Tech /BE from Tier 1/2 institutes.
• Excellent hands on experience in either Java or.Net technologies.
• Successfully designed and delivered cloud solutions for large enterprises.
• Rich hands on Experience in any Public IaaS (e.g. AWS/ Azure) & Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure ( e.g. VMware/Open stack), PaaS – Cloud Foundry, Azure PaaS.
• Dev/Ops tools exposer/experience – Maven, Anciable, Jenkins, Artifactory, Github etc.
• Integration planform exposure/experience such as Mulesoft, Dell Boomi or others.
• Migration tools exposure such as Recemi, Double Take, Appzero or others.
• Automation tools such as Chef, Puppet or similar.
• Working experience with Software container management like Dockers.
• Experienced in New Platform development and Greenfield cloud projects.
• Experience in working with Client global teams.

Other Skills

• Possess excellent written and spoken communication on English.
• A fast learner and self-starter.
• Must have strong creative and analytical skills as the work entails analyzing problems and designing various working solutions.
• Should have strong leadership skills.
• Ability to logically approach a problem from definition through resolution.
• Ability to define a root cause analysis of an issue and explain causals, contributors and resolutions to clients and other team members.
• Industrial domain expertise in either or the domains - Insurance, Banking, Airline, Manufacturing, Healthcare.

Additional skills desired:

• Java or.net solution architect certification/s
• Dev/Ops Practitioner
• Openstack, AWS, Azure Certification
• Automated testing tools / Continuous Integration
• Scripting ability (Bash / Shell, Python, PERL, Ruby, etc)
• Postgres, Couchbase, or other NoSQL stacks
• Linux
• Docker/Kubernetes
• Consul / Vault
• Salt Stack / Chef / Ansible / Puppet