Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Cloud Infrastructure Architect.

The position requires a skilled leader who can design, implement and maintain highly scalable, reliable and fault-tolerant infrastructure using AWS services.

• Architecture and Design: Develop highly available, resilient and scalable solutions ensuring adherence to best practices in performance, reliability and security.
  • Infrastructure Management: Oversee the maintenance of applications and infrastructure employing advanced techniques to optimize configurations and resource utilization.
    • Collaborative Leadership: Work closely with development and operations teams to define infrastructure requirements provide expert guidance on best practices and drive organizational change and improvements.
      • Process Improvement: Spearhead continuous enhancements in the Change Management process to ensure controlled and efficient deployment of changes.
        • CICD Development: Architect and manage robust CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins improving application deployment and release management processes.
          • Automation of Provisioning: Lead the automation of infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform to ensure consistency and efficiency in deployments.
            • Monitoring Logging and Performance Tuning: Build and manage monitoring tools like CloudWatch Prometheus Grafana or ELK Stack implement robust logging and alerting systems to proactively identify and resolve issues regularly perform performance tuning and resource optimization.
              • Security Compliance: Conduct regular security audits and assessments of systems and the underlying infrastructure to identify vulnerabilities and enforce security best practices.
                • Deployment Management: Own the deployment process create detailed deployment artifacts including Deployment/Installation plans capable of planning for rollbacks.
                  • Knowledge Management: Document and maintain up-to-date records of infrastructure configurations and changes share processes procedures and best practices for knowledge sharing.
                    • Stakeholder Communication: Provide comprehensive status updates effectively communicate project progress and operational metrics to team members and stakeholders.
                      • Cross-Functional Collaboration and Troubleshooting: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance software development and deployment processes ensuring alignment with organizational objectives offer technical support and troubleshooting for AWS-related issues.
                        • Industry Trends: Stay informed about industry trends emerging technologies and best practices in DevOps SRE and cloud environments applying this knowledge to enhance team capabilities.
                        Qualifications:
                        • Experience: 10+ years of progressive experience in AWS cloud computing.
                        • Educational Background: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
                        • Certifications: AWS Certified DevOps Architect is preferred.
                        • AWS Expertise: In-depth knowledge of AWS services including but not limited to EC2 S3 EKS RDS Lambda and CloudFormation.
                        • Database Knowledge: Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases like PostgreSQL.
                        • CI/CD Mastery: Proven experience in architecting and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins GitHub Actions Terraform.
                        • Source Code Management: Advanced understanding of GitHub workflows including branching strategies pull requests and collaboration techniques.
                        • Infrastructure as Code: Extensive hands-on experience with Terraform and Helm for infrastructure provisioning and management.
                        • Containerization Knowledge: Demonstrated experience with containerization technologies Docker and orchestration platforms Kubernetes.
                        • Networking Acumen: Solid understanding of networking concepts including load balancing and security best practices in cloud environments.
                        • Monitoring Tools: Proficiency with monitoring tools such as CloudWatch Prometheus or the Loki Stack capable of setting up comprehensive observability solutions.
                        • Advanced Problem-Solving Skills: Exceptional analytical and troubleshooting abilities with a strong emphasis on proactive problem resolution.
                        • Communication Skills: Strong leadership and communication abilities demonstrating effective collaboration with cross-functional teams and influence over stakeholders.