Sr AWS Cloud Architect

SR AWS Cloud Architect

Hybrid - Miami, FL (3 days onsite per week)

Contract - potential to hire

No sponsorship available for this role; must be able to work for any US employer

As a AWS Cloud Solution Architect, you will take the business and IT requirements and translate those to a solution design. You will help build trusted solutions that can provide a great user experience that keeps company safe. Your experience creating business solutions utilizing existing technology, purchased technology, or newly created technology will help you quickly interpret requirements and determine the reuse/buy/build decision. You will design the integrations between existing and new systems to provide a seamless user experience across AWS, with consideration for the security.

This position Cloud Architect is hybrid 3 days onsite in Miami, an on-call rotation will be required. An ideal candidate will have 7 or more years of experience creating cloud solution designs in AWS, ( Azure experience is also a PLUS) and experience designing solutions with segmentation between the presentation and business logic layers. As we continue to develop our multi-cloud strategy, you will be providing valuable input on strategy, reference architecture, and automation to ensure solutions are based off best practices and account for security objectives.

POSITION SUMMARY

This position includes influencing the vision and strategy of IT, and the company. This is a thought leader who stays up on the latest technology trends, understands the market changes, and our business needs – then works with Sr. leadership and the IT Principles to develop and drive the direction. Contributes to the enterprise architecture strategy & planning for the company.

CORE FUNCTIONS

1. Relentless focus on delivering outcomes and value to our business. In collaboration with a team of architects, partners with IT and our Business to develop architectures in support of strategic initiatives, goals, and industry trends.

2. Analyzes Business and IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and\or redundancies and recommend solutions for improvement. Architects must document current state architecture, integrate new solutions into existing systems and deploy experimental solutions that meet emerging business needs.

3. Establishes, reviews, documents, maintains, and publishes functional technology standards and architecture principles for enterprise consumption. Creates solution patterns in focused technology domains. Ensures consistent adherence to standards for architectural artifact documentation and implementation. Develops and maintains domain specific capability documentation.

4. Serves as a credible expert advisor to peers and senior and executive leadership on the appropriateness of current and future technologies based on the highest level of Total Cost of Ownership, Return on Investment, and strategic value to our business.

5. Develops and fosters relationships with business stakeholders, vendor partners, and information technology management. Acts as advisor and mentor to others and maintains in-depth knowledge of business strategies, initiatives, and goals as well as industry trends, regulatory requirements, and cybersecurity threats. Advises functional leaders and executives making strategic investments in applications, databases, technologies, systems, technical services, or processes as a result of architectural development and cybersecurity risk assessments.

6. Visualize and plan for outcomes in the future and sustain work in achieving the outcomes. Defines roadmaps and transition architectures to bridge the gap from current to future state for business, information, and technology capabilities.

7. Utilizes exceptional communication skills verbally, in writing, and presenting with all levels of employees and management, capable of successful formal and informal communication. Ability to speak and write clearly and understandably at the all levels of the organization including executive leadership. This position requires impeccable communication skills that bridge gaps between technical groups and business leaders.

8. Supports and promotes architecture governance and ensures architectures are aligned to business priority, comply with reference architecture standards, policy and regulatory requirements.

9. Performs all functions according to established policies, procedures, regulatory and accreditation requirements, as well as applicable professional standards.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE (AWS is only requirements – all Azure related mentioned below is a plus)

AWS Infrastructure setup

Design and configure AWS Networks/Subnets, Connectivity to On-prem, Firewall/DNS/Load balancer (Layer7/Layer 4)

Integration with On-prem Active Directory or Azure AD

Azure Web Apps, Logic Apps, Azure SaaS services

AWS/Azure Transit Gateway

Troubleshoot Multi Cloud issues

Azure VDI/AWS Workspaces

Migration into AWS

Work through Cloud Support tickets

Provide guidance/solutions to business units

Monitor Cloud environment and enforce security and governance

Create Application Road Maps

Terraform/CloudFormation

AWS Tagging Policy and Service Control Policies

Work with IT and business leaders to explain the benefits of design and architecture transformations

Implement automated failovers, redundant/HA systems and DR/BC

Strong understanding of network concepts is required (DHCP, DNS, VLANS, etc)

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Requires Master’s degree or equivalent of education and work experience totaling eight or more years in a related field.

At least one or both of the certificates below:

AWS Professional level certification (Solutions Architect).

AWS Certified Engineer with verifiable Architect level skill set.