AWS Cloud Architect - FinOps

Title: AWS Cloud Architect - FinOps

Type: Contract to Hire - Contract Until Year End

Location: Greenwood Village, CO - Hybrid, 4 days onsite

No Visa Sponsorship or C2C Available

Required Qualifications:

DevOps experience

Hands-on AWS experience

Strong FinOps experience

Python

Terraform and/or CloudFormation

ETL/data experience

Bonus Skills:

Ansible

Responsibilities:

This team is “FinOps” for the AWS infrastructure across the enterprise, advising on architecture, cost optimization, and building out automation and tooling

Solution AWS hardening and security, and evolving network architecture, design, and infrastructure

Produce architecture blueprints that guide the development and implementation of Cloud solutions across multiple products, providing direction to technical teams during project delivery and ensuring implementations support technology and product roadmaps.

The Cloud Solutions Architect provides their expertise in the development and maintenance of architecture standards and solutions that align with strategic goals and partner with product managers, business analysts, designers, and software engineers to navigate solution decisions.

Responsible for creating solutions and presenting compelling recommendations to customers.

Define operational procedures and practices

Automate data pipelines

Define KPIs and set up appropriate health-checks, monitoring and escalation procedures

Accelerate development for roadmap features, to address specific customer requirements

Identify ongoing risks and pain points throughout the project, develop and implement mitigation measures.

Improve internal processes, and promote knowledge sharing in the team, by contributing to the knowledge base, blogs, and brown bag lunches.

Capture project lessons and convert them into architectural best practices applicable to the broader install base; mentor and coach the internal team through internal training sessions.

Work closely with Product Management and Engineering to review customer requirements and feedback, and identify opportunities for platform enhancements Skills and Knowledge:

Knowledge of enterprise cloud solutions, deploying and running solutions in a cloud environment, and private, public, and hybrid clouds

Extensive experience with Internet technologies and protocols like TCP/IP, VPN, SSL and HTTP

Hands-on experience with public and private cloud services (AWS, Openstack, VMWare, ect) as well as load balancers and networking devices

Experience designing high availability and disaster recovery / fail-over infrastructures

Development experience with database or application integration technology

Deep knowledge of Linux fundamentals

Knowledge of Open Source architectures and/or past contributions to open source projects

Design, development and operations experience with highly-available, scalable, and fault tolerant systems

Experience with agile/scrum methodologies

This is a hybrid position in Greenwood Village, CO that can pay between $70-$80/hr. Exact compensation will vary based on several factors, including skills, experience, and education. Benefits are available on day one of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching.