Do you enjoy leading, guiding, and influencing customers and team members throughout the DevOps journey? As an AWS DevOps Architect, you will have the opportunity to work on some of the worlds most complex challenges. You will apply your deep technical expertise to solve cloud-based solutions at scale. You will lead customers through transforming their business with the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that deliver end-to-end applications and infrastructure solutions.

The Senior DevOps Architect is a leader with extensive automation and programming experience throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC), servicing multiple teams or organizations. A successful DevOps Architect has technical depth across the full DevOps spectrum along with leading and evangelizing transformations, and driving innovation. Our DevOps architects collaborate with partner and client teams to deliver proof-of-concept projects, conduct workshops, and lead implementation projects. These professional services engagements will focus on customer solutions built with CloudFormation, API Gateway, Lambda, ECS, SQS, CloudWatch, Kinesis, and others.

Responsibilities

• As a Senior DevOps Architect, you will advise customers on their DevOps journey, manage projects independently and also deliver as part of larger teams.
• Work with customers and partners internalizing their context while using your business and technical skills to design solutions based on requirements and constraints.
• Work towards customer business outcomes, ensuring there is a strong connection between delivery activities and business objectives.
• Own and complete key tasks and deliverables, and collaborate with others to define and implement optimal, complete solutions based on stakeholders needs.
• Guide customers technical and investments, maximizing alignment with the platform, and ease of adoption as new services and products become available.
• Design and deliver solutions that solve for new levels of complexity, scale and performance, and in turn, enable breakthrough innovations. Create and apply frameworks, methods, best practices and artifacts that deliver prescriptive guidance to customers, and publish and present them in large forums and across various media platforms.
• Experience with seamless/automated build scripts used for release management across all environments.
• This is a customer-facing role. You will be required to travel to client locations and deliver professional services around 60-80% of the time.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 15+ years as a technical DevOps specialist in customer-facing roles.
  • Ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges in an environment.
  • Strong hands-on experience with mainline programming and scripting languages such as Shell, Python, Ruby, Perl, Java, .Net, or C++.
  • Hands-on experience with architecting and automated provisioning (IaC), configuration management for infrastructure and applications.
  • Hands-on experience with Containers and Containers orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
  • Hands-on experience with building and managing release systems, code merging and promotion, and CI/CD workflows and tools.
  • Proven experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies.
  • Bachelors degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field.
  • Ability to travel/ commute to client locations to deliver professional services as needed.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years experience in a DevOps Architect role or similar
  • Experience in setting up SRE practices
  • Experience with CloudFormation, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible in production environments
  • Knowledge of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing and firewalls.
  • Experience with monitoring and log aggregating frameworks like CloudWatch, Datadog, Splunk, Opentracing, X-Ray, and APM tools.
  • Experience with revision control source code repositories (Git, SVN, Mercurial, Perforce).
  • Management of continuous servers like Jenkins, Bamboo and TeamCity.
  • Experience with development and automated testing.
  • Understanding of microservices and distributed
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate core concepts (CI/CD, Agile & Automation) across internal and external stakeholders.