Role: DevOps Solution Architect

Location: Plano, TX (Hybrid)

Duration: 12 Months (Potential to extend)

Job Type: W2 Contract

Working hours: 8 am to 5 pm CST

Interview Process: 2 Rounds

• Interview 1: Video interview via MS Teams for 30 minutes (Panel interview)
• Interview 2: In-person interview for 60 minutes (Panel interview)

What we re looking for:

• 5-10 years' experience in Information Technology, 2-3 years in an Architecture environment.
• Should have achieved mastery in one of the SecDevops practices IaC-Terraform, SONAR, Git-CI Cloud-AWS, CICD-Git/Argo, microservices architecture deployment (primarily Kubernetes) with awareness about site reliability engineering principles, coupled with a willingness to learn and expand the knowledge.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology.
• Experience with source control and continuous integration tools.
• Strong analytical and reasoning skills.
• Good experience with cloud services (AWS), cloud engineering, architecture, and software as a service. Hands-on experience in AWS Services IAM, VPC, EKS, CloudFront, APIGW.
• Ability to work in fast paced teams with quick decision making.
• Scripting experience with Bash/Shell, Python.
• Experience in IaC - Terraform is a must have.
• CI (preferably Gitlab CI) and CD (preferably Argo CD).
• Kubernetes debugging experience.

What you ll be doing:

• Perform as an individual contributor and colleague who enjoys collaborating with, learning from, and mentoring program team members on security disciplines to bolster overall security posture to lower the business risk profile.
• Solve complex problems around connected vehicle technology for mobility and telematics by troubleshoot issues and debug codebases.
• Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of AWS cloud-based production system.
• Adapt new technologies, tools, processes from the organization as needed.
• Communicate well with team members and work collaboratively.
• Maintain and improve existing codebases and peer review code changes.
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS production systems.
• Management of creation, release, and configuration of production systems.
• System troubleshooting and problem resolution across various application domains and platforms.
• Review code and technical approaches for problem solving to ensure functional and non- functional requirements are met in an effective and high-quality manner.
• Provide guidance and mentor technical teams across multiple architecture styles and technologies to ensure high quality design/implementation, re-use of enterprise/common patterns, improve code quality and testability/maintainability by ensuring standard design practices and removing duplication of effort.
• Help ensure high quality software delivery by providing guidance on testing strategy, providing technical consultation to plan/design performance testing and profiling of application, and providing feedback/guidance for tuning performance and other non-functional elements.
• Define and communicate complex technical and operational solutions and translate complex topics into simple business language to drive the value alignment. Preparing technical solution and architecture documents, artifacts, work products and presentations.