What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior AWS Architect Engineer position at JPC Partners?
JPC Partners is looking for a Senior AWS Architect Engineer that will:
*** Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site at least 2 days a week
Required Skills:
- Provide engineering and operations support for the AWS Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) platform
- Analyze application and platform and translate functional requirements into technical solutions
- Provide recommendations to solve technical business problems and identify opportunities and risks
- Provide cloud architectural, platform optimization consulting expertise to technical leads, cloud engineers, and other systems architects
- Document and review IT cloud architecture/infrastructure, and technology portfolio
- Provide recommendations and implementation of cloud technology standards policies and standards
- Attend all customer technical discussions/design/development meetings and provide technical inputs to further enhance the code quality/process
- Impact functional strategy by developing new solutions, processes, standards, or operational plans that position customer competitively in the marketplace with best practices
- 7 years of experience in Ansible, Kubernetes, Containers, GitLab, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence and CloudFormation
- 7 years in AWS Cloud Services such as VPC, EC2, EKS, ECR, EFS, EBS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFront, SQS, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, Route 53, Cloud Watch and IAM
- 5 years of experience practicing AWS Cloud Computing, DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure Automation, Configuration Management, and Quality Engineering Expertise
- Proficiency with integrating AWS applications with inhouse systems e.g., CRM, ServiceNow
- Contact Center Migration experience from legacy systems to cloud hosted capabilities
- Experience working in Agile Practices (e.g. SAFE, Scrum)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field
- Master's or Doctorate degree may substitute for required experience
*** Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site at least 2 days a week
Required Skills:
- Strong understanding of cloud computing architecture and design principles
- Experience with infrastructure as code, automation, and deployment strategies
- Experience with deploying and managing cloud-based solutions in production
- Solid AWS Services Experience: Connect, EC2, Cloud Formation, VPC, ELB, AWS Security, S3, RDS, EBS, ECS
- Extensive hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools for automation (Ansible)
- Hands-on experience with programming languages (e.g., Python, Ruby or PowerShell)
- Experience with monitoring tools (Nagios, Splunk)
- Experience with Lean / Agile development methodologies
- Excellent oral and written communication skills and experience working in a team environment
- Hands-on and architectural experience with modern Cloud Native architectures
- Delivery (CI/CD) best practices and use of DevOps to accelerate quality releases to Production
- Design and build high-quality, scalable, and secure cloud-based solutions on the AWS platform
- Experience working in a PaaS / SaaS environments, Agile practices and service-oriented environments
- Self-starter, highly motivated individual who adapts and isn't afraid to volunteer in a dynamic work environment
- Strong attention to detail with an ability to operate effectively across multiple priorities.
- Adept at working independently, but also in a team environment
- Demonstrated experience delivering technology solutions in a fast-paced, deadline driven enterprise environment
- Excellent understanding of change management, testing requirements, techniques, and tools to ensure high availability of systems
- Prior Federal government experience
