Cloud Architect - Not an Active Opening, Building Talent Pipeline

The Mission

We are seeking a talented Cloud Architect to join our growing Managed Service Provider (MSP) team. The right candidate is someone who ....

Your Assignment

Architecture and solutions:

• Evaluate libraries, tools, and services for suitability
• Own the implementation of stories and other engineering of advanced cloud work for clients
• Perform research and documentation for problems and potential solutions
• Use various frameworks and methodologies to fully qualify problems, pain points, and potential jeopardies
• Build on Cloud Native patterns, IoT back-ends, serverless architectures, and highly automated work patterns and delivery methods
• Push the boundary of event-driven architecture
• Hands-on involvement in the development of projects. Enforces standards, procedures, and methodologies for the software development life cycle.
• Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail
• Participate in cross-functional implementation teams to deliver solutions to clients

Observability and Monitoring

• Design, implement, and build scalable architectures leveraging AWS services with an emphasis on reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Build and maintain observability solutions using AWS native (e.g., CloudWatch, X-Ray, Config) and partner tools (e.g. Datadog, Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry) for APM, infrastructure monitoring, logging, and tracing.
• Work with a 24x7 response team and operations leadership group to help
  establish the precise collection of metrics, data and logs needed to properly monitor an application or workload
• Within this observability framework help establish corresponding runbooks and
  automation that can be deployed when certain metrics and conditions (monitoring) are met
• Work with the CloudOps teams in effort to reduce noise and address root causes of issues surfaced
• Partner with DevOps and security teams to ensure the necessary resilience, security, and cost-optimization features are embedded in solutions

General

• Learn, coach, and share knowledge and skills with other team members
• Lead re-platforming and refactoring efforts for existing systems
• Prepare work for team members of varying levels of experience, defining stories and task type work
• Contribute to internal IP and open source development
• Participate in delivery efforts using Agile or other work methodologies
• Build relationships with vendors and partners
• Engage with clients including presentations, technical decisions, and education opportunities
• Learn, research, and stay up to date on best practices and evolutionary capability in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud
• Participate, present, and lead as a technical leader
• Perform code reviews, provide feedback, and pair when beneficial
• Keep an eye out for opportunities to support our clients in even greater ways
• Write cool blog posts, do talks at community events, help us achieve additional certifications in the AWS Partner Community, help our clients solve all sorts of problems
• Occasional travel may be required to meet stakeholders, kick off new projects, attend conferences, and attend company functions.
• Other duties as assigned

Your Qualifications