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- US - Austin, Portland, San Jose or Chicago
- Responsible for maintaining the AWS Platform architecture supporting AWS Governance and product/application adoption
- Design/Development of governance solutions (managing security, cost optimization and tech debt)
- Develop/maintain/implement cloud platform standards (IAM, tagging, security controls,
- Support product development teams and infrastructure teams in the implementation of governance solutions (security, cost optimization, etc.)
- Maintain minimum application deployment standards (governance, cost management and tech deb perspective). Work with infrastructure technical leads to develop and maintain domain standards (database, networking, compute, security, messaging, etc.)
- Work with Security to define security requirements, design and implement solutions (ex Cloud Custodian, etc.) to support overall security of the CDK AWS environment.
- Work with Infrastructure engineering teams to ensure standards and reference solutions are develop with respect to the domain areas (Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, etc.)
- Analyzing complex business and software requirements leading to the selection and implementation of appropriate technical public cloud solutions (ex Secrets Management, Messaging, etc.).
- Ensuring the software and development requirements align to the defined public cloud infrastructure service standards
- Ensure architecture, process, standards and best practice documentation is current
- Optimizing and tuning designs based on performance and root cause analysis
- Analysis of existing solutions alignment to infrastructure standards and providing feedback to both evolve and mature the solution.
- Utilizing your experience and skillset to influence and guide the Infrastructure Services Roadmap
- During cloud operational issues, assist procuct and operational teams to identify root cause and recommend remediation activities.
- This is a hands-on role where the candidate is expected to take on technical tasks where in depth knowledge on usage and architectural best practices of AWS/public cloud technologies is important:
- EKS, RDS, Load Balancing (ALB/ELB) , EC2, Lambda . EBS, S3 , Service Control Policies (SCP) , VPC and Availability Zone architectures , AWS Identity and Access Management and experience with using scripoting (ex Python) to manage AWS environments.
- Broad understanding/experience across full stack infrastructure technologies will be required. Looking for candidates with experience in at least 4 of the following areas and willingness to learn the other areas.
- Database solutions (SQL/NoSQL)
- Containerization Solutions (Docker, Kubernetes)
- DevOps processes and tooling
- Hypervisor (VMware) and Virtualization technologies
- Message queuing, data streaming and caching solutions
- Micro-service architecture
- Networking principles and concepts
- Disaster Recovery solutions
- Development and Implementation of AWS Cost Optimization solutions (rightsizing, storage optimization, etc.)
- Experience of working within an Infrastructure team utilizing Private/Public/Hybrid cloud models
- In depth knowledge of server based operating systems (Windows/Linux) and Web Services (IIS, Apache)
- Strong analytical and presentation/communication skills
- Experience of designing, optimizing and troubleshooting public cloud platforms associated with large, complex application stacks
- Have clear and concise communication and be comfortable working with at all levels in the organization
- Years of Experience:
- 7 yrs+ working in an IT related roles managing cloud platforms (public or private).
- 3-5 yrs working in a AWS public cloud environment as a Platform Engineer managing security, cost optimization, tech debt and AWS services.
- 2-3 years scripting experience, preferred Python
- AWS Solution Architect certification (associate or professional) along with hands on experience of designing and managing AWS cloud solutions.