Position: Systems Architect with AWS/Azure expertise
Company: EPAM
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

DESCRIPTION
Our client operates the largest truckload freight marketplace in North America. Transportation brokers, motor carriers, news organizations and industry analysts rely on its market trends and data insights. Founded in 1978, it is a diversified technology company and constituent of the S&P 500, Fortune 1000, and Russell 1000 indices.

Currently we are searching for a Systems Architect to join our Engineering team. The project team is responsible for delivering customer solutions on multiple platforms that are responsive, scalable, and of the highest quality. We use the Agile development process, and value employees who foster collaboration between team members.

On this role, you will be expected to have strong background in designing and maintaining scalable enterprise systems deployed to AWS.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Monitor existing processes, infrastructure and services, analyze their effectiveness and create strategies to improve productivity and efficiency:
Carry out associated responsibilities for all services delivered by EPAM
Improve monitoring and telemetry (New Relic, Logz.io, Grafana, AWS)
Manage quality assurance programs:
Establish functional tests in production (e.g. New Relic Synthetics)
Design customer service policies, SLAs and OLAs related to the company's products and services
Manage Product Quality reports
Drive automated performance testing and reporting (Cucumber, TestCafe, WebDriver, ReportPortal)
Manage all technical and operational aspects in day-to-day delivery of products with full development lifecycle:
Drive improvements of operations and CI/CD (Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Flux)
Drive improvements of development, utilizing Atlassian stack (including Service Desk and Bitbucket), Stoplight, Mixpanel, Ambassador, Node.js, Koa, Angular
Manage AWS services, including EKS, MSK, Kinesis, Lambda, Elasticsearch, Aurora, DynamoDB, CloudFront, Snowflake Data Warehouse
Supervise and develop training programs for other team members
REQUIREMENTS
7+ years’ experience in hands-on development of solutions of different nature (web applications, web services, desktop applications, native mobile applications) in AWS Cloud
5+ years’ experience in development of relational and non-relational data storages
3+ years' experience in project management and direct customer communication
Strong system administration background
Profound experience in AWS infrastructure and deep familiarity with its feature set
Deep expertise in configuration management systems (preferably Ansible)
Proficiency in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery design
Strong experience with Docker containerization
In-depth practical knowledge of Kubernetes
Experience in Terraform
Experience in AWS server-less stack
Familiarity with logs and monitoring systems
Leadership and communications skills:
Proactive approach and leadership in architecture engagement
Experience in customer site assignments
Excellent general communication skills
Ability to communicate information to customer representatives, listen and manage their concerns
Ability to read context and people
Fluent English level
WE OFFER
Innovative solutions delivery to the world’s digital changes
Experience exchange with colleagues all around the world
Opportunities for self-realization
Friendly team and enjoyable working environment
Engineering, corporate and social events
Social package: professional & soft skills trainings, medical & family care programs, sports
English classes with certified English teachers
Flexible working schedule
Business trips to UK, USA and other EPAM locations
Opportunity to relocate to USA, EU or other EPAM locations
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