Position: AWS Cloud DevOps Architect
Company: SoftServe
Experience required: 5y
Category: DevOps
English level: upper
Published: 2022-11-01T00:00:00+02:00

**WE ARE**
The primary driving force behind SoftServe’s s Cloud & DevOps Technology Capabilities and Partnerships. Our Cloud & DevOps team is more than 100 people. We take full ownership and leadership in implementation projects to ensure the quality of the results we deliver to our clients. And with Support and SRE part of our group, we provide the end-to-end customer experience and high satisfaction in the post-implementation phase. We focus on our client’s success and not afraid to step into the challenge.
We have developed a customer-trusted relationship and a strong partnership with Amazon Web Services, VMware, Red Hat, and HashiCorp. Being a part of the international community, we participate at major worldwide events (AWS re:Invent, AWS Summits, AWS DevDays, and more) and develop multiple AWS User Groups and communities.
Experts in our teamwork as architects and technology consultants for different clients, not tied to specific projects, technologies, timelines. We drive the design/discovery or assessment of cloud architectures of any size and complexity performed by one or a team of architects acting as a technology decision making. We work directly with AWS and a variety of clients – from tech Startups to Forbes 500 Companies.

**YOU ARE**
A person who drives the application/data/infrastructure delivery process design or performs long-term architectural project support acting as a primary technical contact point decision-maker for the engineering team.

You show professional experience in
• Participation in architectural service executions such as Discovery, Assessment, and Architectural Project Support
• Leading engineering teams to implement the solution guided by the defined architecture vision
• Talking to the business to understand business and technical requirements for the project. Communicate technical constraints and decisions to the business
• Elaboration of system quality attributes such as performance, scalability, availability, fault-tolerance, security, deployment, maintainability, and others
• Translating customers’ business, functional, and non-functional requirements into high-quality solution design visions and operations plans consistent with enterprise architectural standards using Attribute Driven Design
• Defining application/data/infrastructure delivery strategies, standards, processes, technologies, and tools in the technical visions.
• Driving or assisting in project implementation estimation and roadmap construction
• Analyzing, modeling, documenting, and assessing existing delivery processes according to the Architecture Trade-off Analysis methodology
• Working as an Architect including design, building and maintaining complex, cloud-based solutions
• Design of CI/CD pipelines (AWS Developer Tools, GitLab, Jenkins, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
• Excellence with AWS Cloud and proven experience in working and configuring major AWS PaaS/IaaS services
• AWS Solutions Architect certification (Pro is preferable, with Associate cert Pro will be defined as a goal for a trial period);
• Understanding of AWS Landing Zone, Well-Architected Framework and Cloud Adoption Framework;
• Hands-on experience with cloud migration
• Competitive public Clouds (GCP or Azure)
• Strong scripting skills (PowerShell, Python or Shell)
• Infrastructure as Code (principles, tools, best practices)
• Microsoft Server OS and technologies, including SQL Server, IIS, and Active Directory experience
• Linux Operating System
• Deploying, monitoring and administration of SQL/NoSQL DB
• Creation of technical specifications or architecture visions covering quality attributes, diagrams, associated risks, technical and system requirements
• Proven experience in leading/guiding small teams of engineers to drive them, decompose the complexity to tasks, mentor them and back-up if needed, communicate and convince around that or another decision
• Design, monitoring and gathering metrics platforms
• Knowledge of configuration management systems (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc.)
• Technical pre-sales activities (presentations, workshops, etc.)
• C-level presentation skills
• Possibility to travel to our customers in the US, UK, Europe, Singapore

Nice-to-have the following experience
• Software development (principles, tools, methodologies)
• Programming languages like Java, Ruby, Python, or Go

**YOU WANT TO WORK WITH**
• Amazon Web Services
• Architecture modernization
• Highly available, fault-tolerant, and secure solutions
• Cost optimization
• Monitoring and logging
• Hybrid solutions with multiple clouds and on-premises

**TOGETHER WE WILL**
• Excel at Cloud technologies and next-gen Hybrid Platforms
• Help to solve business and technical challenges through running discovery, architecture assessments, technical workshops with existing and potential clients
• Work with a vast range of tools and techniques on different projects
• Have access to strong educational and mentorship programs, including workshops from top AWS Solution Architects
• Work as a consultant with project enrollment up to 6 months
• Cooperate with experienced architects that consult some of the World’s top cloud technology companies