Position: Cloud Architect
Company: Intellias
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2020-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

Our customer is a multinational corporation with more than a century of history and offices in over 180 countries. Their most ambitious goal at the time is to introduce a range of Reduced-Risk Products (RRPs), offering smokers a healthier alternative to traditional cigarettes. The target audience is more than 1 billion of consumers around the globe.

Intellias mission is to help a client with the engineering of comprehensive software ecosystem for a game-changing IoT product on the margin of innovative consumer experience and cutting-edge technology. Our teams are involved in the engineering of core platform components for best in class eCommerce, Digital Marketing and IoT solutions. As a Cloud Architect you will become a part of Core Architecture Team and be responsible for the implementation of  best practices in our digital engagement platform.

**Requirements**:
Technical Skills:
• Background as software, infrastructure or as a system engineer
• Experience in agile practices (Scrum, Kanban)
• Strong understanding of system/software architecture patterns (Microservices, SOA, Event-Driven)
• Knowledge of design and implementation of resilience patterns, cloud-native patterns, distributed systems patterns, regional-failover patterns, 12factors
• Profound knowledge of Software development and delivery processes and frameworks
• Knowledge of AWS, strong experience in deploying HA solutions in AWS
• Knowledge of Containers - Docker/Kubernetes
• Infrastructure as a code
• Configuration Management
• Expert in a modern scripting language (Python, Go)
• Experience with SCM (git)
• Very good command of written and spoken English

Soft Skills:
• Team organization skills, ability to take over technical manager/product owner role
• Ability to drive initiatives, advocate technology and practices, socialize ideas
• Ability to drive and lead by an example implementation of POC, RnD types of products

Our stack
• Terraform
• AWS (VPC, EC2, S3, LoadBalancers, LAMBDA, IAM, Simple AD, Route53, ElasticCache)
• Ansible
• Kubernetes installed via KOPS on top of AWS
• Some applications which we are using: ExternalDNS, traefik/nginx ingress, velero, weave (scope, net, flux), Prometheus (Operator), Grafana, kube2iam, Keycloak, Filebeat, Jenkins, Selenium, Artifactory, Open Policy Agent, Helm, Rundeck, PagerDuty, ElasticSearch