Position: Cloud Architect (AWS)
Company: SoftServe
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2021-08-01T00:00:00+03:00

We take full ownership of implementation projects to ensure exceptional results for our clients. Our team provides end-to-end customer experience in the post-implementation phase.
The client's success is our focus, and we accept any challenge as a gift.
We have developed a customer-trusted relationship and a strong partnership with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. Being a part of the international community, we participate in major worldwide events and develop multiple AWS User communities.
Our team is not tied to specific projects, technologies, timelines. We work directly with AWS, and our clients are tech Startups but also Forbes 500 Companies.
As a part of our team, you will contribute to cloud-oriented projects of different sizes and scales. Your daily work will be connected with migrations, consulting, cloud-enabling, spreading the expertise and professional culture across the organization.

**YOU ARE**
The professional demonstrating the following experience in
— 2+ years working in designing, building, and maintaining complex, cloud-based solutions
— 2+ years with Linux Operating System
— Designing CI/CD pipelines (AWS Developer Tools, GitLab, Jenkins, etc.)
— Hands-on practice 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
— Skill in competitive public Clouds (GCP or Azure)
— Strong knowledge of PowerShell, Python, or Shell
— Terraform and solid experience in Infrastructure as Code (principles, tools, best practices)
— Microsoft Server OS and technologies, including SQL Server, IIS, and  Active Directory experience
— 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
— 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
— Designing, monitoring and gathering metrics platforms
Knowledge of configuration management systems (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc)
— Managing technical pre-sale activities (presentations, workshops, etc.)
— C-level presentation skills
— Possibility to travel to our customers in the US, UK, Europe, Singapore

Nice to have
— Experience in software development (principles, tools, methodologies)
— Knowledge of programming languages like Java, Ruby, Python, or Go

**YOU WANT TO WORK WITH**
— Participating 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. Communicating technical constraints and decisions to the business
— Elaborating 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 plan 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

**TOGETHER WE WILL**
— Work with Excel at Cloud technologies and next-gen Hybrid Platforms
— Provide our knowledge, while testing and developing our technical capabilities during project discoveries and workshops
— Give you access to innovative tools and technologies and the ability to try them out on different project