Position: Senior Solution Architect (Netherlands)
Company: Epam
Category: Sysadmin
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent
Published: 2020-05-01T00:00:00+03:00

DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a Senior Solution Architect with extensive knowledge in implementation infrastructure solutions and systems integration hands-on experience to help with the development and turnkey integrations of a hybrid OTT video platform.

You are curious, persistent, logical and clever. If this sounds like you, this could be the perfect opportunity to join EPAM. Keep reading to learn more about this exciting role!

Come and join EPAM where Engineering is in our DNA.


RESPONSIBILITIES

- Design scalable and cloud-agnostic solution for a video platform that can run in public clouds and on-prem datacenters;
- Visualize the architecture and document the solution using architecture styles, patterns and frameworks;
- Work with key stakeholders and application owners to identify the requirements and business needs and translate them into clear technical solutions ready for handling to developers and systems engineers;
- Conduct presentations and solution review sessions with peers;
- Present solutions to CxO level;
- Lead the implementation, oversee the development and provide technical guidance and help to the engineering teams;
- Take a leadership role in the delivery activities, such as production deployments end-to-end integrations and handover to operations;
- Participate in systems troubleshooting and problem solving sessions across applications;
- Drive best practices in DevOps, advocate IaC and CM principles;
- Contribute to the project codebase, create PoCs;
- Make decisions, justify them, take ownership and responsibility for the solution;


REQUIREMENTS

- Strong experience in systems engineering:
     - Advanced knowledge of Linux operating systems;
     - Expertise in automation of systems and application deployments using IaC and SCM tools such as Terraform and Ansible;
     - Professional in network domains: routing and switching/data center/cloud/security/service provider;
     - Storages, SANs and database management systems;
     - Expertise delivering solutions using cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, Azure;
     - Experience building highly-avaiable, scalable and redundant (including geo-redundancy) solution;
- Expertise in global traffic management, load-balancing and CDN solutions;
- Understanding of SDLC and CI/CD concepts and tools;
- Experience building monitoring solutions;
- Expertise in architecting, documenting and presenting solutions;
- Experience working in large distributed teams;
- Optional development background:
       - Scripting in Bash/Python/Groovy/Go;
       - Design, implementation and testing of API integrations using REST/SOAP;
       - Experience developing web services applications in Java/Python;
       - Git;
- Optional domain knowledge in OTT/Media/Telecom;


TECHNOLOGIES

- Applications: Java microservices and monolithic apps, NodeJS, .Net, Python;
- Container orchestration: Kubernetes;
- Infrastructure: VmWare, Cisco ACI, NetApp;
- DevOps: Atlassian Suite, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Helm;
- Automation: Terraform, Ansible;
- Databases: PostgreSQL, Oracle, MSSQL, Mysql, MongoDB, Cassandra;
- Messaging: Kafka, HiveMQ;
- Load-Balancers/Proxy: Big-IP F5 LTM, Nginx;
- Scripting: Bash, Python;
- Cloud: AWS;


WE OFFER

- Competitive Compensation;
- 26 paid holiday days;
- Commuting to work- costs reimbursement;
- Option to participate in our Pension Plan scheme OR Health insurance Compensation;
- Discretionary Performance Based bonus;
- Laptop + Corporate Simcard;
- Annual Salary Review;
- Trainings, Internal Education and Dutch Language Courses;
- Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions;
- Relocation Package;
- Regular Corporate and Social Events;
- The opportunity to be part of a diverse and multicultural company;