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Senior AWS Architect Engineer

JPC Partners
On-site
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
JPC Partners is looking for a Senior AWS Architect Engineer that will:

  • Provide engineering and operations support for the AWS Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) platform

  • Analyze application and platform and translate functional requirements into technical solutions

  • Provide recommendations to solve technical business problems and identify opportunities and risks

  • Provide cloud architectural, platform optimization consulting expertise to technical leads, cloud engineers, and other systems architects

  • Document and review IT cloud architecture/infrastructure, and technology portfolio

  • Provide recommendations and implementation of cloud technology standards policies and standards

  • Attend all customer technical discussions/design/development meetings and provide technical inputs to further enhance the code quality/process

  • Impact functional strategy by developing new solutions, processes, standards, or operational plans that position customer competitively in the marketplace with best practices


Qualifications:

  • 7+ years of experience in Ansible, Kubernetes, Containers, GitLab, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence and CloudFormation

  • 7+ years in AWS Cloud Services such as VPC, EC2, EKS, ECR, EFS, EBS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFront, SQS, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, Route 53, Cloud Watch and IAM

  • 5+ years of experience practicing AWS Cloud Computing, DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure Automation, Configuration Management, and Quality Engineering Expertise

  • Proficiency with integrating AWS applications with inhouse systems e.g., CRM, ServiceNow

  • Contact Center Migration experience from legacy systems to cloud hosted capabilities

  • Experience working in Agile Practices (e.g. SAFE, Scrum)

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field

  • Master's or Doctorate degree may substitute for required experience


***Β Selected candidateΒ must reside within two (2) hours of Client Headquarters in Baltimore, MD

***Β Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site at least 2 days a week

Required Skills:

  • Strong understanding of cloud computing architecture and design principles

  • Experience with infrastructure as code, automation, and deployment strategies

  • Experience with deploying and managing cloud-based solutions in production

  • Solid AWS Services Experience: Connect, EC2, Cloud Formation, VPC, ELB, AWS Security, S3, RDS, EBS, ECS

  • Extensive hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools for automation (Ansible)

  • Hands-on experience with programming languages (e.g., Python, Ruby or PowerShell)

  • Experience with monitoring tools (Nagios, Splunk)


Desired Skills

  • Experience with Lean / Agile development methodologies

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills and experience working in a team environment

  • Hands-on and architectural experience with modern Cloud Native architectures

  • Delivery (CI/CD) best practices and use of DevOps to accelerate quality releases to Production

  • Design and build high-quality, scalable, and secure cloud-based solutions on the AWS platform

  • Experience working in a PaaS / SaaS environments, Agile practices and service-oriented environments

  • Self-starter, highly motivated individual who adapts and isn't afraid to volunteer in a dynamic work environment

  • Strong attention to detail with an ability to operate effectively across multiple priorities.

  • Adept at working independently, but also in a team environment

  • Demonstrated experience delivering technology solutions in a fast-paced, deadline driven enterprise environment

  • Excellent understanding of change management, testing requirements, techniques, and tools to ensure high availability of systems

  • Prior Federal government experience