Senior AWS Architect/Engineer

• Selected candidate must reside within two (2) hours of the client's Headquarters in Woodlawn, MD
  


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

• Provide engineering and operations support for the AWS 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.
  


• All other duties as assigned or directed.
  

• Systems Admin supporting Middleware
  


• Enterprise Applications
  


• Managing complex systems/projects
  


• Workflow
  


• Technical knowledge of AWS platform and applications in AWS IaaS, PaaS, SaaS environments
  


• Understanding Network functions/team collaboration.
  

Requirements

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


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


• 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)
  


• Must be able to obtain a public trust clearance.
  

• 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).
  

• 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.