Role: AWS-DevOps Architect

Location: Richmond, VA

Responsibilities:

• Leads in the administration and configuration of AWS services.
• Design and enable interfaces for DevOps Builds and Release management and enable CI / CD pipeline for applications.
• Provides functional and technical expertise on applications and interfaces.
• Drives engagement with Security and Infrastructure teams to ensure secure deployment of applications.
• Designing complete monitoring solutions and remediation using operations tools including ITSM ticketing platforms.
• Assists product owners in systems analysis and creation of documentation for all business processes.
• Participate in technical design meetings with Enterprise and application architects.
• Must have strong understanding of application architecture, common failure modes and the development process.
• Must have strong understanding of 24x7 application operations, including Incident Management, Change Management, and Capacity Management.
• Works within the SAFe Agile framework. Participate in sprint planning.
• Ability to wear multiple hats spanning the software-development-life-cycle across.

Requirements:

• Conduct daily scrum, technical clinic s and other governance ceremonies with DevOps team.
• Assists in production support and maintenance of applications as needed.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to create and present concepts and recommendations to management.
• High-level communication skills to influence and persuade others.

Must have:

• Need progressive, broad-based IT experience successfully implementing complex IT applications and / or developing efficient effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems.
• 7+ years of demonstrated functional work experience in the related area with at least 2+ years of AWS cloud.
• Good understanding of AWS Infrastructure services and their limitations.
• Have experience building and deploying as containers on a cloud platform using an automated CI / CD pipeline.
• Experience in configuring & monitoring different attributes and handling scale up and scale down scenarios for the application in Azure.
• Application monitoring through operations insights, application insights.
• Provide best practices around provisioning production and non-production environments on AWS to optimize the usage.
• Have good understanding in implementation of advanced security, authentication and single sign on across cloud and on premise.
• Have implemented a Dev Ops model on AWS.
• Have evaluated products/technology & created IT Roadmap for adoption.
• Have adopted end to end automation.
• At least 3+ years of experience working in an Agile team Added advantage.
• Good if candidate is from an application development background who has expertise in building large scale web applications before the cloud experience.
• Good to have knowledge of common and industry standard cloud-native/cloud-friendly authentication mechanisms (OAuth, OpenID, etc.).
• Experience with deployment orchestration, automation, and security configuration management preferred.
• Experience with service-oriented architecture for cloud-based services.