AWS Architect

Location: Bloomfield, CT

Responsibilities:

•Partner with the Stakeholders to design solutions for customers, drive AWS adoption and revenue.

•Be an AWS evangelist. Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS.

•Establish credibility & build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.

•Participate in deep architectural discussions to build confidence and ensure customer success when building new and migrating existing applications, software and services on the AWS platform.

•Conduct deep-dive “hands-on” education/training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.

•Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS SA community.

•Technical liaison between customers, service engineering & support teams.

•Study existing technology landscape and understand current application workloads

•Define Migration strategy to move application to cloud

•Develop architecture blueprints and detailed documentation. In depth knowledge of Migration tools and AWS commonly used services (EC2,S3,etc.).

•Design the overall Virtual Private Cloud VPC environment including server instance, storage instances, subnets, availability zones, etc

•Design the AWS network architecture including VPN connectivity between regions and subnets

•Design the HA / DR strategies

•Set up process, services and tools around cloud

•Oversee build of the environment

•Execute migration plan

•Leverage appropriate AWS services

•Validate the environment to meets all security and compliance control

Requirements:

•10+ Years of software development experience; particularly within the Healthcare industry.

•Experience with software/technology in a customer facing role

•Experience with “on-premise to cloud” migrations or IT transformations

•Experience architecting/operating solutions build on AWS

•Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers

•Excellent communication skills with an ability to right level conversations

•Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly

•Minimum of 3 years of AWS experience in solution design and implementation

•Advanced knowledge of AWS Services including:

Management - CloudWatch (Events/Logs), IAM, CloudTrail, EC2 Systems Manage

IaaS - EC2, VPC, ECS, EKS, Openshift, Direct connect, EBS, ELB, KMS, Config, SNS, SQS, SES, SWF, S3, Glacier

Data Management - Redshift, RDS, EMR, Data Pipeline, Kinesis, DynamoDB, In-memory data store

Security – IAM, Active directory (Any LDAP solution), Key Management, Encryption, RBAC

Other - Server Migration, Storage Gateway

•AWS Associate Level Certification preferred (Professional desired)

• Experience with programming (e.g. Python, Java) and exposure to infrastructure automation (Ansible/terraform)

•Experience developing, deploying, testing in AWS architecture

•Proficiency and experience with AWS developer tools and workflows (AWSCLI, CloudFormation, etc.)