Roles & Responsibilities
The resource will be responsible to organize the development effort of a systems solution. The solutions architect is responsible for the development of the overall vision that underlies the projected solution and transforms that vision through execution into the solution.
Required Skills
✓ 12-15 years of experience that includes 3-4 years of solution architect experience
✓ 3+ years of experience on application development and deployment using various services in AWS
✓ Study existing technology landscape and understand current application workloads
✓ Understand and document technical requirements from clients
✓ Write high code on Terraform to set up the environment.
✓ Define Migration strategy to move the application to cloud
✓ Develop architecture blueprints and detailed documentation.
✓ Create bill of materials, including required Cloud Services (such as EC2, S3 etc.) and tools;
✓ 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
✓ Build the environment, Execute migration plan, Leverage appropriate AWS services
✓ Validate the environment to meet all security and compliance controls
✓ Extensive experience in architecting, designing and programming applications in an AWS Cloud environment
✓ Experience in defining new architectures and ability to drive projects from an architecture standpoint
✓ Hands-on working knowledge around standard AWS services, such as IAM, Cloud formation, EC2, S3, Lambda, VPCs, Load balancing, Networking and Monitoring the health of these services using tools/processes.
✓ Awareness of programming concepts and experience in debugging of complicated systems in efficient way – a Must
✓ Hands-on working knowledge on deploying AWS Cloud Formation scripts, SSL Certificates- Cloud Security in AWS, specifically IAM Roles & Polices, Security Groups and Encryption keys.
✓ Knowledge of Kubernetes and Cluster Management. Hands-on is a plus.
✓ Hands-on – Strong scripting skills (e.g. Terraform, Powershell, Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl etc.)
✓ Proven experience assessing clients workloads and technology landscape for Cloud suitability, develop business case and Cloud adoption roadmap
✓ Experience to build scalable production systems (load balancers, mem-cached, master/slave architectures)
✓ Experience in developing and running event derive microservices along with Cloud (AWS)
✓ Experience in Application Server –Tomcat/nginix
✓ Deployment of the micro-services applications on Kubernetes on AWS
✓ 3+ years of experience in Linux – a Must
✓ Experience of working databases – MySQL, any NoSQL – a Must
✓ Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills.
✓ Certification on AWS architecture is desirable