Job Description :
- 8+ years of experience in as a Cloud Architect with hands in AWS, ECS Fargate, CI/CD hands one experience in Cloud
- Primary stakeholder collaborating with Dir Engineering on software/infrastructure architecture, monitoring/alerting framework and all other architectural level technical issues
- Design and manage implementation of performance, scalable, extensible and resilient microservices application stack based of existing, partially migrated monolithic application and for new product development.
Includes :
- Utilizing either ECS Fargate (no EC2 clusters) or EKS as the orchestration framework - to be tested up to a minimum of 100k concurrent users
- Exploring, designing and implementing use of on demand compute (Lambda) where appropriate
- Scalable and redundant data architecture supporting microservices design principles
- A scalable reverse proxy layer to isolate microservices from managing network connections
- Utilizing CDN capabilities to offload origin load via an intelligent caching strategy
- Leveraging best in breed AWS service offerings to enable team to focus on application stack instead of application scaffolding while minimizing operational complexity and cost
- Monitoring and optimizing of stack for security and monitoring
- Leverage AWS and 3rd party services to monitor the application stack and data; secure them from DDOS attacks and security breaches; and alert the team in the vent of an incident
- Using APM and logging tools :
1. Monitor application stack and infrastructure component performance
2. Proactively detect, triage and mitigate stack performance issues
3. Alert upon exception events
4. Provide triaging tools for debugging and RCA
- Enhance the CI/CD pipeline to support automated testing, a resilient deployment model (e.g., blue-green, canary) and 100% rollback support (including the data layer)
- Development a comprehensive, supportable, repeatable IAC implementation using CloudFormation or Terraform
- Take a leadership role and exhibit expertise in the development of standards, architectural governance, design patterns, best practices and optimization of existing architecture.
- Partner with teams and leaders to provide strategic consultation for business process design/optimization, creating strategic technology road maps, performing rapid prototyping and implementing technical solutions to accelerate the fulfillment of the business strategic vision.
- Staying up-to-date on emerging technologies (AI, Automation, Cloud etc.) and trends with a clear focus on productivity, ease of use and fit-for-purpose, by researching, testing, and evaluating.
- Providing POCs and product implementation guidelines.
- Advising and mentoring engineering teams.
- Applying imagination and innovation by creating, inventing, and implementing new or better approaches, alternatives and breakthrough ideas that are valued by customers within the function.
- Assessing current state of solutions, defining future state needs, identifying gaps and recommending new technology solutions and strategic business execution improvements.
- Overseeing and facilitating the evaluation and selection technology, product standards and the design of standard configurations/implementation patterns.
- Partnering with other architects and solution owners to create standards and set strategies for the enterprise.
- Communicating directly with business colleagues on applying digital workplace technologies to solve identified business challenges.
