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Role:                     AWS Cloud  Enterprise Architect

Location:             Atlanta, GA/ Chicago, IL/New York/ New Jersey

Interview:           Phone/Skype

Emp Type:           Permanent Job

Duties & Responsibilities:

•                    The position oversees applied research or advanced design in the development of new applications/systems or technical processes, directs activities required to complete major enterprise projects. Specifies technical design approach and standards; demonstrate deep expertise in technical design by articulating the strengths and weaknesses associated with utilizing alternative architecture solutions.

•                    Recommend architecture upgrades based on technical trends or changes in the nature of the systems that use architecture; provide cost/benefit analysis for architecture design; balance the requirements for quality against development and maintenance costs in resolving architecture issues. Determine new ways to package existing technologies in order to produce innovative architectures; suggest new hardware and software that should be developed to surpass the limitations of existing equipment.

•                    Bridge the gap between business needs and technological solutions; demonstrate an ability to draw on both business and technical expertise; establish a high level trust among both business and technical professionals.

•                    Provide analysis and design using the company mandated methodology and toolset. Provide high level analysis and facilitate design sessions. Proficient in design/analysis on a number of software/hardware platforms.

•                    Provide roadmap that illustrates the approach for solution design & delivery that should be undertaken for complex projects.

•                    Portfolio Management: Key participant in technology planning activities from both a technical and financial perspective.  Utilize cost/benefit analysis skills when determining a proper architecture solution

•                    Key Responsibilities:

•                    Responsible for large infrastructure projects from technical implementation and project management perspective.

•                    Deliver projects within timelines, quality and within budgets

•                    Assume leadership of client engagements and be able to work without direct supervision and interface with Customer IT and business functions

•                    Enabling smooth transition of IT operations or clients into a service provider delivery model

•                    Work closely with the sales and delivery teams during the presales phases

•                    Will be an on-site extension of offshore technology practice and will assist in pre-sales activities when required

Qualifications:

The duties and responsibilities described above are the essential functions of the job.  The qualifications below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. 

Requirements:

•                    Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field equivalent

•                    Must be a US Resident or US Citizen

•                    Available to travel when required (~70%)

•                    5+ years of experience in private cloud to AWS public cloud migrations

•                    5+ years of experience in hybrid cloud solution deployments

•                    Application architecture design for Cloud Computing is a must

•                    10+ years of experience designing and supporting large scale virtualization environment with multi-tier

•                    5+ years of hands on experience with at least 1 virtualization platform

•                    10+ years of experience in tuning systems for high performance, wide understanding of major open source projects in virtualization and cloud

•                    5+ years of experience with blade systems, data center networking gear (switches, firewalls, storage, etc…) & supporting systems (Web, DB's, RADIUS, DHCP, DNS, etc…)

•                    3+ years of experience with OpenStack

•                    Expert understanding of private and public cloud design considerations and limitations in the areas of virtualization, infrastructure, distributed systems, networking, massive data storage and security

•                    Experience with central authentication (LDAP/AD) and security

•                    Deployment automation tools like Puppet and Chef, build systems, monitoring solutions and other common tools / platforms

•                    Excellent presentation, business, analytical, problem solving and communication skills (written and verbal)

•                    Experienced in presenting at IT industry forums and conferences (i.e., whitepapers and case studies)

•                    Should have delivered at least 4 large scale IT infrastructure projects for Enterprises with large IT infrastructure with direct architectural accountabilities for execution and delivery

•                    Possesses good knowledge of various other IT Infrastructure technologies (Data Center Services, Cross Functional Services like Tools & processes, EUC, Disaster recovery etc.,)

•                    Excellent ability to elicit customer requirements, define limits to project scope and develop / review / approve Statement of works

•                    Exposure working in a global delivery model leveraging offshore locations

Preferences:

•                    Prior presales or consulting experience

•                    Familiarity with popular hypervisors (VMware, Citrix Xen Server, KVM)

•                    Advanced certifications in AWS

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