Looking for Cloud Platform Architect in Seattle, WA   . Please let me know if you feel interested.

Cloud Platform Architect

Seattle, WA    

Contract

Job Description:

·         The person in this role primarily supports sales activities from a technical perspective as well as deliver on technology projects.

·         This person will design & deliver client solutions for a particular platform and should possess specialization & expertise in interfaces, components and design patterns used to develop cloud native platforms.

·         Lead the platform implementation, offer both conceptual & practical solutions.

·         Have a deep background in Java.

·         Contribute to assets/offerings & thought leadership.

·         Experience in messaging and integration technologies and components.

·         Knowledge of event driven architecture, Messaging technologies. (e.g. JMS, RabbitMQ, SQS, AMQP etc).

·         Have at least 10 years of experience in design and development of distributed software applications and cloud-native platforms.

·         Primary Skills: Java, Spring, Cloud, Microservices, Rest API, AWS, Azure, Spring, SaaS, PaaS, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, API Gateway, API Engineering, NoSQL, JMS, Hadoop.

Must demonstrate expertise in the following areas:

1)     Cloud-Native Application Design and Architecture (Must be strong in this area):

·         Actual experience in building cloud applications, Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS, e.g. OpenShift, CloudFoundry) using at least one of the following IaaS platforms: AWS, MS Azure, Google Cloud. Knowledge of and experience in design of microservice-based solutions.

·          Experience in designing load-balanced, auto-scalable, highly available, and secure architecture in cloud environment. API Managers/Gateways experience is a big plus.

2)     Data Engineering & Analytics:

·         Big Data technologies experience (Apache Spark, Hive/HDFS, NiFi).

·         Machine Learning and/or Data Analytics platforms (Splunk, Pivotal Analytics, Kognito Analytics)

3)     Development and Operations Engineering desired:

·         Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment for large and small teams... Docker experience is a plus.

        4) Other skills required to support sales activities:

·         Good communicator and collaborator with customers and stakeholders -- Demonstrable experience in explaining problem space to the customers and working with them in building technical solution architecture.

·         Build presentations and illustrations explaining complex concepts to the stakeholders.

·         Selling Ideas and creative solutions. Experience with costing solutions or budgeting. Demonstrable leadership experience.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.