Cloud Solutions Architect

Amer Technology - Austin, TX

Full-time

Austin, TX

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Cloud Solutions Architect is responsible for leveraging their technical expertise in cloud services to design and implement scalable and robust systems on the AWS cloud platform. This role involves providing architectural guidance throughout the project lifecycle, collaborating with various teams, and ensuring that solutions align with security standards.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS.
• Provide architectural guidance and oversight throughout the project lifecycle.
• Collaborate with different technical and non-technical teams to develop and implement robust cloud solutions.
• Select appropriate AWS services based on data, compute, database, or security requirements.
• Hands-on experience designing distributed systems and applications on the AWS Cloud.
• Identify and gather requirements to define a solution to be built and operated on cloud infrastructure.
• Assess the existing infrastructure and recommend modifications as necessary.
• Educate on architectural principles and best practices on various technical levels.
• Ensure solutions and infrastructures align with TIERS security standards.
• Lead technical and design discussions to help speed up the adoption of new technologies and practices.
• Working knowledge of storage and backup solutions provided by AWS.
• Experience with ITIL ticketing using Remedy and ServiceNow.
• Experience managing Archer GRC.

Requirements

• Expertise in operating systems such as Red Hat Linux and Windows (12 years).
• Design and deploy scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS (10 years).
• Provide architectural guidance and oversight throughout the project lifecycle (10 years).
• Collaborate with different technical and non-technical teams to develop and implement robust cloud solutions (10 years).
• Select appropriate AWS services based on data, compute, database, or security requirements (10 years).
• Hands-on experience designing distributed systems and applications on the AWS Cloud (8 years).
• Identify and gather requirements to define a solution to be built and operated on cloud infrastructure (8 years).
• Assess the existing infrastructure and recommend modifications as necessary (8 years).
• Educate on architectural principles and best practices on various technical levels (8 years).
• Ensure solutions and infrastructures align with TIERS security standards (8 years).
• Lead technical and design discussions to help speed up the adoption of new technologies and practices (8 years).
• Working knowledge of storage and backup solutions provided by AWS (8 years).
• Experience with ITIL ticketing using Remedy and ServiceNow (8 years).
• Experience managing Archer GRC (8 years).

Nice-to-haves

• Comprehensive knowledge of networking concepts such as IP addresses, DNS, TCP/IP, and other standard networking protocols (5 years).
• General knowledge of database software such as Oracle, MSSQL, Postgres, etc. (5 years).
• Knowledge of identity and access management as well as additional cybersecurity principles (5 years).
• Keep abreast of the newest cloud computing developments and work to improve the organization's cloud infrastructure (5 years).
• AWS Solutions Architect Certification.