Principal Cloud Architect

Principal Cloud Architect

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related field
• 6 years of IT Production Workload experience
• 3 years of combined experience in AWS CodeBuild, CodePipeline, and/or CodeDeploy
• 3 years of combined experience in the primary AWS services of VPC, IAM, EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53, and S3
• 3 years of experience in Configuration Management using CloudFormation, Ansible, Terraform, Chef, and Puppet
• 3 years of experience using automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation
• 3 years of experience using governance tools such as AWS Config, Inspector, and Lambda
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional or Solutions Architect Professional
• Expertise with the standard software development life cycle (SDLC) and Agile/iterative methodologies
• Equivalent relevant experience performing the essential functions of this job may substitute for education degree requirements. Generally, equivalent relevant experience is defined as 1 year of experience for 1 year of education and is the discretion of the hiring manager.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates big picture thinking and can not only design but more importantly implement.
• Approaches customer issues strategically, understanding different business requirements and challenges with implementations.
• Participates in new systems architectural reviews from a governance perspective and provides analysis feedback in post deployment critiques.
• Plans and manages hardware platform design, such as identifying components, standardized infrastructure components, serviceability, and creating systems solutions and frameworks.
• Performs analysis of systems and identifies problem areas, identifies ways to enhance existing systems, and develops viable solutions.
• Develops and trains Engineers on DevOps and CI/CD methodologies and tools for automated infrastructure code test, integration, deployment, and assurance.
• Provides technical support to education segment product teams for various activities such as with testing, validation, sustaining, value engineering, and DevOps required for the products we support.
• Publishes white papers, how-to articles, training materials, and presents at our internal summits annually.
• Ensures our systems are built on HA (High Availability) Architecture and provides native Backup/DR support within our defined RTO/RPO requirements.
• Mentors one or more Associate Level Engineers within our Platform Services group and motivates them to produce innovative solutions to the University’s architectural obstacles.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong experience with distance education and distance learning students
• Expertise in at least one programming language
• Expertise in cloud spend optimizations and serverless technology such as AWS Lambda
• Expertise with the integration of cloud services with on-premises technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP, etc.
• Expertise with compliance and risk management requirements (e.g. security, PCI, privacy, SOX, HIPAA, etc.)
• JSON and YAML expertise