Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on Architecture concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Skilled in conducting application and infrastructure design reviews/assessment and recognizing weaknesses vulnerabilities in systems (FMEA)
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts and tools (Terraform).
- Expertise in AWS Network design (VPC, Transit Gateway, Route Table, Route 53, Interface endpoints, NLB, ALB, NAT Gateway)
- Expertise in AWS Services like EKS, ECS Fargate, Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Amazon MSK, ElastiCache Redis, AWS API Gateway, etc.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Go, Python and Java
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to identify and resolve complex infrastructure issues.
- Strong understanding of AWS architecture patterns, and best practices.
- Must have an owner's mindset, customer-focus, and a sense of urgency to bring tasks to completion
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Practitioner/Cloud Engineer/Software Development Engineer/Cloud Security Engineer/Cloud Security Architect/Application Architect are highly desirable.
- Comfortable presenting their ideas and solutions to other architects and product teams.