Allcloud Principal AWS Solutions Architect 

United States 

573395650

Summary of Key Responsibilities

• Understand the customer’s business & application requirements and translate them into system / technical requirements
• Proven experience with designing and implementing cloud systems, and experience convincing senior management and senior technical staff of the benefits of their cloud journey
• Provide exceptional AWS technical design and thought leadership, especially around AWS architecture reviews, performance, high availability, cost, and security.
• Deep understanding of the Well-Architected pillars and all best practices for building a secure, performant cloud platform
• Lead technical workshops and advise customers on architectural and strategic IT decisions
• Ensure success in designing, building and migrating applications, software, and services on the AWS platform
• Educate customers on best practices to ensure their solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
• Work with other AllCloud teams to ensure quality and customer success
• Capture and share knowledge with AllCloud’s broader technical experts community
• Provide both pre-sales architecture support to drive sales along with completing cloud architectural activities and engagements

Summary of Requirements & Experience

• Minimum of 20 years enterprise IT application experience that includes at least 10 years of hands-on software development, DevOps engineering, systems administration, or systems architecture in a cloud environment
• Well-rounded knowledge of systems, network, security, storage, cloud products and technologies in differing environments
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
• Demonstrated ability to architect and implement solutions on AWS
• Significant experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture, networking and security
• History of successful technical consulting and architecture engagements with large-scale customers or enterprises
• Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations
• Hands-on experience with IaC tools (CDK preferred, or Terraform, Cloudformation)
• AWS Certified Solution Architect - Professional

Certifications Preferred

• AWS Certification: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
• AWS Certification: AWS Certified Devops – Professional
• AWS Certification: AWS Certified SysOps Admin - Associate
• AWS Certification: AWS Certified Developer - Associate
• Two or more AWS specialty certifications (network, security, AI/ML, etc)

Advantages

• Technical degree; B.Sc Computer Science is highly desired, Master degree preferred
• Demonstrated experience leading or developing high quality, enterprise-scale distributed applications using modern software development practices and technologies is highly desired