Senior Aws Architect Jobs

Client: Insurance company

Role: Senior AWS Architect

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Hybrid/Vancouver

Your New Company

Our client, a industry-leading insurance provider is looking for a Senior AWS Architect for a permanent role, to join their team.

Your New Role:

• Provide cloud solutions with diversity, high reliability, high available, fully fault tolerant, and high security to meet the business requirements.
• Maintain the existing services EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, S3 Buckets, VPC, Security Groups, TGW, ELB, Auto scaling, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, SES, CloudWatch, ECS, EKS, CloudTrail, CloudFormation.
• Design, Deploy and maintain enterprise class security, network and systems management applications within an AWS environment.
• Partner with technology leaders to drive innovation in the cloud environment, by assessing, developing, and assisting with the implementation of new cloud base technology.
• Design and develop the baseline DevOps infrastructure and lead the implementation. Design and lead the cloud DevOps practices.
• Consult with project teams t fit projects to enterprise architecture.
• Monitor and record all AWS service API events across multiple accounts utilizing AWS VPC Flow Log, AWS CouldTrail, AWS Config
• Lead all AWS accounts structure by utilizing AWS Control Tower, AWS SSO, AWS Organization.
• Design and develop Serverless application CI/CD pipeline, lead and provide guidance on implementation across the teams.
• Understand the business strategy to drive the right architecture.
• Engage with vendors and partners to ensure BCAA cloud practices are followed by external partners and vendors.
• Standardize the frameworks of AWS Serverless development (AWS SAM) for the organization.
• Advise on options, risks, costs versus benefits, system impacts and technology priorities.
• Ensure that the cloud architecture is aligned with the company’s strategic goals.
• Investigate avenues of cost optimization in the cloud environment Follow security regulations in all solution designs Support the business development lifecycle (Business Development, Capture, Solution Architect, Pricing and Proposal Development) Contribute to project documentation and knowledge sharing activities.
• Maintain valid relevant certifications and ensure to keep up to date with the best cloud practices.
• Apply AWS well architected framework and best design practices. Continuously lead and participate in knowledge transfer activities.
• Perform as a teammate and actively maintain collaboration and knowledge share with other relevant teams.
• Participate in compliance and security reviews if necessary.
• Partner with technology leaders to create cloud solutions using AWS cloud services.
• Support and supervise junior team members.
• Collaborate with security partners and lead the AWS accounts network structure utilizing AWS Transit Gateway, Palo Alto Firewall Configure and lead access and authorization to AWS services via IAM and AWS SSO.
• Design and deploy end to end automated CICD pipeline for containers in AWS ECS or AWS EKS.
• Form relationships with partners and become a trusted advisor for critical workloads.
• Identify and communicate technical risks as they emerge over the course of a project.
• Responsible for implementation, deployment, and security of container orchestration platform like AWS EKS, AWS ECS. Utilize secret management solution such as Vault cluster, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS SSM Parameter store.
• Build and deploy Infrastructure and Cloud automation and Infrastructure as Code (IAC) solution.

What You’ll Need to Succeed:

• Solutions Architect Professional
• DevOps Engineer Professional
• The following AWS Professional certifications required:
• Security Specialty
• Total 15 of Years’ Experience
• Advanced Networking Specialty
• Education Bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science or related field.

Other Skills / Qualifications:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical staff.
• Hands on experience with DevOps tools such as Terraform, Vault, Consul, Ansible, etc. Hands on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, AWS Code Pipeline, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CDK and AWS SAM Hands on experience of AWS data services such as Athena, SageMaker, Glue, Redshift, Kinesis.
• Strong knowledge of AWS SDK and development experience in python.
• Hands on experience with different operating systems (Windows, Linux, RHEL, etc)
• Track record of knowledge sharing activities, mentoring and guiding junior developers.
• Experience with revision control source code repositories such as github, bitbucket, svn, etc. Experience with Atlassian Stacks (Bitbucket, JIRA and Confluence)
• Deep knowledge of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing and firewalling. Deep understanding of Amazon Well Architected framework. Extensive experience with and strong knowledge of AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) and AWS service; Kinesis, Lambda, EC2, ECS, SQS, SNS, RDS, S3, DynamoDB, Amazon Connect and Cloud Formation.
• Proven experience as a technical specialist working with business critical and big data workloads in a highly regulated industry.
• 8+ years of hands on experience delivering cloud solutions in production across various cloud providers.
• Knowledge of relational and non-relational databases.
• Strong knowledge with Web Services - API’s front-end /backend, application integration development and design Prior success track of building CI/CD pipelines and a strong understanding of best CICD practices.
• Demonstrated track record of building and following monitoring standard methodologies with tools such as CloudWatch and Splunk.
• 5+ years of experience in technical solutions role, designing, implementing applications, databases and networks. Extensive experience writing code/scripting in programming language. (e.g. Python, NodeJS, Java etc.)
• Track record of implementing infrastructure as code IaC.

What You’ll Get in Return

The client is offering a very competitive compensation package which includes excellent benefits and profit sharing. They have a casual friendly and highly collaborative environment.

Interested?

If you’re available and interested in this role, please reply to [email protected] as soon as you can attaching your updated resume and hourly rate requirement.