Senior Aws Cloud Architect

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BCAA is looking for a Regular Full-Time Senior AWS Cloud Architect!
Please note that this role is based within the Burnaby, BC and will have a hybrid work environment model. BCAA is proud to provide relocation assistance to British Columbia for the right candidate.
BCAA's Cloud Engineering and AI team is looking for a fulltime Senior Cloud Architect to join their team. The Senior Cloud Architect will come with 15+ years of technology and technical role experience. The candidate will have 5+ years of AWS specific experience including application development, infrastructure as code, DevOps practice, cloud security and networking and CIDC practices. The Senior Cloud Architect has a strong passion for improving the experience of the end user, while having an appreciation of the challenges or working in a hybrid infrastructure environment. The candidate should have good communication skills who can lead both technical and non-technical discussions.
Key Responsibilities & Subsequent Duties

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

Education

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science or related field.

Experience
Total # of Years’ Experience: 15
The following AWS professional certifications required:

• AWS Security Specialty
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional
• AWS DevOps Engineer Professional
• AWS Advanced Networking Specialty

Other Skills / Qualifications

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

Internal Applicants: This internal posting will close on March 4th and is a Grade 16 role.
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