Description
Principal AWS Solutions Architect
Location: US / Canada (Eastern Time) - Home based
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
About AllCloud
AllCloud is a global professional services company providing organizations with cloud enablement and transformation tools. As an AWS Premier Consulting Partner and audited MSP, a Salesforce Platinum Partner, and a Snowflake Premier Partner, AllCloud helps clients connect their front and back offices by building a new operating model to harness the benefits of cloud technology and data and analytics.
Job Summary
AllCloud is looking for experienced and highly motivated technologists who possess technical depth and strong interpersonal skills. You are the quarterback of the professional services team, leading a group of engineers in providing highly secure, performant, and highly available cloud systems. You direct the engineers to the goal line, providing input on user stories, epics, and features needed to accomplish the work. As an AWS solution architect, you will lead technical workshops, advise customers on architectural and strategic IT decisions and design highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business challenges. As a trusted customer advocate, the solutions architect will help organizations understand best practices around advanced AWS cloud-based solutions, and go “toe to toe” with customer senior technologists and executives that do not understand the advantages of cloud computing. The ability to connect technology with measurable business value is critical to a solutions architect.
A principal solutions architect has “been there and done that” in designing and implementing cloud solutions. S/he has been prolific in their blogs and posts about their passion for cloud and the amazing advantages in time to market, developer productivity and happiness, fast feature delivery and accelerators by using existing AWS services to perform the grunt work for many system components. The Principal Architect has either written books, white papers, or extensive blogs on cloud computing and has spoken to large audiences and the most senior CxO levels at major corporations.
The ideal candidate is passionate to increase their deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad know-how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform. She/he will possess customer facing skills that will allow them to represent AllCloud well within a customer's environment and drive discussions with senior personnel within the company, as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact and give guidance with software developers and architects.
She/he should also have a demonstrated ability to think structured about business, product, and technical challenges. As an AWS solution architect, you will enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones, so you can make strong contributions to deep architecture discussions.
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
Requirements
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
Why work for us?
Our team inspires progress in each other and in our customers through our relentless pursuit of excellence; you will work with leaders who promote learning and personal development.
AllCloud is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics or any other basis forbidden under federal, provincial, or local law.
