AWS Cloud Architect

Johnson Technology Systems • Remote (Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States) • 3w ago

Company Description

Established in 2003, JTSi is an IT & Engineering Services provider with years of documented experience in the Information Technology and Engineering services field. JTSi has a proven track record for successfully delivering mission-critical Professional IT Services to the Public Sector. JTSI SAP/ERP team delivers high-value business solutions to its clients by clearly understanding their core business problems. We deliver quality services at equitable rates and focus on constant improvement in all areas of our operation, with a strong commitment to meeting our Customers’ needs. We view ourselves more as a Business Partner than merely a consulting services provider. US Army ERP Services Contract award to JTSi for a ceiling value of $846M is one of the most prestigious awards of the time. At JTSi “Customer Is Always First” and partnering is our path to customer satisfaction - We do what we say. Visit us at www.jtsusa.com

Job Description

Role: AWS Cloud Architect.

Duration: 12 months+

Location: Remote Now – After pandemic stabilizes either in Picatinny, NJ or APG, MD or Ft. Belvoir, VA

Certification: CompTIA Security + certification is preferred.

Clearance: Interim or Active Secret clearance required

Job Description

As a Senior Cloud Architect in our Professional Services team, you will be an extended part of our customer’s technical teams. As an expert, you’ll help them make decisions on their cloud journey. This role combines thought leadership across the globe with cutting code, designing architectures, and helping our customers build system components as they move and build new applications in the cloud.

Qualifications

Required:

We Are Looking For Hands-on Architects Who Will

• Collaborate with JTSI/AWS teams to help partners and customers learn and use AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Simple DB/RDS databases, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), etc.

• Guide customers to ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services following the principles of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

• Define and deliver on-site technical engagements with partners and customers. This includes participating in on-site visits with prospective customers, understanding customer requirements, and proposing and delivering packaged offerings, and delivering custom solution engagements.

• Delivery Engagements include on-site projects proving the use of AWS services to support new distributed computing solutions that often span private cloud and public cloud services. Engagements will include migration of existing applications and development of new applications using AWS cloud services.

• Work with engineering and support teams to convey partner and customer needs and feedback as input to technology roadmaps. Share real world implementation challenges and recommend new capabilities that would simplify adoption and drive greater value from use of AWS cloud services. Our Consultants work with enterprise customers locally, regionally and potentially domestically. As such, Consultants will be required to travel to client locations to sell and deliver professional services as needed.

Basic Qualifications

• BS level technical degree or equivalent professional

• Customer facing skills to represent JTSI/AWS well within the customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management and risk mitigation

• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges

• Highly technical and analytical, possessing 15 or more years of IT implementation experience

• Proven experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies required • Strong experience in Architecting, designing and migrating applications on the AWS platform

• Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (eg. security, privacy, SOX, HIPPA etc.)

• Experience working directly with customers, partners or third-party developers

• Strong verbal and written communications skills and ability to lead effectively across organizations

• Ability to travel to client locations as needed (25-50%)

• Expertise in Large scale , high performance enterprise application deployment and Solution architecting on complex heterogeneous environments on AWS.

• Expertise in security solutions on AWS.

• Expertise in Infra capacity sizing, costing of AWS services to drive optimized solution architecture, leading to optimal infra investment vs performance and scale.

• Expertise in articulating architectural choices within various AWS services and solution methodologies. Expertise in AWS foundation services is a must ( EC2, RDS, S3, SNS)

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science or related technical field

• Demonstrated success as a Cloud Infrastructure architect or consultant working with various platforms

• Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability

• Cloud certifications

• Good exposure to Agile software development and DevOps practices such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration and automated deployment

Presenting at public events such as technology conferences, hackathons, blogging, writing on technical forums, etc.