Job Title: AWS Infrastructure Solution architect
Location: Houston TX and Face To Face interview.
Contract: Long-Term, 1+ year contract engagement
Required Skills & Experience
- AWS Infrastructure Architect will work as part of a highly technical team of professionals responsible for all Cloud architectural design, development, and deployment of cost-effective and sustainable infrastructures to meet business requirements.
- Strong organizational skills, business acumen, technical expertise, and attention to detail are essential in this role.
- The Infrastructure Architect is also responsible for collaborating in cross-functional design and planning activities to ensure applications and services requirements are identified, documented and supported.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Architect innovative solutions built on AWS best practices that are scalable, reliable, and secure.
- Design and Implement AWS architectures and environments* Play a key role in migrating and transforming legacy solutions to the Cloud
- Design native Cloud Infrastructure Architectures and modernize applications running on AWS· Responsible for providing a secure, reliable, and agile cloud environment to MRO business.·
- Architect, build, and manage accounts and services in AWS using Control Tower and Service Catalog products.
- Manage the demand and the implementation of planned and emergency changes according to defined change control methodology and strategy.
Qualifications·
- Hands-on experience in AWS cloud platforms.·
- Hands-on experience of Control Tower, AWS CloudWatch, AWS Guard duty, AWS cloud trail, AWS Config, AWS Lambda, Trusted advisor, AWS Organizations, Transit Gateway Service, AWS SSO, and AWS Security services.·
- Extensive experience with different AWS services (EC2, IAM, Route53, SSM, S3, EFS, EBS, ELB, EKS, ECS, Lambda, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, SQS, SNS, RDS, Cloud Formation, CloudFront, DynamoDB, Athena, Kinesis, etc.)·
- Knowledge in infrastructure operations, incident management, problem management, configuration management, and change management processes.
- Experience with application discovery, preferably with tools like Cloudscape, to discover application configurations, databases, filesystems, and application dependencies.
- Hands-on experience in migrating applications to cloud leveraging proven tools and processes, including migration, implementation, cutover, and rollback plans and execution.
- Experience Implement Security best practices as per the cloud security best practices and NIST guidelines.
- Automate processes to avoid repeated manual activities.·
- Handle users' escalation/concerns on a day-to-day basis.
- Ready to take ownership of incidents/requests/problems assigned to the queue in Service Now·
- Good communication skills and ability to demonstrate technical issues/requirements precisely.
- Experience leveraging Infrastructure as code to deploy solutions (Cloud Formation, Terraform, GitHub, etc.)
- Knowledge in infrastructure operations, incident management, problem management, configuration management, and change management processes.
- Strong organizational skills, business acumen, technical expertise, and attention to detail are essential in this role.
- Hands-on experience with AWS Billing, Budgets, Savings Plans, Reserve Instances, Cost and Usage reports, and Marketplace transactions.
Required Education And Certification
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or 3+ years relevant experience.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Certification (must have)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional Certification (preferred)
Preferred To Have Strong Attributes In The Following
- Be able to understand existing workloads and look for ways to improve processes.
- Be able to lead initiatives.
- Work without direction -- be a self starter, bring ideas to the table.
- Be influential with recommendations.
What You Will Be Doing
As the AWS Solutions Architect working for this large Oil and Gas company located in Houston, TX, you will work as part of a highly technical team of professionals responsible for all Cloud architectural design, development, and deployment of cost-effective and sustainable infrastructures to meet business requirements. Will work onsite at the corporate headquarters building in Houston at least 3 days/week, with Fridays and one other day remotely. Must be a local candidate, or have a very compelling reason why relocating to Houston is a good option. Additionally, you will:
- Design and Implement core IaaS AWS architectures and services (accounts, networks, security, compute, storage, resource tagging, cost tracking, etc.)
- Architect innovative solutions built on AWS best practices that are scalable, reliable, cost effective and secure.
- Determine cost and best path for migrating and transforming legacy solutions to the Cloud.
- Analyze, optimize, and implement cost optimization actions across our AWS environment.
- Work with our technical teams to design and implement new services in the most cost-efficient way.
- Architect, build, and manage accounts and services in AWS using Control Tower and Service Catalog products.
The AWS Solutions Architect is also responsible for collaborating in cross-functional design and planning activities to ensure applications and services requirements are identified, documented and supported
