AWS Senior Solutions Architect

Responsibilities
You are expected to be a subject matter expert on AWS services, tools and best practices. You will answer questions on various cloud-native technologies and AWS services, and you will provide recommendations on what service to use and when. As such, you should have extensive hands-on experience with a variety of AWS services, their limitations and alternate (non-AWS) solutions that might serve better in particular situations. You will be participating in pre-sales activities, helping with RFPs and you will be heavy client facing.

Engage with clients to gather requirements and understand their vision
Recommend solutions around AWS technologies
Create roadmaps and estimates
Lead technical discussions during sales call
Create new service offerings based on innovative solutions
Own and aggressively drive forward specific areas of technology architecture. Provide architectural solutions/designs to project execution teams for implementation.
Provide architectural assessments, strategies, and roadmaps for one or more technology domains.
Lead projects within architecture. Work with Product Owner/Business Analysts to understand functional requirements and interact with other cross-functional teams to architect, design, develop, test, and release features.
Mentor and provide architectural guidance to multiple teams building innovative applications.
Drive common vision, practices and capabilities across teams.
Engage with business stakeholders to understand required capabilities, integrating business knowledge with technical solutions
Engage with Technical Architects and technical staff to determine the most appropriate technical strategy and designs to meet business needs
Demonstrate broad solutions technical leadership, impacting significant technical direction, exerting influence outside of the immediate team and driving change
Qualifications
In this role, we are looking for someone with:

Proven track record of leadership roles delivering solutions within defined timeframes - required.
Demonstrated success in performing work and managing complex and/or large consulting projects - required.
Fluent and current on architecture trends with an eye on market/technical conditions and future direction - required.
Deep Cloud-Native Services Experience - required.
End-to-end solution expertise across various tiers of enterprise architecture - required.
Deep experience of AWS services related to compute, networking, storage, security and database - required.
Demonstrated experience working with the C-level/Senior leadership at medium or large enterprises - required.
Extensive experience with writing scripts-terraform/cloudformation - required.
Developing applications utilizing programming languages like Java, Node, Python, etc. - required.
AWS native tools

Familiarity with AWS products including compute, storage, database, analytics, networking, developer tools, management tools, security, and enterprise applications.

Tools:

EC2, EKS, ECS, Fargate
RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift
Amazon EMR 
Kafka
AWS Directory Service
AWS IAM Identity Center
AWS Certificate and Key Management

AWS Networking

Advanced technical skills and experience designing and implementing AWS and hybrid IT network architectures at scale. As a networking specialist, candidate will design a secure, scalable, and highly available network infrastructure on AWS while addressing requirements like network security, hybrid IT connectivity, network integration with other AWS services, routing techniques, and network troubleshooting.

Tools:

AWS—VPC, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink
Route 53, CloudFront, ELB/ALB
Security/Compliance

AWS Securing data + workloads

Tools:

Alert Logic managed detection and response offerings
Splunk logging and monitoring
AWS—CloudTrail, S3, EC2, IAM, AWS-deployed containers
AWS foundation components 

AWS Foundation Components

Ability to design and develop foundational components on AWS using Terraform and/or Cloudformation

Preferred Skills and Education:

Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field
AWS Certifications