Remote AWS Cloud Architect

Summary

JTSi is an IT & Engineering Services provider seeking a Senior Cloud Architect for their Professional Services team. The remote role involves helping customers make decisions on their cloud journey and collaborating with JTSI/AWS teams to help partners and customers learn and use AWS services. A minimum of 15 years of IT implementation experience, strong communication skills, and expertise in architecting, designing, and migrating applications on the AWS platform are required.

Requirements

• 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.)
• 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)

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• Work with engineering and support teams to convey partner and customer needs and feedback as input to technology roadmaps