Principal Architect, Networking

Summary

Join Caylent's growing Cloud Architecture & Engineering team as a Principal Architect and work alongside Engineers, Delivery Managers, and Engagement Managers to deliver AWS cloud solutions across our diverse customer base.

Requirements

• 5+ Years of experience working as a Network Architect for Enterprise organizations in a consulting capacity
• Ability to communicate technical objectives and solutions clearly to clients while establishing and cultivating a professional relationship
• Demonstrated critical and strategic thinking about business, products, and technical challenges to stakeholders
• Strong expertise building networks and using the following technologies: AWS Cloud WAN, AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Direct Connect Gateway, MPLS, BGP, Site-2-Site VPN, IPAM, CDN
• Familiarity with modern Firewalls e.g. Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortigate
• Strong hands-on AWS Environment and Serverless Environment
• Experience Designing and implementing inter and intra-region high availability solutions
• Experience implementing IaC in AWS
• Great verbal and written communication skills
• Enthusiasm for working in a startup environment and the ability to be cross-functional
• Possess a natural curiosity and excitement for learning new technology

Responsibilities

• Be a thought leader in crafting solutions, reference architectures, and best practices
• Engage in a highly collaborative team environment where your expertise is required to propose solutions to lay the foundations for cloud architecture, scaling, development opportunities, cost savings, and vulnerabilities
• Design, develop, and integrate highly complex DevOps pipelines, including build automation, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), security, monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Kickoff new client engagements
• Take on work already in-line with projects and deliverables and research new projects (R&D)
• Develop long range plans with customer to adopt cloud best practices
• Ensure high quality of project delivery

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in some of the following: Migrations, CICD, IaC (Terraform, Cloudformation, AWS CDK, Pulumi, etc), Scripting, Containers (Kubernetes, Docker, ECS, Fargate, etc), Cloud Security Best Practices
• Experience working on agile projects
• Incident, release, problem, and change management processes

Benefits

• Medical Insurance for you and eligible dependents
• 401k plan with company match up to 4% and immediate vesting
• Competitive phantom equity
• Phantom Unit Plan
• Company issued laptop
• Dental and Vision insurance
• Term Disability Insurance
• Term Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Equipment & Office Stipend
• Annual stipend for Learning and Development
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• 10 Paid Holidays