Remote Principal Architect, Networking

Summary

Join Caylent, a cloud native services company, as a Principal Architect to lead our Cloud Architecture & Engineering team. You will work with customers, partners, and employees to drive business forward by crafting solutions, managing teams, and delivering AWS cloud solutions.

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

Benefits

• Pay in USD
• 100% remote work
• Generous holidays and flexible PTO
• Competitive phantom equity
• Paid for exams and certifications
• Peer bonus awards
• State of the art laptop and tools
• Equipment & Office Stipend
• Individual professional development plan
• Annual stipend for Learning and Development