Cloud Architect

Dublin  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Cloud Architect - Daily Rate Contract - Dublin

I am currently seeking a Cloud Architect to join my client's expanding Dublin based team.

This a key role and a ground floor opportunity to advance your application portfolio to the cloud and advance the firm's capabilities to deliver repeatable, consistent, and performant architectures through automation practices. As a leader in the architecture function, you will be comfortable working in a fast paced agile environment and will have the ability to work effectively in a cross-disciplinary team. The successful candidate will be given great latitude to flex skill set and introduce innovative change to achieve the objectives, those being application migration and cloud native solutions. This is a ground floor opportunity with a rock solid private firm.

Key Responsibilities

  • Architect AWS based solutions for cloud migration of custom developed applications.
  • Automate provisioning of both cloud based infrastructure and application deployment/configuration to support the development organization.
  • Introduce a configuration management strategy to enable rapid deployment of new stacks and align to firm-wide approaches.
  • Develop Cloud Native Architectures as part of re-architecting existing workloads
  • Identify and adopt best practices, architectural solution patterns, new technologies to address current and future needs, and cloud based cost management strategies.
  • Communicate architectural information to non-technical audiences
  • 2-4+ year hands-on experience with a diverse set of Amazon Web Services (compute, storage, network, security, administration, application services, databases).
  • 3+ years architecting experience with Microsoft Windows (2008+) based solutions (custom development and/or Windows packages)
  • 2+ years architecting experience with Windows based services such as Active Directory, Service Bus, or similar.
  • 1+ years Configuration Management Automation (Chef, Ansible, Puppet, SaltStack)/Infrastructure as Code.
  • Solution architecture experience migrating both custom built and enterprise apps to AWS, including hybrid architectures (on-prem + cloud)
  • Experience designing API based service architectures (MicroServices/SOA), and associated API standards (REST, SOAP, JSON, etc )
  • Experience in security based architecture and solutioning to include the use of Security Groups, NACLs, encryption, authentication/authorization
  • Experience with data retention, snapshots, and backups

* Live Role - Apply for immediate consideration

If you are interested in this position please forward your CV to (see below) or call Suzanne Brophy for further information.

Start date
n.a
From
Stelfox Ltd
Published at
18.10.2015
Project ID:
1002837
Contract type
Freelance
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