Description
Cloud Architect - Daily Rate Contract - Dublin
Key Responsibilities
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Architect AWS based solutions for cloud migration of custom developed applications.
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Automate provisioning of both cloud based infrastructure and application deployment/configuration to support the development organization.
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Introduce a configuration management strategy to enable rapid deployment of new stacks and align to firmwide approaches.
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Develop Cloud Native Architectures as part of re-architecting existing workloads
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Identify and adopt best practices, architectural solution patterns, new technologies to address current and future needs, and cloud based cost management strategies.
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Communicate architectural information to non-technical audiences
Qualifications
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2-4+ year hands-on experience with a diverse set of Amazon Web Services (compute, storage, network, security, administration, application services, databases).
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3+ years architecting experience with Microsoft Windows (2008+) based solutions (custom development and/or Windows packages)
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2+ years architecting experience with Windows based services such as Active Directory, Service Bus, or similar.
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1+ years Configuration Management Automation (Chef, Ansible, Puppet, SaltStack)/Infrastructure as Code.
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Solution architecture experience migrating both custom built and enterprise apps to AWS, including hybrid architectures (on-prem + cloud)
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Experience designing API based service architectures (MicroServices/SOA), and associated API standards (REST, SOAP, JSON, etc )
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Experience in security based architecture and solutioning to include the use of Security Groups, NACLs, encryption, authentication/authorization
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Experience with data retention, snapshots, and backups
Preferred Qualifications
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2+ Years Azure experience (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
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AWS Certified Solution Architect - Professional or Associate Level
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Experience and/or demonstrated interest in VPC, CLI, EC2, ELB, RDS, CloudSearch, DynamoDB, CloudWatch Alarms, CloudTrail
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Experience with IAM Roles, Instance MetaData, and User Data a strong plus
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Experience with Search (eg ElasticSearch and/or SOLR)
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Experience or interest in mobile based architectures
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Familiarity with either Python, and/or Powershell Scripting languages
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Foundational knowledge of CI environments for building, testing, and deploying releases
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Active in technical communities, such as AWS, DevOps, or Azure Meetups
* 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.