Cloud Application Architect – AWS

We are urgently looking for "Cloud Application Architect - AWS" for one of the fastest growing "Cloud Engineering Company".

Job Overview:

Role: Cloud Application Architect - AWS

Experience: 12 - 15 Years

Type: Permanent

Work Mode: Remote

Role and Responsibilities:

• Helping customers architect scalable, highly available application solutions that leverage AWS services.
• Re-engineering and developing customer applications to be modern cloud native, microservices based apps
• Working as a technical leader alongside customer business, development, and infrastructure teams.
• Advising and implementing AWS best practices for modern cloud native apps.
• Working as both - cloud application development specialist and cloud solutions architect.
• Implementing DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration, and automated deployment in the Agile software development methodology.

Basic Skills and Qualifications

• 8+ years of IT experience in software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics experience
• 8+ years of application development and design experience.
• 3+ years of experience in design and development of cloud native, microservices based, containerized apps.
• Hands on programming skills of any 2 of the following: Java, .NET (C#), Python, Node.js, Ruby, C/C++, Scala.
• Deep hands-on experience of foundation AWS services - EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora PostgreSQL, Lambda, API Gateway, ELB, EKS, ECS, Fargate, EFS
• Hands on development skills with relational databases (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL) or NoSQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, DynamoDB).
• Agile software development and DevOps expert.
• Experience with unit or automated testing tools (e.g., Junit, TestNG)
• Ability to design and develop Infrastructure-as-Code templates using Terraform.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills and ability to work effectively in a client facing role.

Preferred Skills

• Kubernetes - View, manage, and debug Kubernetes resources in an existing Kubernetes Ability to understand Kubernetes architecture and it’s resources including but not limited to namespaces, deployments, pods, replicas, services, auto scaling, authentication, etc.
• DevOps - Understand and implement end to end DevOps practices and or GitOps designs for multi-account and multi-
• Experience with configuration management platforms like Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible
• Integration of AWS cloud services with on premise technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP etc.
• AWS Solutions Architect/Developer Certification