AWS Architect Houston, TX paddr

Role: AWS Architect

Location: Houston, TX

Interview: Phone/Skype

Emp Type: Permanent Job

Responsibilities:

• Understand the current application infrastructure and suggest changes to it.
• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance.
• Migrate our infrastructure with zero downtime to a highly available, scalable one.
• Set up a monitoring stack.
• Define service capacity planning strategies.
• Implement the application’s CI/CD pipeline using the AWS CI/CD stack.
• Write infrastructure as code using CloudFormation or similar.
• Knowledge of x86, Windows, VM, and Linux is a plus.

Skills:

• Experience with the core AWS services, plus the specifics mentioned in this job description.
• Good background in Linux/Unix administration.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in Kafka and Chef.
• Strong notions of security best practices (e.g., using IAM Roles, KMS, etc.).
• Experience with monitoring solutions such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, and the ELK stack.
• Previous exposure to large-scale systems design.
• Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems.
• Knowledge of writing infrastructure as code (IaC) using CloudFormation or Terraform.
• Experience with building or maintaining cloud-native applications.
• Past experience with serverless approaches using AWS Lambda is a plus (e.g., the Serverless Application Model - AWS SAM).