Job Description

Everforth ECS is seeking a Cloud Solution Architect to work remotely

ECS is looking for a Solution Architect who is passionate about automation, enterprise transformation, and continuously driving innovation. Strong candidates will have a desire to modernize existing architecture and establish innovative new architectures, while driving strategic initiatives that take advantage of modern approaches to technology, business delivery, and data.

The Solution Architect is responsible for designing sustainable cloud architectures in AWS and other Cloud Service Provides, while also supporting and building teams that will operate those architectures. They will play a strategic role in painting a vision while merging technical, business, and customer needs into achievable objectives and driving the completion of those objectives. As an expert in delivering technical projects, the Solutions Architect will identify challenges and improvements, then help a multi functional team solution and deliver those improvements.

Responsibilities:

• Independently applies a wide set of engineering disciplines for planning, design, analysis, coding, testing, roll-out and support of information systems architectures.
• Continuously optimizing AWS Cloud platform services across all integration points.
• Interact closely with key project stakeholders to design, plan and implement operationally sustainable solutions.
• Work closely with the technical team to deliver proposed designs.
• Provide thought and design leadership.
• Serve as a technical SME for cloud services, providers, and platforms.
• Lead solution architecting sessions evaluating trade offs between design, risk, and cost.
• Problem solve challenges as they arise.
• Adapt designs to new requirements or discoveries.
• Leverage data driven approach to continuous solution, organization, and workforce improvement.
• Optimizes performance across multiple teams by suggesting delivery process transformation towards evolving best practices based on each team and project context.

Salary Range: $150,000 - $200,000

General Description of Benefits

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree
• Minimum of 10 years of related experience including a broad background in various technology solutions, including:
  • Cloud Services
  • Infrastructure Automation
  • DevSecOps
  • Open Source Ecosystems
  • Application Programming
  • Service Oriented Architecture
  • Enterprise Architecture
• Demonstrates a deep working knowledge of all aspects of Cloud Development Platforms.
• Including: IT operations, Virtualization, Containerization, Networking, Storage, Disaster Recovery, Security Policy and Controls implementation, System Management, and Data Migration.
• Demonstrates expertise in enterprise solution design, SOA models and approaches to enterprise cloud solutions, and promotion of architecture principles along with conducting research in specific technology areas and being up-to-date with the latest of industry trends on application architectures.
• Possesses significant expertise in the existing cloud computing technology: public, private, and hybrid, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
• Demonstrates very good written and oral presentation skills and outstanding client-interaction skills.
• Thinks creatively and demonstrates the ability to work independently, or with a group, on complex tasks with little direction, supervision, and management oversight.
• Must successfully complete a stringent Background Investigation.
• U.S. Citizenship is a requirement.