Cloud Architect w/AWS Implementation experience

Company: Paylocity
Location: Schaumburg
Posted on: March 16, 2023

Job Description:

Job Description Description: Cloud Architect is are members of our product teams, responsible for creating, enhancing, and supporting common features. Working side-by-side with Product Owners, Software Test Engineers, and Business Stakeholders, they are actively involved in the complete software development life cycle in an agile environment including technical design, hands-on coding, unit testing, integration testing, performance tuning, maintenance, test automation, deploys and upgrades. Are you the teammate we are looking for? Who you are: Engineering is the function that applies principles and techniques of engineering, mathematics, and computer/data science to the design, development, and testing of applications. The Product & Technology engineering family consists of software development, testing, database, devops, virtualization & network. Enthusiastic about developing the best software available and providing the ultimate customer experience An advocate for continuous improvement of our software development process Interested in staying current by applying new technologies Able to work in a collaborative environment with a willingness to share your ideas Able to work independently on modules and complete tasks with high quality and contribute to high velocity, but unafraid to seek out suggestions from other team members Excited to work on cutting-edge technology During the first six months, you will: Demonstrate a high level of depth in a particular domain Take on a leading role in discovery, design and implementation for major systems that involve cross-team dependencies Routinely and consistently push the team forward through design, complex problems, and ultimately delivering value to our clients Evangelize and gain team alignment with organization-wide technical strategies and best practices Work in systems that have significant consequences of failure, a high degree of ambiguity, or to a standard of quality well exceeding that of the current system Make technology choices for components needed as part of an existing larger architecture or framework. Solicit and provide feedback via decision-making frameworks from across the organization asking probing, insightful questions and raising awareness of any unintended impact or dependencies within their area of expertise. Own the overall health and engineering quality of a domain Be a technical subject matter expert for a domain Initiate and lead cross-team collaboration Required Experience: * Bachelor's Degree in a Computer Science, Engineering, Technology related field or equivalent experience * Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certifications, especially AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional) highly desired * Must be advanced in building large-scale cloud architectures, to include: * Migrating large-scale applications to AWS * Finding high-level seams in multiple large applications to migrate from a monolith to micro-services in the cloud * Migrating .NET applications to container-based/serverless architectures is a plus * Designing and implementing reusable deployment pipelines for multiple feature teams * Designing and implementing disaster recovery/resiliency strategies for cloud workflows * Deep expertise in multiple cloud offerings, including but not limited to: * Containers in Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) * Managed ElasticSearch in AWS * Event streaming via Kafka or Amazon Kenisis Data Streams (KDS) * Messaging via Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), serverless via lambdas * Data Storage offerings such as Amazon Redshift, AWS Aurora, AWS Relational Database Service (RDS), or graph databases such as Neptune * Experience with managing Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and cloud-based networking to include Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and other methods of connectivity with on-premises data centers * Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM)/cloud security, governance and compliance, including experience with control tower and guard duty a plus * Understanding of cloud spend governance and control a plus * Measuring, monitoring, and alerting on customer experience for multiple, mission-critical cloud-based applications at heavy load * Preferably has at least 7+ years hands-on experience and is a SME in areas of full-stack web development, with experience in Client-Side Programming (HTML, JavaScript, CSS), and SQL * Must be advanced in object-oriented design and development and unit-testing, RESTful Web Services and web pages using C# .NET Core and Full Framework or similar technologies * Should be well-versed with Enterprise Architecture and developer tools, including advanced troubleshooting and debugging of unknown systems and refactoring * A solid understanding of network and infrastructure is preferred * Must be able to work effectively in an agile environment * Must be effective and creative in problem solving * Able to work on off-hours and weekends as the need ar by Jobble

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