Cloud Architect

Position Summary

Effectual Cloud Architects are responsible for technical leadership of Professional Services projects. They partner with Effectual’s Engagement Managers (EMs) to deliver an exceptional customer and delivery team experience. Effectual Cloud Architects are “Brand Ambassadors” and are expected to demonstrate Effectual’s experience and expertise through the delivery of high-quality, leading-practice solutions to customers.

A Glimpse into the Daily Routine of a Cloud Architect

Cloud Architects lead delivery teams. On a given day, you may be asked to:

• Design and document a system in AWS to meet customer needs and requirements.
• Meet with a customer or internal team member to troubleshoot, educate, and unblock implementation progress.
• Partner with an Engagement Manager to craft customer communication.
• Gather requirements, document current state, and educate customers on your solution approach.
• Jump on a pre-sales call to demonstrate Effectual’s expertise and experience to a potential customer.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Championing technical excellence by:
  • Driving the implementation of leading practice architecture for assigned clients.
  • Conducting cost-benefit and risk-reward analyses
  • Designing solutions, development and deployment plans, and high-level solution validation processes for execution by delivery teams
  • Being accountable for the overall technical success of client projects
  • Working with technology management to refine project management processes to continually improve technical delivery efficacy.
  • Assisting in prioritizing and sequencing infrastructure projects, supporting project work breakdown activities, helping to remove roadblocks, and collaboratively resolving disagreements related to solution design.
• Fostering continual learning and collaboration by:
  • Serving as a mentor to team members around leading practices
  • Educating clients on solution rationale and leading practices
  • Building consensus amongst all technical stakeholders
• Supporting rigorous project governance and execution through:
  • Meeting with team members daily to review progress.
  • Challenging team members on technical solution approaches and holding them accountable for implementation success.
  • Submitting time on assigned projects, daily.
• Supporting project delivery team members by:
  • Always operating with transparency
  • Being responsive to requests from team members for information
  • Communicating working preferences and understanding the working preferences of others to help develop a high-performing team that operates with respect, effectiveness, and efficiency.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of continual, prior experience working as a Solution Architect consisting, in parallel, of at least:
  • 3+ years architecting AWS infrastructure.
  • 3+ years building AWS infrastructure, including at least:
    • 1+ year of infrastructure as code experience (Terraform preferred)
    • 1+ year of DevOps toolchain experience (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, AWS Code* Suite)
  • At least one (1) AWS Professional certification
  • Strong working knowledge of leading AWS cloud security practices
  • Proficient in developing Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform / AWS CloudFormation)
  • Proficient in coding configuration management tooling (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
  • Proficient in at least one or more programming / scripting languages (e.g., Python, Java, Node, etc.)
  • Demonstrable knowledge of Agile and Waterfall SDLC methodologies
  • Ability to work with multiple clients, in parallel.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Exceptional communication and time management

Nice-to-Have Skills and Experience

• Additional AWS certifications (e.g., Developer Associate, SysOps Administrator Associate, Solution Architect Associate, etc.)
• Prior management experience is helpful, even though this is an individual contributor role.
• Container development
• Container orchestration using platforms such as Kubernetes, Docker, AWS EKS, etc.
• Implementing static and dynamic code analysis tools within CI/CD pipelines
• Use code analysis tools such as AWS X-Ray, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, etc.
• Ability to work Eastern Standard Time Zone schedule but support customers in different regions

Company Offered Benefits

Full-time employees are eligible to participate in our employee benefit programs:

• Medical, dental, and vision health insurances,
• Short term disability, long term disability and life insurances,
• 401k with Company match
• Paid time off (PTO) (120 hours PTO that accrue over one year)
• Paid time off for major holidays (14 days per year)
• These and any other employee benefit offerings are subject to management’s discretion and may change at any time.