Job Overview
InfoShare Systems Inc is seeking a senior technologist with extensive experience in AWS Cloud. This role will focus on researching and identifying AWS service resiliency characteristics and failure modes, designing experimentation to validate its resiliency behavior, surfacing any potential weakness or issues, working with AWS engineers in clarifying and engineering to resolve those weaknesses or issues, and working with product engineering team to solution for the required level of resiliency.
The role will require that the individual be familiar with current and emerging cloud technologies, tools, and system architectures. The role requires an individual who can work closely with application developers, architects, and infrastructure engineers to deliver resilient solution in a team-oriented environment. The expectation is that this candidate will work with other principal technologists in the organization to develop a resiliency model for supporting our applications business and technical requirements as we establish a significant presence within the cloud landscape.
Responsibilities
- Provide mentoring, knowledge transfer, and assist in training for other team members
- Understand business goals and drivers, and translate those into an appropriate technical solution
- Identify explicit/implicit technical assumption and devise corresponding experimentation to validate the key resiliency assumptions
- Participate in the definition of high availability and resilience standard, and best practices for services from AWS and other internal/external providers
- Participate in the assessment of service readiness for tiered business application and service adoption
- Participate in the establishment of appropriate monitoring and alerting of service events related to performance, scalability, availability, and reliability
- Contribute to cloud strategy discussions, and decisions on overall cloud design and best approach for implementing cloud solutions
- Focus on continuous improvement practices as required to meet system resiliency imperatives
- Act as a liaison with other architects (security, infrastructure, data, etc.) and with delivery teams working primarily within an Agile (Scrum) methodology
- Establish relationships with IT leaders, architects, and technical specialists in advancing proposed resiliency solutions
- Support the adoption of DevOps methodology and Agile project management
- Communicate complicated technical concepts effectively to a broad group of stakeholders
- Engage with Technical Architects and technical staff to determine the most appropriate technical strategy and designs to meet business needs
- Demonstrate broad solutions technical leadership, impact significant technical direction, exert influence outside of the immediate team, and drive change
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Minimum of seven years of experience in the design and implementation of distributed applications
- Minimum of five years of experience in networking, infrastructure, and database architecture
- Minimum of five years of experience in highly available architecture and solution implementation
- Minimum of two years of experience in architecting and delivering AWS solutions
- Minimum of five years of experience with industry patterns, methodologies, and techniques across the disaster recovery disciplines
- Proficient in authoring, editing, and presenting technical documents
- Strong written and oral communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical staff