Cloud Architect (AWS)

• Take ownership of cloud optimization solution; 
• Design and implement DevOps processes: such as continuous integration and delivery, automated testing, and deployment automation, to accelerate software delivery and improve quality.
• Infrastructure management: designs and manages cloud-based infrastructure using tools such as AWS, (optionaly: GCP), to ensure scalability, high availability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Automation: responsible for automating manual processes across the software development lifecycle to improve efficiency, consistency, and reliability.
• Performance optimization: analyzes system performance and identifies opportunities for optimization, such as load balancing, caching, and database tuning.
• Security and compliance: ensures that the DevOps processes and infrastructure meet security and compliance standards.
• Team management: leads and manages a team of DevOps Engineers, providing technical guidance, mentoring, and coaching to ensure the team’s success.
• Collaboration: collaborates with other teams, such as development, QA, and operations, to ensure smooth integration and alignment of processes and goals.
• Continuous improvement: responsible for continuously improving DevOps processes, infrastructure, and tools to achieve higher efficiency, quality, and scalability.

Technical Skills:

• Knowledge of AWS, strong experience in deploying HA solutions in AWS
• Knowledge of Containers – Docker/Kubernetes
• Knowledge of Infrastructure provisioning technologies – Terraform, CloudFormation
• Expert in modern scripting languages (Python, Ruby, Go)
• Experience in Git/Github/Bitbucket/GitLab
• Experience with Product Owner Role
• Background as a Software, Infrastructure or as System engineer
• Experience in Agile practices (Scrum, Kanban)
• Strong understanding of system/software architecture patterns
• Knowledge of design and implementation of resilience patterns, cloud-native patterns, distributed systems patterns, regional failover patterns
• Profound knowledge of Software development and delivery processes and frameworks

Soft Skills:

• Team organization skills, ability to take over technical manager/product owner role
• Ability to drive initiatives, advocate technology and practices, socialize ideas
• Ability to drive and lead by example implementation of POC, RnD types of products