Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Onsite | 40% onsite 60 % remote - must be located in SC
Duration: Long-term renewable contract
Location: Greenville, SC
Pay rate: Hourly
Job ID: 4976
This is a Full Time W2 position, no subcontracting or C2C.

Overview:
Develops leading edge cloud architectures and technologies to support the company and local DEVOPS Hubs Americas' product teams. Identifies emerging technologies with cloud providers (AWS, Azure) in order to build cloud Infrastructure as Code solutions with availability reaching 99.999% uptime. All solutions will be properly secure and reliably engineered. Provides monitoring and logging of applications/infrastructure

Responsibilities:
Day to Day responsibilities for this role:
- Maintain and operate framework that provides Guided Kubernetes (Kubernetes as a Service) solutions for customers.
- Troubleshoot cluster creation failure.
- Upgrade sub-components in preparing for overall KaaS quarterly upgrade using DevOps tools.
- Investigate issues through log analysis.
- Answer issues generated from ticket system.
- Build test Kubernetes clusters guided and manually.
- Suggest improvement based on repetitive issues. Verifying and updating technical and process documentation.
- Staying up to date on technology stack (cloud, logging solutions, HA clusters, monitoring solutions)
- Projects this role will work on: Product Excellence; Guided Kubernetes Cluster solution - AWS/Azure, Cloud Security, Maintenance of Departmental Application environments, Atlassian (JIRA/Confluence/BitBucket), Splunk, TSL/SS certificates, Bash script editing/creating. These projects would not necessarily be done simultaneously. They will typically work on 2 projects at a time.
Develop and maintain Cloud architectures for company product teams
Create and develop Kubernetes architecture and tools for product teams and as platforms
Evaluate and implement Kubernetes managed solutions from vendors (EKS, AKS)
Develop cluster creation/maintenance scripts (Infrastructure as code, Terraform, etc..)
Utilize version control of the Infrastructure as Code with strong understanding of branching and merging strategies (Bitbucket)
Deploy CI/CD pipeline utilization (Jenkins) for the creation of clusters
Enforce user management and role management (AWS, Azure) following Group standards
Perform and create cluster monitoring and infrastructure health reporting (Prometheus, Grafana)
Provide operational expertise to maintain Cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure (technical and budgetary)
Develop network controls (ingress/egress for internet/intranet access)
Maintain cluster security (key management, Vault)
Develop highly available, scalable clusters (scale out, scale up, multiple AZs)
Support cloud based databases (CockRoach) and message queue solutions (RabbitMQ)
Develop logging/monitoring solutions for applications and infrastructure (Splunk)
As a Knowledge expert, share information and vision via documentation and training of others
Interact with internal customers and development team to gather and define requirements and document architecture and approach
Work on several development initiatives concurrently and provide subject matter expertise on implementations and product customization
Define the visualization and realization of future technologies, which will support the complete process from development of concepts and vision to full production ready solutions, which can be integrated rapidly into the automotive environment
Serve as internal consultant to developers and engineers as needed, providing assistance in all phases of product life-cycle development

Qualifications:
BA/BS Degree in Business, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering preferred or the equivalent of 4 years professional IT related experience. MS degree (preferred).
5+ years of technical experience in Information Technology to include 2+ years of experience delivering Cloud Architectures (including deployments and operations)
3-5 years' experience: Cloud architectures (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, etc)
3-5 years' experience: Solution architect
3-5 years' experience: Operating systems administration and/or lead Developer in a microservice based product team
3-5 years' experience: Developer of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, YAML, shell scripts)
1-3 years' experience: Database Administration; SAP Basis Administration;
3-5 years' experience: Experience with container-based deployments using Docker, working with Docker images, Docker Hub and Docker registries
3-5 years' experience: At least one scripting language (Python, bash/korne shell, etc)
1-3 years' experience: Agile team processes and work environments
1-3 years' experience: Interface with REST Web Services and JSON/XML sufficient to support microservice developers
top 3 skills needed for this position:
- AWS Cloud Architecture (Certification Preferred (Associate or Professional Level)) OR AWS Developers Certification Preferred (Associate or Professional Level).
- Analytics Experience (Splunk, Grafana or a BI Platform).
Must have:
- Experience in AWS or Azure.
- Someone who is outgoing, and passionate about IT and especially cloud computing and how it can help the business.
- Ability to understand business needs and translates it to an IT framework.
- Ability to go on call in a rotation that requires one week on duty occurring about every 3-4 weeks.
Nice to have:
- Docker/Docker Swarm
- Jenkins
- Terraform
- Python programming
- Experience working in a large company (international if possible)

About our Company
DataSoft Technologies is a highly recognized provider of professional IT Consulting services in the US. Founded in 1994, DataSoft Technologies, Inc. provides staff augmentation services for Information Technology and Automotive Services. Our team member benefits include:
Paid Holidays/Paid Time Off (PTO)
Medical/Dental Insurance Group
Accident/Critical Illness Insurance
Life Insurance
401 (K)