DevOps Architect - Terraform - Remote

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation. DevOps Architect The DevOps Architect will serve as a technical thought leader and SME for our Cloud/DevOps ecosystem of partners, customers, and service providers. You will assist in leading a team that builds automation and services in order to make operating a massive large scale distributed system simple. You will make the development software workflow and systems management integrate together and achieve their objectives of reliability and scalability. 

Roles and Responsibilities

Architect, design, and implement cloud-based solutions for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform

Support of local operations and development teams in their work on databases, back-end software development, front-end websites, and other mission-critical systems

Lead architecture with containerization related management stacks like Kubernetes, Docker, Swarm.

Lead and take part in cloud readiness assessments, workshops, roadmap, and application modernization discussions

Lead cloud architecting sessions with business and technology owners

Develop automated solutions to monitor and support our software development and release processes

Provide systems support in and out of office hours

Travel as needed

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field

Strong project and product management experience

Background in DevOps, Software Development, Site Reliability, or Systems Engineering

Experience with containerization related management stacks like Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes.

Strong understanding of microservice architectures, principles and patterns.

5+ years of relevant, engineering experience

Public Cloud infrastructure expertise: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Formation, Elastic Beanstalk, Azure, Rackspace, Google Cloud Platform

Experience with configuration management and continuous deployment

Experience working with multiple data centers and servers

Experience with *NIX system administration, Java, Linux/Unix, Perl and Python

Linux System Administration, ideally CentOS, RedHat or SuSE

Apache, PHP, Java and MySQL expertise

Good familiarity with TCP/IP protocols and applications

Great communication skills coupled with a strong desire for personal development and learning

Good understanding of distributed systems

Strong verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated technical leadership

Client relationship skills and experience managing vendors

Desired Skills

Experience with Nagios, Nginx or Cisco software environments

Familiar with deployment tools such as Vagrant, Chef or Puppet, Saltstack, and Ansible.

Understanding of scaling technologies and solutions

Security, penetration testing and threat detection tools

Understanding of servers, storage, and networking roles