Solution Architect (Delivery, AWS, Remote)

Job Overview

ClearScale is looking for a hands-on Solution Architect (SA) to participate in various custom solution and product development projects. Most of the projects led by ClearScale are AWS-centric. You will become a part of the distributed engineering team, responsible for preparing infrastructure, design solution architecture, leverage a full cycle of solution engineering, workload optimization, and operational support.

Responsibilities

• Lead sessions with business and technical experts to deeply understand their needs, solicit and document requirements.
• Consult and advise engineers, architects and executives, help define the right choice of technology stack for the solution of business problems.
• Create SOWs and/or provide a structured and complete informational background to the engineering team.
• Design and articulate major aspects of highly-scalable, reliable, and performant technical software solutions that leverage AWS cloud platform to automate business solutions.
• Handle potential trade-offs occurring during the implementation phase, make decisions and suggest the right course of action, establish patterns.
• Handle the strategic vision, align roadmaps and requirements. Build and maintain technical trusted advisor relationships with all levels in an organization, from technical experts to senior executives.
• Accelerate innovation by detecting high-impact, repeatable solutions for enterprises, iteratively deploying them and representing ClearScale capabilities in AWS Cloud Solutions to customers and the community.
• Authorship of technical publications including blog entries, case studies and ebooks.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering/scientific field or 5+ years of designing and developing services or applications within an organization.
• 3+ years consulting experience and track record of helping customers with their needs or comparable experience working with internal customers in a product company.
• Understanding fundamentals of different project management methodologies and frameworks (covering Agile, Lean Development, classical waterfall) applicable for custom software engineering.
• 5+ years experience building enterprise software solutions.
• 3+ years hands-on experience working with AWS cloud platform.
• Expertise in core AWS services (i.e. network, compute, storage, database, security, management and governance).
• Experience designing and implementing modern cloud-based applications using event-driven and NoSQL technologies (e.g. Lambda, Kafka, Kinesis, DynamoDB, S3, ActiveMQ, SQS, EventBridge, Redis/Memcached).
• Experience with containerised environments and/or serverless applications, understanding of architecture patterns, area of applicability, restrictions and typical problems.
• Experience building fault-tolerant and no-downtime distributed cloud systems.
• Experience using and adapting to new technologies.
• Comfort with assuming high-profile leadership roles in demanding, highly-visible customer situations.
• Strong listening, written and oral communications skills in English.

Would be a plus

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification or ability to acquire it in 3 months.
• Experience with enterprise workloads migration to AWS platform.
• Experience working with secured data (e.g. PHI, classified data).
• Deep understanding of column, key-value, document or graph databases.
• Experience giving public technical presentations.

You’ll be a great fit if:

• You love being a part of a dynamic, and agile team that encourages you to learn and grow.
• You desire to work with some of the world’s top brands.
• You love finding solutions to interesting problems and figuring out how things work.
• You welcome having autonomy with complex tasks.
• You are passionate about using your experience and expertise to inspire the team.

Company offers

• High compensation paid every two weeks in USD.
• Completely REMOTE work: they trust their employees to work from anywhere they please.
• Flexible schedule consisting of 40 hours per week, Slack and Zoom for communication.
• Bureaucracy-free environment.
• They adore change-makers and creators so you'll be able to make influence to our processes.
• Highly skilled project teams consisting of 3-5 members (senior level professionals).
• Wise projects rotation.
• Paid AWS certifications.