AWS Cloud Engineer/Developer
Kaizen Analytix LLC, an analytics products and services company that gives clients unmatched speed to value through analytics solutions and actionable business insights, is seeking qualified candidates for a Solutions Architect experienced in designing applications, log analytics and monitoring solutions using ELK stack or Splunk. This role requires an estimated 35-40 hours/week commitment for 6-9 months with a possible extension. Responsibilities and requirements for this position are provided below.
The Solution Architect will have a mix of advanced technology and strategic business acumen. This role requires both broad and deep technical knowledge of Amazon Web Services, ELK stack and OpenSearch.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
Conducts fact-gathering sessions with users.
Consults with Technical Managers and Business Owners to identify and analyze technology needs and problems.
Participates in group application design activities.
Performs data flow diagramming and/or process modeling (code architecture).
Independently design, configure and implement various AWS modules.
Some development will be required for shared services and components or technically challenging areas where the skills of an architect are needed.
Providing senior management with process and design recommendations.
Architectural decision-making.
STRATEGY ALIGNMENT
Works with the other technical team members to continually improve implementation strategies, development standards and other departmental processes and documentation.
Provides technical assistance and mentoring to lower-level Software Engineers.
Communicates plans, status, and issues to management on a regular basis.
Adheres to department standards, policies, procedures, and industry best practices.
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
Mandatory to have AWS solution architect certification
Experienced in any kind of migration projects that involve migrating from one technology to a different technology.
4+ years of experience as a Cloud Engineer in a mid to large-size organization with AWS services.
Possess 4+ years of current solution architecture (implementation/consulting) experience and own each technical engagement and help ensure timely and successful delivery of value.
Experience architecting/implementing infrastructure solutions with specific recommendations on compute, load balancing, HA/DR, & storage architectures.
Require at least 2 years' experience on ELK stack and a good experience in setting up, configuring ELK stack.
Have good experience in setting up indices in ELK and setting up security roles and policies to enable role-based access control.
Good to have experience in creating/configuring Kibana dashboards
Must be aware of any IaC tools like Terraform, AWS CFT, AWS SDK etc.
Good understanding on SDLC, GitFlow and day-to-day developer duties.
Must be aware of CI/CD pipelines and well-versed in using Jenkins for creating required pipelines for CI/CD.
Has some experience with Amazon OpenSearch
Takes initiative and proposes solutions and workarounds; readiness to work through tough deadlines
Demonstrated Experience in OAuth, SAML, etc. for the various Cloud workloads.
Troubleshoot (AWS Cloud and other associated apps and tools) key customer implementation issues and demonstrate the ability to drive to a successful resolution.
Responsible for end-to-end Solution Design, Architecture, and AWS best practices to integrate with ecosystem and infrastructure.
Ability to partner with domain architects to develop the end-to-end solution architecture including application, infrastructure, data, integration, and security domains.
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