Lead AWS Architect

Spencer Stuart is one of the world’s leading executive search consulting firms, placing C-Level and Board of Directors in the most successful companies across the globe.

All of the benefits of an early stage startup without the long hours and risk of evaporating funding. You have the opportunity to join a small team and drive the firm-wide strategic migration to the AWS cloud. You are a passionate visionary and technologist, and will be given great latitude to flex your skillset to introduce innovative change while benefiting from the leadership of your manager, an AWS Certified Architect. As an automation leader, your efforts will advance the firm’s capabilities to deliver repeatable, consistent, and performant architectures. This is a ground floor opportunity with a rock solid private firm.

* Architect AWS solutions for cloud migration of custom and enterprise applications. * Automate provisioning of cloud infrastructure to support the development organizations. * Design a configuration management strategy to enable rapid deployment of new stacks. * Develop Cloud Native Architectures as part of rearchitecting existing workloads * Identify and adopt best practices, architectural solution patterns, new technologies to address current and future needs, and cloud based cost management strategies. * Provide leadership in DevOps practices / CALMS principles * Communicate architectural information to non-technical audiences

* 3-5+ year hands-on experience with a diverse set of Amazon Web Services (compute, storage, network, security, administration, application services, databases). * 2-3+ years Configuration Management Automation (Chef, Ansible, Puppet, SaltStack) / Infrastructure as Code. * Preference for 1+ year experience (or equivalent knowledge) of mobile based architectures * Solution architecture experience migrating both custom built and enterprise apps to AWS. * Experienced with Linux distros and Windows (2008/2012) based workloads * Experience designing API based service architectures (MicroServices / SOA), and associated API standards (REST, SOAP, JSON, etc…) * Experience in security based architecture and solutioning to include the use of Security Groups, NACLs, encryption, authentication/authorization * Best practices on cloud adoption including Tagging and Resource Management * Experience solving data retention, snapshots, and backups on AWS * Foundation in DevOps skillset and cultural disposition **Preferred Qualifications** * AWS Certified * Experience and/or demonstrated interest in VPC, CloudFormation, CLI, EC2, ELB, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFront, Route53, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch Alarms, CloudTrail * Experience with IAM Roles, Instance MetaData, and User Data * Experience with Search (e.g. ElasticSearch and/or SOLR) * Familiarity with either Python, and/or Powershell scripting languages * Build and maintain a CI environment for building, testing, and deploying releases * Modern CI technology (Git, Jenkins, etc…) * Working knowledge of on-prem infrastructure services, including compute, storage, and network. * VMWare 5.x architecture experience with large deployments including planning, building, and deploying workloads * Publications relating to AWS accessible on Slideshare, or similar * Active in technical communities, such as AWS or DevOps Meetups